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  1. These appear to be a recent ASOS introduction; sizes UK 6 - 12 and £56.00. The height of the rounded heel looks to be close to 4". Sleek looking - although the chain detail may not appeal, but is much more discreet than that on previous offerings. Now, this is a boot that I would wear!
  2. I'm sure you will remain OK for work - as long as you don't wear stilettos up a ladder. It is my birthday today so I am naturally feeling a little more vulnerable as yet another year passes, especially as the physical activities I have been carrying out in retirement (some 10 years now) progressively become a little more onerous. But, around the family, there is a steady demand for plumbing, electrics, joinery, etc etc - none of which was in my original contracts of employment ...!
  3. Are you referring to the potential time that your employment might last, or to the remaining time during which you expect to remain on the planet and fit for work? If the former, then (as Bubba says) you should not find it too hard to get alternative and suitably lucrative work.
  4. What do you mean by 'until'? 😁 I doubt that, as a political columnist and commentator, you will be offered much work. There are far too many around already!
  5. Elegant and properly-proportioned classic courts - very nice!
  6. Are you thinking of the New Zealander (in Christchurch, I think) who wore a man's suit jacket with a skirt and stilettos for work (in car sales?), and typically a dress and stilettos for socialising, seemingly with little or no adverse reaction? I can't think of his name but he has been absent for some time now.
  7. Puffer

    Cali World

    Twas ever thus, especially in the north east (and Scotland).
  8. Perhaps we only heard the 'for man' version in the UK, where we care more about correct use of language and so had something to discuss over the years! Interestingly, the official transcript is undecided whether the 'a' is included or not.
  9. I have heard and read otherwise, more than once, although I agree that there is some doubt. Armstrong has often been criticised for (apparently) saying 'for man' (which equates to 'mankind' and is therefore a tautology) - although one can forgive him in all the circumstances. If he had (correctly) said - and been clearly heard to have said - 'for a man', there would have been no need for comment over many years.
  10. Thus demonstrating the difference between 'a man's boot' and 'a male boot'. I suppose too that one could say about a heel-wearing man: 'one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind'. (A pity that Neil Armstrong spoiled such an apt quote by saying '... for man ...'.)
  11. If (and I repeat 'if') the existing rod could be removed (or indeed partially drilled out from the 'break end'), it should then give a hole that would take a new rod, maybe larger in diameter and certainly longer. The trick then would be to bore a corresponding hole in proper register in the mating section so that they could be accurately reunited. Not easy but might be worth a try. I wonder what diameter the existing rod is?
  12. I have done this on a heel thinner than Melrose's, inserting a 1/8" steel rod. There was no issue with strength or bending but getting everything true and in register was the problem, which is why I am doubtful of success.
  13. You could do this, but the main difficulty will be accurately drilling both pieces so that they are in exact register when re-joined, and with the two holes in the same vertical alignment. Nothing to lose by trying it!
  14. What a joy it is when something in brown or grey comes along! 😍
  15. I recall that TLSB made shoes for other outlets too, notably 'Cover Girl' (now also defunct, following the death of the proprietor), not far away in Islington. I bought a pair of sandals with 5" stiletto heels from CG in 1972; I think they cost about £10! Well-made in leather to my measurements, they were not as easy to walk in as I would have wished and were never worn outside the house. Now something of a collectors' item, I sold them a few years ago and I expect they are being worn and enjoyed somewhere - I hope so. CG regularly advertised shoes with 6" heels, for which there appeared to be a steady demand.
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