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Yes and no. It’s surprising how many people just exist in their own bubble. And of course shoes - and heels - are down at ground level, out of direct line of sight. Perhaps if he’d seen you at a distance and watched you approach over a period of 15 or 20 seconds he might have noticed but within the confines of a grocery store he’d be looking at your face.

A report: I survived the first day of work. I think this is going to be all right. I actually walked a mile after supper, so I guess my energy level is high enough on Day 1. I'm on the fire alarm crew, which is not ideal but it's waaaaay better than doing underground! I ran into a guy I had worked with at some point in the past the other day at the grocery store. I was with my son. I was wearing my black Diane von Furstenberg clogs, which have 5 3/8" narrow heels (1" platform). I knew I knew the guy from work somewhere, but I couldn't think of his name (still can't). He sure knew mine. At any rate, it was patently obvious that he did not notice my shoes. Not everyone has an interest such as we. That's just weird, innit?

I got this bsi glue and glued the platform back onto the shoe. Wore the knee boots today without a problem.

I’m very lucky to be able to work from home. My commute from bed to the table in my galley is about twenty feet!

One thing I surely don't miss, the commute home from BOS to Providence after a trip... 50 mile trip that has taken me as long as three hours...

Only 1/2 hour commute. I commute over 3000 ft 'hill'. Good days around 35 - 45 minutes depending on the traffic a road. Bad days 1+ hours. This summer I have a 55 minute (minimum) each way. But only 16 more months till I retire and the pay is very good. Some of the commutes I have done have been over 1 1/2 hours each way. But this is California, the land of freeways.

The commute is about half an hour each way. I did this for years in the past, and I thought I was done with it, but I guess fate had other plans. My plan is to work all the hours for at least a month, and get a feel for how management feels about people working less than that. I am not the only one in my orientation group who feels this way. We are paid quite well enough to more than make it on 40. OK, I'm signing off right now. Here we go!

I am so sorry to hear your news, Alex. Take care.

I suspect she was probably a bit more colourful that that!

The word 'merde' comes to mind!

I’m very sorry to hear of your loss. Losing a parent is an always tough blow not matter what their age - they’re the ones who have always been there. I hope you find some peace

So in the past 2 and a half weeks it has been very rough for me. I lost my father at the end of February and I've basically been very lost ever since. However I have been keeping myself occupied with other things including buying these 8 inch heels. I'm more into boots but I finally decided to make the jump to a pair of peeptoe platforms as retail therapy after my dad passed on. Safe to say I find them very comfortable and easy to walk in. My feet feel fine in them and I haven't had any issues so far.

Please don't allow that to happen! Be sure to update us, sounds like a great adventure/trip for sure. What airline?

This will happen to most all of us at some point, just glad she was not hurt and able to laugh about it later...

That’s a mighty long work week. Especially if you’re also commuting any distance. I hope you’re being well compensated. I should think a lot of things in one’s personal life would go by the wayside under such a regime.

Not actually seen out and about, but rather a cautionary tale that was related to me by a friend of mine - a rather chic French woman who is an expert in high heels. She was seated on a bar stool at a nice cocktail bar and had, thoughtlessly, hooked her stilettos over the crossbar between the stool legs - and even more thoughtlessly forgot to un-hook them when she went to stand up. Apparently she did a full body-length face plant in the bar, an otherwise very elegant woman about six feet tall. I’ve no idea what expletives she came out with at the time, but she could see the humour of it hours later when she mentioned it to me in an email.

Yeah, I know that I don't have a lot to say that hasn't already been said. That's why I have to invent stuff like statistics, and even that only goes so far. I am wondering how my new job is going to affect my walk schedule. It's 58 hours a week, so that means that many hours plus commuting time will be spent in flatties. Will I be able to average a mile a day in heels or not? I'm hoping that I can, but I can also see it going by the wayside.

Yes, heels are definitely in a downswing. I suppose I am fortunate in that my tastes run to chunky heeled boots in the 3-4” range for which there still seems to be a reasonable market - albeit not in my size range. it still surprises me though they there are not more active members here. This is a friendly and welcoming forum and I’m certain there is a latent desire out there to at least try high heels and see what all the fuss is - was? - about.

I think it is that there are very few first for each of us. I plan to fly this coming week for the first time with knee high boots. Expected no issues. Another reason is there are very few high heels in the market place. I have been looking for many months and so far had to return 5 pairs and the 6th one sold out before they send it. DSW is now devoted at most 20% of the floor space to shoes with heels.

Impressive statistics! It certainly has been quiet here lately. Not much high heels news from my part of England.

Very impressive indeed. Hoping the new job works out...

There isn't much going on here lately, so I decided to spend a few minutes and compile some personal high heel statistics. As I told about 2 1/2 months ago, I managed to walk approximately 350 documented miles in heels in 2024. I know that over the last 12 years of this adventure, my heels have gotten incrementally higher, so I was curious about what percentage of those 350 miles I walked in "high" heels vs. "mid" heels. My definition of a "high" heel is 4" or greater difference between heel and toe, subtracting out the thickness of the platform, where applicable. A "mid" heel to me is 3 - 3 7/8", using the same metric. So here are the numbers: 56.9% of the mileage was in "high" heels, and 43.1% was in "mid" heels. 0% for anything less than 3". I was able to get this information because I keep track of how many miles I walk in specific shoes, in addition to keeping a running total. I do this to keep track of how many miles I get out of heel tips, and ultimately the shoes themselves. For anybody who is curious, my most durable shoes to date are my True Religion mules, at 243 miles and still going strong. They are barely "high" heels with a 5" heel and 1" platform. In second place are my Nine West Sizzle oxfords at 196 miles. Those, unfortunately, are no longer with us. In other non-high heel news, I'm going back to work Monday. I really didn't want to take this job, but given what's happened in the last seven weeks, I figured it would behoove me to have a job, while there is still one available. At least I'll have friends there--it's not like I'll be a total stranger. I met a brother at orientation yesterday whom I hadn't seen in years. I hope we manage to get tooled up together.

I'm glad it didn't break at a more inopportune time. I don't think I've ever had a shoe failure right in front of someone, but I've sure had some inconvenient ones over the years. As far as knowing how many miles you have walked in the boots, a good indicator would be how many times you've had them reheeled. I typically get about 10 miles out of stiletto heel tips, but increase the diameter to 3/4" (still a slim heel, but definitely chunkier), and that average mileage increases to 50, easily. This is strictly outside walking, of course.

Nice stories! Very positive.

Several interesting events happen this week. On Wednesday I stopped at the Post Office on the way into work. As I past a woman getting to her door she stopped and told "I just love those boots" (Impo boots with 3.8+" skinny heels) "I wish I could walk as well as you in them." That's just normal for me. It's what happen on the way out that makes this an event. When I was about 11 meters from my car, I felt something wrong...looked down and the platform had separated from the top of the shoe. Got to my car, took off the boot and drove home. Lucky, I was only 4 miles from home. Went home and changed into my Jessica Simpson faux suede knee highs. I have since glued the shoe together. I wonder how many miles I have logged in those shoes over the last 6 + years; 50?, 100?, 200? Today, was a meetings day, again had the JS knee highs (rainy/windy day). After one meeting, a woman told me she always likes walking behind me because she likes the heels I wear. We discussed shoes for a few minutes, she and another woman were fans of JS shoes. Sheepishly she confessed that she owned over 50 heels, I told her "that's ALL, I have around 100." We laughed.