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Looking great! Will look for pictures there, would love to see those boots

I wouldn't want to wear Louboutins in the snow, either! But what will you replace them with over the winter? It seems that a lot of makers do not make 13 cm--they go directly from 12 cm to 15 cm. I'm guessing if you could somehow find some 13 cm boots, that would be ideal. But who makes such a thing?

That sounds like what you'd see attending our contemporary style church service.

HIH, I didn't attend a Halloween event in heels but I did wear my orange heeled knee boots when I went to my salon last week for my Halloween manicure, which I reported on in the general fashion section. With the boots I wore a black skort, orange top and also was wearing black fishnet hose. Happy Heeling, bluejay

Hey All, Read recently that wedge heels may come back big time in 2026. Recent sitings at fashion shows suggest this. Has always been one of my absolute favorites. Enclosed are two different looks with high wedge heels, 5.5”/16 cm or more, with a dress and skinny jeans. I’ll try to post more as I love this style and not many post about them though I do remember our favorite Iowan, Mlroseplant, talking about them. HinH

Good info on the magnets vs watches effect. I do enjoy various ladies’ style watches with different outfits so this was of interest to me. HinH

This is pic I said I’d post. Figured out how to reduce size to fit the guidelines. Dress came from Ross and heels from funky pair in CA. Anyone here attend a Halloween event in heels?? Just curious. HinH

great outfit, lpve those FBs

I was at a modest family function yesterday morning - a granddaughter's third birthday party in a village hall. The guests were mostly couples in their early thirties with their children aged from 2 months to about 8 years. Of the dozen or so mums present, all were wearing trousers (except for one in leggings), and all were in nondescript flat shoes or boots. Whilst it wasn't a 'dressy' occasion in the accepted sense, it was disappointing to see that none of the women had made any real attempt to depart from very casual 'weekend' wear. And the men were but little smarter; I was almost the only one not wearing trainers.

Absolutely! I'll definitely keep the practice walks, they help the best so far. Only have to find an alternative for winter season, I really don't wanna use the Hot Chicks in snow and salt.

No problem. Haven't worn a watch since the sixties. Besides, I don't think the magnets are that powerful.

Wow! Congratulations! It must have been fun to be going out to dinner in them and having it feel relatively easy! That’s brilliant progress. i am hoping to be getting back into my 12cm boots later this week - and in a warmer boat!

I'm too young to have already worn them at the time, but I think I know which styles you mean. They indeed seem very comfortable and suitable for long standing times. I would also be interested in the cause of this sudden ending...

@mlroseplant I had the same feeling when I bought my Hot Chicks. I was able to straighten my knees, but it felt like it was on the limit. Wearing them at home very often helped for that. @Shyheels I'm looking forward to hearing from your eyperience of getting into your 12 cm boots again. I'm pretty sure you will feel at least a minor throwback, at least that's my experience. By the way, yesterday I wore the Hot Chicks out again for dinner. It felt way easier than the last times, the regular little practice walks around the block helped so much!

l am loving these Fernando Berlin boots.

I’m still very much in the world of heavy suede OTK boots with 8cm heels - I’m hoping to get my heating sorted in the next week or so and can get back to practicing in my stilettos. I just hope that in the interim I’ve not lost whatever modest gains I’ve made …

It occurred to me that back in the mid-to-late '90s, which was a dark time for nice looking shoes (not unlike today), the popular heel was a black ankle bootie, typically with a very chunky heel and a lugged platform sole. These came in various heights, with the mildest being probably two inches and the wildest exceeding four inches. Subtracting for the platform, it was probably a three inch heel. Germane to this topic, you used to regularly see young women doing service jobs wearing such shoes. Waitresses, department store clerks, fast food workers, et al. In particular, I can remember going to the grocery store, and you'd nearly always see at least one girl at a cash register wearing chunky heels that were sometimes quite high. Evidently, they must have been comfortable standing for several hours in these, because they certainly weren't required. In fact, in the end, they were apparently banned. This was a trend for the better part of a year, but something happened. I almost guarantee you somebody got hurt somewhere, because suddenly they were gone from this particular store. And I mean suddenly. Like overnight. I would love to know the story behind that.

I don't normally warm up before wearing "regular" heels, but I often think that maybe I should. There comes a point, however, at which I can't walk properly. This begins to occur somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 cm. I haven't really looked in a mirror or filmed myself, but I feel 95% of it is that I can't straighten my knees all the way. Many times, 10 or 15 minutes of pacing around will correct that problem.

Just make sure you're not wearing your vintage watch while doing this. Magnets cause old mechanical watches to do some very strange things.

No, these have a wide strap above the ankle. I get to se the woman wear hers every week and just can't take my eyes off those black leather points. The light coming in the windows makes one side glow to help define the shape. Two women were dancing in black mary janes but with black socks. YUCK!

Once my nail bed on some fingers started to have issues, I had to get the nails covered with acrylic to hold them together; then you need to cover the acrylic with gel. That was 10 years ago. It took awhile to get use to having colored nails. I get compliments from both men and women, and may people will compare my nails to their....really no comparison You could start with a translucent gel with a very little color. Or you could ask your nail tech to do a magnet gel on your baby fingers. I think she would be excited to do it. The polish is sometimes called 'cat eye' when you use a different magnet to get the total cat eye effect. Cat eye nail polish works by using special formulas with metallic or iron particles that are pulled into patterns by a strong magnet. Google it and see all the effects you can get. It very similar to the special effects of some car paint jobs in the 70's

That sounds very clever and cool indeed! While I wear color on toes almost 100% of the time, I’ve not mustered the gumption to venture beyond clear gel. However, the aforementioned nail tech drops yet another hint from time to time.

@mlroseplant No, I don't do any warm-up before going outside. But I put them on first before the rest of the clothes, so there's already a bit of standing in them before walking. What makes a difference is weither I been at home barefeet all day or already been out in heels all day. Even if I only wore lower heels like 8 cm all day, the transition is easier.

Speaking for myself, I find that walking around for a few minutes in my 10cm heels is a good warm up for wearing my 12cm ones - although if I do I have a way of becoming distracted and forgetting to change boots.

It’s interesting. It would be fun to know what their perception of heels is, especially stilettos. As you say, it’s not something you can sidle up and ask without looking like a creep. But from a sociological and cultural viewpoint, it would be an interesting question.