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I'm not really concerned with the main subject the article though somebody famous had the opposite problem with sweat, or so he claimed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59839351 I'm just wondering about the boots. There have certainly been combined boots and trousers - I've seen a pair just once on the streets of London. Here's an example: https://ca.style.yahoo.com/balenciaga-selling-strange-3000-shoe-pants-hybrid-131332085.html The pair I saw was all leather. There are also boot suits, extending as far up the body as you like, but these would normally be thought of as rather kinky.

I am not a fan of the look, but I am a person that tends to like contrast, but not just in dress, but on many fronts. When my wife wears a black skirt with white top as the saying says, "Black and White is always right". Red boots merging into red pants or leggings of some sort? Why? If you are going to wear red boots, why make them disappear? Be proud of what you are wearing. Make a statement, but again, that is just me. As for the main premise of the article? I am not sure. There seems to be a lot of marketing here in the USA anyway about sweating lately. Many companies now make whole body deodorant. The body wash I have used for years suddenly says it has five functions with whole body deodorizing being just one of the benefits. Whether they changed the product or not, I am not sure, but I never smelled before, so I am not concerned with it now. I do have to wonder if all the antibacterial soap is setting society up for a really bad back-bite though??? As for celebrities being more open about sweating issues? I don't know. I live a boring life and do not get up on stage before 10,000 animated fans and try to entertain while enough lights are shining on me as I dance or act that is more powerful than the sun. If they are trying to think saying so brings them down to my level... which, by the way, is so low I have to reach up to touch whale turds... they are wrong. I sweat, but they would not do what I do as I am, that is for sure.

No idea who that is, and I can't really empathize. I don't sweat much compared to most people. If I'm dripping in sweat, it means it's actually hot, not "Britain Sizzles in the 70s" hot.

Like walking on pillows. Who the heck wants to walk on pillows? Sounds like a lot of extra work to me. I'm fine with walking on the ground, thank you. Again, I sound like I'm repeating myself, but I rejected Doc Martens boots for the same reason--too squidgy. I think they created more problems than they solved. Maybe my wooden shoes are more cushion-y than I give them credit for being, but the point is that I haven't worn any soft shoes to any extent at all for years, and I don't have the foot pain I used to have. There's more to it than that, of course, but my basic reasoning was, "OK, I could walk barefoot on this concrete all day long, no problem. Yet when I wear my cushioned boots, I can barely walk at the end of the day. Why is that?"

That is not so surprising to me. As a hobby woodworker I once read an article about a man who married a woman from the Netherlands, and he researched and got into making wooden shoes like from her home country, and said they were extremely comfortable to wear. I think my insoles are comfortable because they are so supportive. They are made of hard plastic but really support my high arches. My Sketchers have ads on TV about stepping in pillows because of the memory foam they are made of, but I wholeheartedly disagree. One of my bucket list items is to make a homemade pair of high heels for my wife, but I have yet to do it.

One thing crazy thing that persists here in the United States anyway, is that is that it is against the law to drive barefoot… or at least without shoes, and that is actually false. None of the fifty states have such a law so I guess driving in heels or taking them off really does not matter here. Now, it is possible that if you are in an accident and driving barefoot you could be cited for “driving to endanger”, but with a pair of high heels kicked off there is no culpability since it could be said driving with them on would have been just as bad, or worse I would think??? But what NO ONE should ever do is put their feet up on the dash while riding in a moving vehicle… especially barefoot. Take a look at some pictures of people who have done that, and it is clear they will never walk again.

I kind of have a thing for statistics and I am finding out slowly that there are a lot of men doing things you would never guess that they would be doing, like getting manicures. As far as I can tell that statistic is around 5%. To put that another way, for every hundred men you meet on a giving day, five… unbeknownst to anyone… statistically has had a professional pedicure. Which I find interesting. I hesitate to share this because it is personal and weird I know, but because my wife and I like to swim competitively, I dislike body hair and so I shave… like from the neck down and have for years, but I know that is weird. Well, I recently found out… maybe not so much. About 15% of men do. 66% of men shave one particular area that I won’t describe in detail obviously, but the rest of their bodies, fifteen men out of a hundred fully shave. Not a huge amount granted, but who knows, maybe the trend will become mainstream? I do know this, seeing the numbers helps. Since the average urbanite sees about 360 people day, you can quantify the numbers. Assuming a 50% gender split, that means out of 180 men seen per day, 9 of those have had pedicures, and a whopping 27 fully shave. Suddenly I don’t seem so weird.

In this article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy51pgql7eo there is a photo of a group of people on the show "Traitors" (which I've never watched). About 2/3 of the way down and captioned: "Traitors contestant, actress Celia Imrie, also admitted to a bodily mishap in a recent episode" There is a woman, I don't think it's Imrie - looks too young, wearing red high heel boots that seem to merge seamlessly into trousers. Does anyone know who is this and what are they wearing?

Wood is an excellent shock absorber. It’s why surveyors usually have wooden tripods for their laser surveying gear - it’s not that they can’t or won’t afford carbon fibre but because wood simply dampens vibrations that much better. Photographers, for whom weight is often an issue, waver between carbon fibre and aluminium - wanting the stabilising weight of aluminium, and the easier portability of carbon fibre. But for vibration reduction and stability, neither holds a candle to wood

Yes, go to Rome or any Italian city and you’ll see plenty of elegant high-heeled women zipping about in Vespas

At the salon that I go to my nail tech tells me that she has over 20 male customers that get pedicures. Most get a clear gel but like myself there are 9 other men customers that get color on their toes, some red like me, some pink, one in purple and two in black. I remember several years ago when there was three other men that hand colored toes. We were shopping in a Walmart. One of the women with one of the men took a picture of all four of us showing off our colored pedi's. She said she was going to post it online but I never saw it. So Crushed Vamp you can wear a color on your toes. There are a lot of men doing it. Happy Heeling, bluejay

Another thing that is difficult, but not impossible to do in heels is ride a motorbike. It seems exciting at first, but as a practical matter it is somewhat less than exciting, and very possibly rather unsafe. This is one of the reasons I switched to a scooter, with automatic transmission and no foot controls. Those things were made for heels!

To be fair, I will use a ball-of-foot insert for fitment purposes, where applicable. I never had any luck with them heel grippers. I do have one pair of mules that actually fit better with double foot cushions, but naturally, I rarely wear them because they don't quite fit right. So here's the weird thing: Many of my favorite shoes are wooden heeled sandals. I've liked that style from my youth. A lot of them do not have any cushioning at all--your foot rests directly on the wood. Despite the hard surface, these tend to be among my more comfortable shoes. I can't explain that, but it did get me off my search for insoles, and moved me toward a different approach to foot comfort.

11 CM is still a lot of heel! We switch who drives quite often, but when she is in heels I just tend to be the one who drives. Not to sound sexist in any way, but on dinner dates and in going to church, I will be chivalrous and go around and get the door for her. I know Prince Philp once said, "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife." But that does not work so well for me. We dress up because we like how it makes us feel, and making her feel special by opening her car door when she is dressed up is not an afront to me. I do not have any sons, my only son passed away, but all five of my daughters can curtsey. THAT is something that is VERY rare on this side of the pond, but we have tried to instill a little class in our daughters. Had I had a son, I would do the same... well... maybe not having him give curtseys, but by opening his girlfriend's car door and other chivalrous behavior. :-)

I don't know anything about any boats, but I believe you on that 😉 I cannot recommend. The highest ones I've driven with must have been a 11 cm heel. I didn't feel unsafe, but uncomfortable. The hardest is pressing the clutch pedal, because you have to stretch your foot more than in lower heels. If I wear anything higher I'm just letting my husband drive.

I am never a person to pry into anyone's past but I would like to hear how you got started, even if it is a rather long explanation. I have been ahead of the curve on a few male trends, doing some things for a long time long before it was widely accepted that men do them. But on some other things I admit I am timid. The atypical male I guess who wishes things would change like men’s attire that is completely boring, but yet hoping others pave the way to make it mainstream. The problem with that fear of course, is that with so many people like me holding back; nothing changes, or at the very least… changes very slowly. I remember on a episode of Dirty Jobs where they were pouring concrete and the big burly foreman of the crew had to change from his rubber boots to his leather boots and when he did, his sock stayed inside the boot and the man had bright red painted toes. He was called out on it, but the guy did not care and owned up to it even if it was going to be on national TV.

My wife can drive in her everyday heels, and by that, I mean the ones that are 3-1/2 inch or so in height. I have seen her do it a few times when going to church or special functions but it is a pretty rare occasion. Most of the time it’s a place we are going together like church, a dinner-date, or some outing and it’s just more common for me to drive. If she does drive in heels, it is because for some reason we had to take two vehicles. I am not sure with her taller heels if she could safely drive, or more to the point, she would FEEL as though she could safely drive. She would probably just take them off. I do not wear high heels so I am not sure if I could or not. I would test my ability but while I do not have big feet per se, I can’t wear her shoes. But everything we have for vehicles has automatic transmissions of some kind even the skidders, bulldozer, tractors… yep, everything we have.

I can tell you absolutely that you don't want to pilot a narrowboat in heels! Certainly not stilettos! You could probably get away with it in chunky heeled boots with 7 to 8 cm heels, but I wouldn't fancy it - not as a single-hander, unless you had someone to work the locks.

I remember once she bought a pair of high heels she liked so much, that even though they were not in her size, she bought the closest ones to fit, a full-size more than she normally wore. To make them fit she put some heel-pads on the back of her pumps and had to have 2 of them stacked up to make the shoes fit. But that's my wife: she loves high heels!

I don't think that's the problem. Just because there is more or less open area at the front doesn't say anything about the shoe's shape. That's a nice pair by the way! I also tried insoles in the past. But the best they could do for me was to make bad-fitting shoes fit a bit better. Now I'm very picky when buying shoes and since that I never used insoles again.

This line could be from my husband, I'm sure he said that before 😅 I also don't find any thrill in it. For me it's a practical thing. If I wouldn't drive in heels I'd have to change shoes everytime I get in and out of the car. For longer trips it might be OK, but not for the everyday drives. Also I can't find any downsides of driving in heels, as long as they're below 10 cm or so. If they're higher, the heel gets a bit in the way when pressing the pedals.

My Ex-wife is extremely envious of my nails. 😁 And I love it!

I only take my right heel off when I have stilettos on and going to drive for over 20 minutes. Otherwise I drive in my heels, even for a 8 - 9 hour trip. Most car sold in the US have a CVT - continuous variable transmission, which is a belt system.

I’ve never tried driving in heels although I don’t think I’d find it a problem, except perhaps for worrying about damaging the heels. I can drive a manual easily - I learned in them, drive them all my life and indeed most of the cars here are manual. I can also drive a left or right hand drive vehicle, changing back and forth readily as I used to have to do on a regular basis when I travelled a lot

I have my own interesting relationship with insoles and arch support. After many years of experimentation, I never use them. For me personally, they seem to do more harm than good. I've never tried Keds or Chucks, but I'm sure they'd agree with me just fine, given their minimal support.