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Yeah...I know I'm breaking the rules here, but this outfit was just "too cute" not to share....My leather skirt and 4.5" Jessica Simpson "Tulip" boots. Although I adore these boots and I bought them unworn, the interior lining is quickly deteriorating due to their age (maybe 10+ years?). I have already started planning out their replacement. Regardless, what a thrill it was to wear such high heels to work. Received several compliments in the ensemble as a whole!

I also do this, on about the same timeline. If it's really, really cold, I'll break out the wool long johns, but most of the winter I wear cotton leggings that come down to about mid-calf. For whatever reason, my legs get cold before my upper body.

I haven't had a professional pedicure in roughly 10 years, since my favorite nail tech quit the biz. However, I learned a lot by observation in the several years I did go, and I also learned that I am very picky about who gets to touch my feet. Therefore, I do my own these days. When I can no longer reach my feet, we'll revisit the subject.

Resurrecting another old topic here. Since it has often been very cold here, sometimes I give up on actually walking outside and practice walking in heels inside. You would think that after all these years, I would have a great sense of balance. It turns out that when put to the test, I do not. I struggle to walk slowly, and have trouble balancing on one foot casually. If I think about it in advance and am prepared for it, of course I can do it, but if I walk super slowly and suddenly decide to pause mid-stride, I'm absolutely terrible! Even the pose shown here is not accomplished without thought. Some days are better than others.

I'm resurrecting an ancient topic, but sometimes it takes a long time to have relevant experience, and this company, as far as I know, is still a going concern. I have exactly one pair of FSJ shoes, and my initial experience was bad. My blue mules failed on me literally within 200 meters. Both heel tips crumbled in rapid succession. For whatever reason, I did not give up on them and put hard rubber tips on them, as I do with all of my heels eventually. Here we are more than three years later, and I can honestly say that they are one of my "go to" summer shoes. I even brought them on my motorbike trip last summer (did not actually ride in them, however). They have held up very well.

I don't believe I have ever laughed at anybody struggling in heels, but I knew from a young age that some girls were better at it than others. Today, my internal voice is much more likely to say, "Oh, honey. . . let's fix this just as soon as we can." I have never offered my services as high heel tutor, but I have had several students over the years. My success rate is exactly 0%. I must be a very bad teacher.

You make a valid point and kind of why there is not more ideas on this. Heels give you a little more height, but you get the same amount by stepping up on your tippy-toes. For rolling dough, you would not want to do that for extended periods of time, so high heels work, but its not such an issue for changing a light bulb. My house also has 9 foot ceilings exactly. That means a lightbulb is just out of reach flat footed, but easy to grab on tippy toes (or high heels) But how many houses are like that? Probably few. Its a sucky height too by the way because it means buying lumber that is longer for everything, then having to cut it back. If your lucky, getting 10 ft length, if not getting 12 ft and cutting 3 feet off the more expensive number. Grrrrrr.... Not that this changes that in any way, but platform heels are the style my wife likes. She either likes ones with a half inch or one inch platform to them, and peep-toed. She has others, but about 80% of her high heels are like this. (Edited post: first post I was short on time and did not explain details)

I put a stablizing surface (medium size plank of wood) down on the bed first. Then heels.

I finally grabbed another church OOTW photo. It almost didn't happen because the sun was out--again. I have mentioned before that especially at this time of year, the angle of the sun makes it almost impossible to take a decent photo in my spot at noon. Yesterday there were some thin clouds, however, so I'll call this good enough. I had my Christmas red on yesterday, as it was the last Sunday in Advent. My Steve Madden Ronni pumps in red are finally getting some use, even though they're 1/2 size too big. With inserts, they're acceptable when worn barefoot. I almost step out of them, but not quite. Pants are Loft, shirt and tie from some Vietnamese shop in Hanoi.

I've had to change a lightbulb that was high up above the middle of a double bed. The room was a bit small and crowded so moving the bed wasn't really an option. Standing on a chair standing on a bed is precarious! Heels of any kind wouldn't have helped. I'll avoid some of the "How many xxxx does it take to change a lightbulb?" jokes. Some are racially unacceptable. For much of the world except the UK there's the double entendre: "How many xxxx does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" And for seasonality: If you have old fashioned fairy lights (before LEDs) they were wired in series so the union boss says: "one out, all out!"

The way geometry works, you wouldn't really gain anything wearing heels vs. standing on tiptoe. Platforms change this equation, giving you inch-for-inch increased effective height, but I would say as a practical matter, any platform higher than two inches is precarious to wear in the real world, and safety concerns would outweigh any utility. Maybe two extra inches would be enough under certain circumstances. Ladders Last, innit?

I have noticed that with woodworking: bench height is important. For most work, the standard bench height is fine, but for really detail work like working on a scroll saw, a router or even some sanding operations, I prefer my bench height to be a little taller. A few though can be a little lower, pretty much anything to do with hammering since you get a heavier hit. An argument could be made that blacksmithing in high heeled boots with the pants on the OUTSIDE of the boot tops could be safe and add height?

I spent a day travelling on the trains from Leeds to London. Quite a few knee boots but mainly low heels, although there were a couple that were both high heels and very posh. It really seems to vary on the day, I went to York a few weeks ago and was startled by how many high heeled boots I was seeing.

Last entry of the year! Wore this outfit to a glassblower/artist's open house. Note: Jumpsuit can be very cute, except when one needs to use the washroom. And just in case I "forgot" any month.... an at the office outfit.

For sure, you definitely get some extra height. I sometimes like to work standing up and if I am in high heels that can be awkward because then I’m too tall for working on the counter and it’s an awkward resch

I was at a meeting last spring with 25 people facing each other in a rectangular table layout. After the meeting, a woman sitting across the room, took off her heels, took her sneakers out of her bag, put on her sneakers to go to her office upstairs in the same building. So she had 'meeting only heels'.

What about changing light bulbs in your home? I have 9 foot ceilings in mine, and while I can reach up and just touch the lightbulb, I have to stand on my tippy-toes to do so. With high heels on it is possible the last part of that would be negated?

When I remember the 1980's, I remember two distinct styles. The party girls wore the typical high heel stiletto of 3-1/2 to 4 inch heel, then the "Kitten heels" of the day, or at least as I called them. I don't want to offend anyone here, but will say, it was just not what I preferred seeing. I once bought my wife a pair of kitten heels because it was the right color for one of her blue dresses, and can tell you, she did not care for the style either. I don't think she ever wore the shoes and gave them away to one of those shoe donation boxes. My other recollection of the 1980's was watching a 6:30 PM mainstream news cast where there was a need for a filler moment, and so a reporter reported on how women were walking to work in New York City in their sneakers and then switching to high heels at work, and it was some sort of major movement. Women loved it and men hated it. I tried to look for that news segment but could not find it readily. Still, who would have thought years later high heels in the workplace would consist of so few?

It's funny about that, isn't it? In the past several years, I have been making notes about the idiosyncrasies of my many shoes. One of the notes says, "Not a 3 miler." It took me three tries before I realized that a 2 mile walk in these particular sandals was very pleasant, but each time I tried to go 3 miles, the silly things ate holes in the tops of my feet. The very same shoes are just fine for standing 5 hours at the farmer's market hawking egg rolls, but for some reason, there's just something about that third mile.

It doesn't take much in this day and age for someone to ask, "Why are you so dressed up?" We have always been headed toward the sloppy, but I think the pandemic accelerated the process. A button down shirt and pants that are not jeans will do the trick. The bar is pretty low. Of course, because I habitually wear heels, I'll always be singled out. I just feel like I can't wear heels, no matter how casual, and otherwise dress like I just got ripping down a plaster ceiling. So maybe the whole thing does keep me better than I really am. Pivoting back to the true original subject, I can't really come up with more things that are easier to do in heels, but I can come up with one thing that I thought should be way easier in heels, and it just isn't so. With the prevalence of online shopping, I'm sure most if not all of you have run into those plastic air pillows they often use to pack items for shipping. I think it's a great invention, WAY better than styrofoam packing peanuts, but you have to pop all of those bags in order to dispose of them in a reasonable volume of space. I figured stiletto heels would be the perfect tool for this. Uh, no. Does not work at all. If the pillows were blown up really hard, they might work, but blown up as intended, stilettos do not cover enough area to actually burst the bags. Perhaps if you put some sort of sharp object on the end of the heel it might just pierce the plastic, but then you'd lose the satisfying BAM! It's an idea that should work, but doesn't work all that well.

I think both @mlroseplant and @Shyheels bring up what probably is the most important aspect of wearing high heels, and that is, the importance and long-term positive effects of wearing high heels; its about how they make you feel. We live in such a negative downtrodden world where people dress how they feel. What so few people realize is that studies have shown numerous times that dressing up can help lift your mood and improve your self-assurance. My wife and I almost always dress well, whether going out to eat, going to church, or even to work. Surprisingly it is other women that give my wife a hard time; the hairy eyeball, snide comments said in the bathroom so she can just overhear it, and downright vile words spoken to her, all because she dresses well and takes care of herself. For me, I don't hear those same things from other men, but am sure a lot of people think we dress up so that we feel we are "better than them". We don't. We just like to dress well because of how it makes us feel about ourselves. But it is hard to quantify that. It is much easier to state that rolling dough in high heels is easier on my wife's back then to state how wearing high heels and making her feel more elegant produces a more self-esteem within her. But at times there can. Despite working as a blue collar worker in a powerplant, two days after deciding to dress well before going in and out of the plant and dressing into work clothes in the locker room, I was approached by management and asked to be the Safety Coordinator when the outgoing one retired. TWO DAYS! So if it makes you feel good, whether wearing heels is something almost nobody sees or everyone does, it is going to give you better self-esteem and that will transpire into better overall health and well-being.

In a similar vein I feel more creative in heels, my writing and editing flows better. I think because I’ve liberated myself from those restricting conformist views that prevented visual self expression. As well, the pleasurable feeling of wearing heels inspires me to get up at regular intervals and walk around - instead of sitting g blued to my desk and computer. It’s a healthy side benefit

I took a chance, with the volume set low, and looked up the Vixen video. Now that I hear it again, I kind of vaguely remember it. Once removed from the genre, it's not a terrible song. It has an actual tune. It's a bit cheesy (the modulation on the last chorus really solidifies the cheesiness factor), but to me it's an ok pop song, you just have to think of it as a pop song. There was no pitch correction and no quantizing back then, so most of that must have been actual musicians performing an actual song that didn't have 12 writers and 23 producers. You are so right about the heel shape(s) being instantly recognizable. It reminds me of how my ex-wife used to regard the shoes of the 80s with disdain as being "super dated" looking. With many styles, particularly the lower heeled ones, I can't really argue with her. I am looking at my own collection, and wonder how many shoes look a little long in the tooth.

I was trying to think of anything that I can do more easily in heels besides knead bread dough, which these days I rarely do anyhow. Do I sing better in heels? I think I do, but it's probably all illusion, and there's no real way to test it. I can't think of another thing that is actually easier to do in heels. I'm trying to think through my everyday routine, and if I'm honest, there's nothing that heels don't make harder, if only incrementally. Then it hit me. It's not something one would normally think of as being a practical use, but if I didn't have heels, I probably would not exercise nearly as much as I do. Y'all know that I like to pound the pavement in heels on the regular, and I have just thought to myself that I would probably be more tempted to sit here in front of this computer and talk about heels, rather than going out and walking in them. As an ancillary to that, I no doubt take way better care of my feet and ankles than I would if I didn't wear heels.

I can clean the top of my refrigerator and reach the items in the back of my tallest shelf in my kitchen.