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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.

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.

As way of introduction on here, I thought I would tell the members of this site that my username “Crushed Vamp” has no particular funny story behind it, other than it seemed an appropriate username for a high heeled forum. If nothing else I guess, it tells people I know the various parts of a high heel. I have always liked high heels though, in particular combined with stockings, a dress or short skirt, and an ankle bracelet. Fortunately I have a wife that likes to dress up for most occasions and loves her high heels. When she was formerly married to a very short man inch which she would be higher than him in wearing high heels, he forbid her to wear them. Since height is not an issue with me, she has gone all-out on high heel purchases and has every style, type, color and variation there is with her 200 plus pairs. While less in number she has thigh high, knee high and booties with high heels and will wear them if the mood strikes her. It is enough that she has a walk-in closet just for her shoe collection. We affectionately call it her "shoe barn". Myself, I do not wear high heels although I am glad to see men wrestle the high heel back to our gender from its inception some four hundred years ago. My love of them is enough that on my bucket list someday is crafting a pair for my wife to wear. I am not a cordwainer by trade, but do have some woodworking, leather and metalworking skills so do think I could make a custom pair. Considering my love of high heels, I think that would be a gratifying accomplishment. I am not sure how they would fit, or how comfortable they would be, but it would be fun to learn a new skill I think and who knows, form a new hobby?