pussyinboots

I USED to have a beautiful, classy pair of platforms.

They were in the 'stripper' mule style - and I bought them from the upmarket UK shoe retailer Russell and Bromley back in 2005. They were a French designer brand, and had a 6" sculpted spike heel and a 1.25" platform. The base was in a bronzed-red-ish carbon fibre, and the uppers were natural Cow-hide......they originally came with a matching clutch bag....and cost £375.00.

They were a limited edition and only 3,000 were made for the UK apparently. Very sadly, they were stolen on holiday 2 years ago, when our hotel was burgled.....

Unless you are asking an egotist.

trevor,

I got some really high heels from Elite Heels and they seem to have inserted a type of platform right where my main toe joints sit, which proped up my feet to fit the heighth of the heels. You may have to consult a reputable shoe shop to see if this is possible or if there might be any solutions they would suggest. Good luck!

'Scholl' make inserts to go under the ball of your foot, that do exactly this. Look on-line, or, you may have a 'Scholl-Centre' near you.

Some close ups of those red clog mules!!!

They were actually her own shoes - and I believe they were made by 'Candies'.

so I have this problem frequently. The best thing to do to make a shoe that is slightly too large fit is to incorporate insoles (I much prefer the suede ones to the gel), and heel grips. If one doesnt work, you can always double up .

Everyone has two different sized feet - it's a part of human physiology - same as all humans have one arm longer than the other.

Olivia Newton John in Grease

Iconic Scene when she wears a tight black trousers (which she really did have to be sewn in) and red high heel mules, good close up when she stubs out a cigarette and also when she pushes John Travolta away with her foot.

Yes, this would be very high up my list as well. I fell in love with those heels when I was a teenage girl and spent the next few years looking for a pair. I did find some eventually - and I also now have about 10 pairs of lycra jeans too....!

Try looking at these:

www.leatherworks.org.uk

www.orientvisual.com/6inchforever

www.estresmodes.com

www.fuss-schuhe.de (VERY thin heels on mules and sandals)

www.la-piazza-highheels.com

www.sky-scrapers.co.uk

www.chaussuresmaryline.fr

All these stores are Fetish/Extreme heels suppliers, and in the main their shoes have very thin spike heels.

I'm clearly obsessed with the shoes within this thread as a I keep doing searches for alternative phrases that might result in different returns; of which "floating heels" returned these.

Found here;http://everycloghasitsday.typepad.com/every-clog-has-its-day/2010/02/another-country-heard-from-the-netherlands.html ignore the not very relevant name.

Now that's impressive.....

Okay, now I'm having visions of Dr. Shoe horseback riding in stilettos.

'Pata' has already done this in Ballet Boots, on her own beautiful pony.

They Do!!!!

Here:

http://www.barratts.co.uk/en/timeless-zip-front-sandal-180860

Thanks Sweetie..

I totally love these.....

http://www.bigshoeboutique.co.uk/en/timeless-zip-front-sandal-180860

Such a shame that they don't do sizes smaller than 8 for girls.

Michael Kors

Alejandro Ingelmo

Louboutin

Me too, me too....!!

I have several pairs of his beauuuutiful stiletto heels from the '70's and '80's. They knock spots off modern high heels don't they..?!

just a note about *overpriced*- either justified or not, nobody is forced to buy shoes at these prices. or any other products we do not need for our daily living.

So this argument is somehow very hypocritical as on the other hand any producer HAS the right to demand the price for his/her work he/she wants or thinks adequate for which reasons ever. Either one gets it is another issue again. but to claim a product worser because it costs more than we cannot (want not) afford is not ok.

Agreed - and in many cases, the high costs of designer heels, are a direct result of the 'hype' applied to them, and the willingness of people to pay the inflated prices.

If we all started wearing Wellington Boots - then sooner or later, you would start finding pairs of $1,500.00 'designer wellies'...........

You won't go far wrong with either make to be honest. Both 'Ellie'' and 'Pleaser' pumps are reasonably well made for the price.

They are incredibly similar heels, so much so that at a casual glance they could be the same shoe - however the 'Ellie' has a more sculpted shape at the bottom of the vamp - whilst the 'Pleaser' has a slightly more curved heel shaft.......

Ultimately, it comes down to your personal tastes and your budget.

The thing with designer heels is that they have been designed and conceptualized from the start. Yes they might seem overpriced to some, but to me they are works of art that you can wear. I don't see how people could berate Louboutin because some have copied his red sole. To me the red sole is almost irrelevant. If they had 'normal' soles they would still be beautiful. Don't get me wrong, there are many Louboutin shoes that I don't like, but surely one can see that he did something new and put a rocket up the shoe industries bottom. For that alone he should be celebrated.

I believe that Mr. Louboutin started designing shoes because he had a passion and desire to do it. The money and fame was and probably still is secondary to his love of designing shoes. It's just the icing on his cake.

Jimmy Choo is another case in point. The real Jimmy Choo started hand making shoes in London many, many years ago. He was rather unknown to the public and it was the fashion magazines that started to feature his shoes. He then got snapped up by socialite Tamara Mellon and she went mental and created the monster that the Jimmy Choo Corporation has become today. He was probably happiest when he had a little workshop and could do his own thing. Again the money helps but I thik he just had a desire to make lovely shoes.

Manolo Blahnik is another example. He wanted to become a theatre set designer and started to make some quite theatrical shoes after being pushed into it by others.

Yes there's hype around some fashion designers, but maybe that hype is more about the celebs that are wearing them rather than the shoes/clothes alone. The magazines, both high fashion and gossip style, need to sell magazine and create and manipulate people own to perpetuate the hype.

Surely all of us would prefer something truly thought out, designed and handmade by craftspeople than something mass produced.

So in summary I feel that it's the very nature of humanity that creates the hype around designers, rather than the designers setting out from day one with the sole aim of becoming rich and famous.

Absolutely spot on and very well written.