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I wasn't talking about seeing someone and deciding to re-create that particular image.

I meant that dressing your legs in such a way that mimicked the female form

You would be creating before your own eyes and within your control, an image that appeared beautiful, elegant and attractive almost like you had transformed yourself partly into your idealized female form.

After reading this and thinking better, it seems that yes, it's approximately what I try to do. The image of the perfect legs and feet, but not exactly associated with the female form itself, but the heeled feet and legs per se.

Since the majority of heel wearers are women, I can say that I try to mimic the female forms in this case, you're right.

Ok I'll shut up now.

Oh please, don't do that!

Dear Amanda, I don't think Pleaser's shoes are so bad. They're cheap because are usually man made materials and large scale produced. Of course they aren't like soft leather ones, but I had a pair of pumps that were very good looking, nice shape, 5 inch heels and seemed to have a solid construction. After 3 years of heavy wear, they had no problems at all. Oh, they were very confortable too, Pleaser makes large sizes and their US 14 are true fit. And many thanks for linking the store, I liked a lot.

If some doctor find out that pants are bad for men, as some research said about bicicle's seats, maybe the situation can change.

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D'ya think I have a thing for ankle boots?

Noooooooooooooo:thumbsup:

To the original question... Men would be saying "these shoes are killing me". Men would have a closet full of hundreds of shoes and saying "I don't have the right shoe for this outfit" (wich often happens to me). Men would be dancing barefeet in weddings because feet were burning as hell. Men would be taking shoes off to enter the boarding room in airports. And so on

Amanda, in my opinion you are always welcome around guy's forum. I never posted in the girl's forum even when was permitted but always read it. Yes, it seems boring to discuss there. Keep in touch!

I voted yes because here in Brazil they would look like woman's shoes to the "regular" people. Anyway, the cowboy boots I'm wearing to work right now are 2 inches... But they are cowBOY boots. And I don't see too many BOYs wearing them around here, but the girls...

Amanda, I think that there's no direct answer to your primary question, you will (and already got) mixed replies and tastes. My reply is no. I never tried or imagined to recreate a look I saw on the streets and liked. Of course, a pair of beautiful woman's legs over heels are eye catching. What I try to recreate is the feeling and look of the shoe on my foot itself. Everytime I wear my heels I like to look to the pointy toes and heels and think to myself "now I'm experiencing something that just a few men around the world can" and enjoy looking to my feet. But it's just me!

Thanks for the info shoerepairer! That was exactly the experience I did before lowering 1cm my boot's heels.

Great pumpedup! Classy and sexy styles! Nice finds and good taste!

It depends of the quality and fitting. My best quality shoes never hurt. I feel my feet tired after walking some hours, but no pain. Standing in one spot for some time is worst then walking.

In NY Macy's on 34th Street and the one in Yonkers both stock size 11. I bought a beautiful pair of Nine West black leather "Gallivant" knee high stiletto boots in the Yonkers store.

This is what I call heeling!

The look is perfect. My mouth still open because of the boots.

Congratulations!!!

Going totally contrary to the tendency of this thread, I did it myself. I always self-studied how shoes are made, I'm not a pro like Dr. Shoe. Since I have some hand tools and like to work with wood and make things in my own house, I decided to do that with my beloved 5 inches. They were 5.5 before the job. 5.5 was to high for me. I did a lot of trainning in then and never was able to walk gracefully since my calf didn't stretch the way I can do a step without pain when the foot goes forward. I waited more then an year to decide what to do. Since I'm very busy lately, I didn't have time to go to a cobbler. I started studying my boots. First step, simulation. I putted the boots on a corner of a table and saw the angle of the original heel and how it would be after the job. I realised that 1cm (0.5 inch approx.) would do a very small angle to the verticallity of the heel. Little or no problem. The point of the toebox would be a little more springed, no trouble at all. Second step, removing heeltips. WARNING! these boots have wood heels and they are not regular stilletos, they are a bit chunkier then stilletos. They don't have the inner metal where the heeltip fits. Don't do this in your boots if they have regular plastic or inner metal heels or if you don't know what you're doing! To remove the heeltips, since they were glued, was just a matter of carefully taking them with a sharp tool. Then, unglue the leather around the area I want to remove. Perfect, no damage 'till here. After that, was to mark and cautiously saw the heels. Perfect. A little finishing so the wood was plain. With a sharp knife I cutted out the excess of leather. Finishing with superglue. Superglue did the job to the tips after cautious cleaning and plainning them. PERFECT. Walking in them was a pleasure I never had before! I was capable of confortably walk in them and spend a lot of time without hurt! The angle was a bit bad looking. I solved that holding the boots firmly with my hand (no tools here please) and with the other hand firmly and cautiously pushing the arch of the boot to make a new shape to the inner steel shank. Since the difference was minimum, there was no risk to ruin the boots. The results? Are on my feet now. I love them and will wear them forever. They are the greatest shoe I ever had. Beautiful, warm, sexy, practical and more comfortable then any "men's" or "women's" shoe I have. A lesson: now I know exactly my limit of 5 inches heels.

I'm sorry I can't help you telling some place to go find your boots since I'm from Brazil. What I can say is that I have a pair of custom made shoes. They were very expensive, about US$200 4 years ago. A pair of good ready boots costs less then US$50 around here. The point is that the boots are worth every cent!!! they fit like gloves in my feet, they are more comfortable then any shoe I have (including the men's ones) and they are 5 inches high, very soft leather and the design was chosen by me and made exactly how I expected. My recomendation is that if you can pay the price and know a trusty place to do it, go for it!

The shoes I have are very soft and never gave me blisters. I prefer to wear the thighest ones with nylons or male social socks and my 5 inch kneehighs with sports socks for better fitting and comfort. Not cheating at all, my wife does it everytime she's in boots.

Nice design for a "man's" shoe. Like it a lot and would wear them anywhere.

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Nice find, I didn't know such accessory existed.

Of course is better to wear chunk heels or flats on the grass but carry shoes to change in a party is not practical.

As a man that is starting to street heeling I never had problems since I choose were I go before putting my beloved heels on but I know women like and sometimes have to wear stilletos in grass weddings.

Many thanks Ninanoora!

Then just register with Flikr, problem solved.

Lazy me. I forgot that Flikr is now part of Yahoo. Since I have an Yahoo ID, was just a matter of logging in.

What I really don't like is to subscribe to a service just to visit once.

They are protected for good reason.

Now I see...

Unfortunatelly I don't have a pair of white shoes. I bought a pair of white ankle boots online that I had to return because didn't fit. But yes, I would wear a pair like the bootkings ones for sure. They are very beautiful. The world needs more colors. Everything is so black, white and the shades of grey between them. And I'm too tired of the "basic black" women say all the time around here in Brazil.

The link asks for logging in. I'm not a flickr user, could the pictures go to a public session or maybe attachments here?

Great look Mr. X. Exactly how I like to dress in heels at home, boots and pants. At home I wear jeans and when out I use black pants. i just find it so easy on the eyes, why people complain?

Since I'm one of the 3 biggest ones (more than 6'6'') I had some experiences in the last months that are worth sharing around here. When I go to public places I aways draw a lot of attention, what I really don't like since I'm a bit shy. I have a lot of problems like: I don't fit well in small cars to drive and large ones are expensive around here; I don't fit at all in regular airplane seats, just can't sit, always have to ask for the emergency exit; Same in any bus; Everybody asks me if I play basketball when in an elevator; People get a (bad) surprise when don't see me and quickly turn their heads up; Someones laugh at me and I'm not Bozo. How to wear heels regularly without embarassement? I swear I'm trying people...

Dear newbie, one more welcome to you! Beeing afraid about heels in the age you are is completely normal and I'm sure that 99% of the male heelers here felt the same, me included. You should be living under your parents roof and, of course, is a lot more difficult to be yourself without embarassement. When I was 24 and got my own flat to live in another city my freedom turned easier and I felt that my mind was my only jail. About friends, girls and guys, always remember your mother. I'm pretty sure that she told you to choose well who you walk with in the past.

Walk in heels through a museum should be interesting. Every noise in a museum seems amplified, I'm here thinking about the clicket clackt in a large room.

Hey Johnie!

So many different kinds and styles of heels. They have all been labeled from casual to fetish to sexy etc. etc.

The one thing they all are is FUN!

Of course they're all a lot of fun!

But remember that life should be fun, so be casual can be fun for someone while sexy can be fun for others and tarty also can be fun.

My question is, do you think men wearing heels in public could possibly change the way people think about the different labels that heels have been marked with so that ALL heels will be looked upon for simply FUN instead of the person wearing 5 or 6" heels or thigh highs be labeled as hooker, kinky, or what ever some day?

The short answer to your question is a big YES in my opinion.

But I also think that fun is just a short term for it, since beeing kinky is also a great form of having fun, see the movie "Kinky Boots" for example. That movie talks about beeing kinky, sexy, "out of the norm" and fun at the same time. The movie made me think about my heel wearing, society and beeing happy at the same time.

Take Thighbootguy for example. He lives a life style that is pretty much to the norm and wears thigh high boots every where without any problems for the most part. Now you put a woman in those same boots and a lot of people might think a lot of wrong things if you know what I mean.

I know exactly what you mean. But why should we live around "norms"?

Why isn't the "norm" just the respect for each other's lives and showing some sense of dignity? Heels are proved related to sex by psiquiatrists phisicians for some part of the people and women still wearing them to show up their sexyness.

Maybe we should discuss this some more around this thread...