dr1819

The picture of her in the pink sweater is pretty incredible!

Welcome aboard! I have friends who live near Long Branch, NJ.

I'm no nurse, but as a person whose dealt with a heart issue, I second Mrs. Heel's recommendation! Earlier this summer I was grossly overweight due to an unrelated medical condition, and started having some symptoms of heart trouble. So, I radically changed my diet and began biking to work. I had to take it very easy at first, just so that I wouldn't precipitate a heart attack. After a month I was comfortably well along and began interval training. By three months I was down 20 lbs and was at the point where I was passing obvious road-racing cyclists who were out training. I guess Lance was right - it's not the bike (my Cube is a racer, but it's at the bottom of the list with respect to being lightweight). It's really all mental. It didn't hurt that I grew up cycling, kept it up back in college, and ran track, either... But I'd been getting more and more out of shape for fifteen years straight, and it was taking it's toll. Similarly, my father, now 77, was diagnosed with high blood pressure and mild heart disease when he was 74. He stopped smoking, changed his diet, bought a treadmill, and remains 30 pounds lighter than he was three years ago. He no longer has high blood pressure or any sign of heart disease. So, it's possible, but definately, easy does it for a while! I'm very glad things are progressing.

But the Lumiani ones have a tapered heel, which looks nicer, I think.

I agree with you that tapered heels look better. But it doesn't look as if it's three inches or above, which is my usual criteria.

Hi folks...

After a long time, here they are! The pictures!!!

I decided to show up my face here too.

Just remembering: I'm crossdressed, maked-up and everything, but it was a costume party. I'm not a real crossdresser. So please, the images should be funny. Crossdressed friends, don't consider it an ofense please. I like you all!

Well, here they go! Of course other people's faces are blured because they don't want to appear on the internet.

Many thanks to all of your replies and sorry for this too late picture posting. I'm vey busy at the new work these days...

Takes a lot of guts to post a non-you you! I'm sure the heels felt fine, though...

It is terrifying the first couple of times you do it. But the shops are there to sell shoes and if you're buying, most of them don't care.

That said, I still do most of my buying online. I still get nervous buying heels in a brick-and-mortar store.

I'm still slightly nervous, but much less so, as I usually do my buying while away in other cities in which I don't live.

There are no standards as to what constitutes a US 13 or UK 11 in women's sizes. The decision is based largely on market experience and the choices made by the manufacturer. Most choose to go with some sort of average, but a few tend to make their's larger or smaller than average. Hopefully, all fashion houses will convert to metric, with a comparable accommodation for what constitutes differing widths (proportion of instep girth to length? Duh...) It's not rocket science, but apparently fashion designers are either ill-equipped or unwilling to check out basic algebra. "It's art, not science," says one as he floats by on riches made by unsuspecting customers who thought they'd be getting a size 13 and in reality, it was a size 12, marked a size 13 on the whim of a fashion designer... I think Zappos feedback has done a great job of calling them to task, however. A lot of companies have begun adjusting their sizes in response to the comments posted there, as a failure to do so would have resulted in lost sales.

Actually, Imperial units have all but fallen by the wayside, particularly since the British adopted the Metric system in 1995. The US system is alive in well, at least in the US. I grew up with the US system (inches, feet, yards, miles, pounds, etc.), vastly prefer the metric system, having initially been exposed to it in the 6th grade and well grounded in it throughout college.

Mathematically, yes, dr1819 - but why the difference and what is the relationship between the US and imperial measures? The long decimal suggests something more complex than a simple fractional reduction (to short-change gullible settlers?)

Ah... I see what you're getting at.

The Wikipedia article on Imperial Unit has the answer. Scroll down to Measures of Volume and see also Current Use of Imperial Units.

Well, we did stop at the toe-licking, and it was done on a dare by her own husband, with whom I'd worked a few years back, so it really wasn't an "orgy." Still, I thought it was funny that here I was in heels, he'd given me this challenge, then his wife actually gave into it, offering up her feet for the ordeal, and appearing to enjoy it immensely!

It was more in jest than anything else, but the entire evening was filled with stuff like that, from all corners, so we had a blast.

The next morning, his wife drove me home the next day, as the girl I'd gone to the party with with split rather than staying the night! Her loss, as the party continued (non-orgasmically but rather enjoyably) for a few more hours after she left and before we all crashed. Good, clean fun. We even went so far as to play Spades! Woohoo!

Nice pic, but I thought it would say Rui across the moniker...

Okay, now no male is allowed to post ANYTHING in the "girls'" forum for any reason. Supposedly that will bring back women to posting there. Well, what kind of women post there, based on what I've seen so far of course?

Actually, a few years ago, before uncontrollable men drove them off, there was a rather large contingent of women who posted there regularly, on a wide variety of quite good, healthy, wholesome, female-heeling topics.

They enjoyed themselves, and life was good.

Along came a bunch of dudes who thought that because they wore heels and other feminine clothing they could post there willy-nilly.

The women felt violated, robbed of their territory, and almost all of them left.

Since this is a site about heels, not about males who wear heels and who outnumber the women in the women's section by 5 to 1, we came up with this rule to restore balance to this website.

Please respect our decision.

If you want to see what the fuss was about, check the older threads with similar topics in the female forum. That person and I really went at it. I'd gotten tired of the same old refrain and so many of the other posters were scraping and grovelling that I just couldn't ignore it anymore.

To the admins: I've noticed you are deleting men's posts on older threads there brought back up. I am asking you to not do that, please grandfather those threads in. For one thing, they were made before the rule change. Secondly, it throws the metre/continuity off of the thread immensely. Thank you.

From what I've seen, older threads prior to the moratorium date have indeed been grandfathered.

There may be a slip here and there, but that date was very well discussed and will be honored. I'll bring up possible slips on the moderator's forum.

Thank you.

He returned with 2 pails and the explanation that the 5 gal. bucket wouldn't hold it all.

My problem is that I still can't figure out which is the more correct: the Imperial system or the US system?

From Google: 1 US gallon = 0.832673844 Imperial gallons

There's your answer!

Yes, and I can show you how, using the Masonic system of organization the year our nation was founded is actually 666.

I'm not kidding if you don't believe me - PM me and I'll show you the three steps it takes to translate the numbers.

But hey, Guy N. Heels, this is a message forum about heels, not the end times. If you want to discuss the end times, I really would be happy to share that with you.

In the meantime, please refrain from verbose politics such as your message here.

Thanks!

Guy N Heels...

OK...I've GOT to ask...What is your profession?

Judging by the dissertation on the various measurement systems employed throughout the world I would have to guess either mathematician or physicist.

Happy Heeling!

Shoeiee

FYI, US Engineers have been taught and have been using the International System of Units since the late 1970's. While some manufactures (mainly the automotive industry) have held steadfastly to US units, most other industries in the US have adopted metric for every screw, nut and bolt.

You might find the following useful.

Yes, it would certainly be nice if the fashion industry were the adopt the metric system, in centimeters, for pretty much everything, as this is what the world has gone to. For shoes it would the tenth's of centimeters.

Again, right you are. Just one small example: when I was shopping around for office space for a company I was working for, one of the questions that came up fairly early was whether or not both men and women would be using the office. Since I didn't understand the significance of the question, I asked what difference it made? That's when I was informed that local laws required separate rest rooms for each sex in the office.

Now try and contrast this, and also appreciate my cultural shock with when I first went into a public rest room in Okinawa only to find both men and women there! Apparently they totally believe in equal opportunity rest rooms. Even though I have long-since overcome that incident, you may be sure that I've never forgotten it.

Man, does this bring back memories! Like the time about five years ago while visiting a bar with friends. The ladies' room was caput, so they just nailed the sign next to the sign on the guy's room.

The problem is, the guy's room didn't have doors on the stalls.

About nine guys, and in walked a lady, who was wriggling because she just absolutely had to go, and before she got a third of her request to use the bathroom, the guys were all yelling, "yes, of course - go! We don't care!" so she made herself at quite at home and took care of business, as did the several gals behind her.

Interesting night, as I probably revisted this restroom another four times before the night was over, and the ratio over the evening rapidly approached 50%...

"Okinawa" and "equal opportunity rest rooms."

Man, does this bring back memories! Like the time about five years ago while visiting a bar with friends in Korea. The ladies' room was caput, so they just nailed the sign next to the sign on the door to the guy's room.

The problem is, the guy's room didn't have doors on the stalls.

About nine guys were in there taking care of business, and in walked a lady, who was wriggling because she just absolutely had to go, and before she got a third of her request to use the bathroom, the guys were all yelling, "yes, of course - go! We don't care!" so she made herself at quite at home and took care of business, as did the several gals behind her.

Interesting night, as I probably revisted this restroom another four times before the night was over, and the ratio over the evening rapidly approached 50%...

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;-)Playing with the team of my chess club I was wearing several times high heels. Some opponents from the other team looked at me like this icon The most of them had better looked upon than under the table... my winning rate on heels is definetely better than with sneakers. My newest secret weapon for chess tournaments!

That's the way to confound their brains, Micha!

Sooner or later, I'm sure we'll meet up, too.

Men with painted toes is much like earrings were in the early seventies. Only the very cool blokes did it but now everyone does.

"Everyone?"

I've done both, and perhaps it'll catch on, in time, but right now, I think heels on guys have the lead, statistically speaking...

You really think more guys paint their toes than wear heels?

tubehead Great story there!

Just a thought. Maybe you want to add in the parts about Gaultier in the 90's putting men in stilettos down the catwalk, Rick Owens designing 4" heels for men in Fall 2006 line, Hedi Slimane of Dior Homme adding in his own 6.5cm heel for men, YSL selling their "Johnny Boots" with around a 3" heel like hotcakes, acne jeans of Sweden photographing men in heels in their current jeans collection, Gaultier's 2002 Fall runway showing men in kitten stiletto heels...It might help to add some credibility. Again, just a thought.

Dude - you're like this walking encyclopedia of fashion history. It's absolutely terrific, and I'm in awe.

Really! I couldn't do that...

I'm sorry, but the boots don't appear to be on the Payless site anymore, and I didn't copy a photo to my Photobucket album. Sorry.

Sounds like you're married to the girl of your dreams! I'm best friends with the girl of my dreams. She accepts me for who I am, made her most recent pass at the possibility of us getting together less than 5 hours ago, and has been, and will remain one of the best friends I've had in the last 22 years of my life. Sadly, for me, it's just "not there" for me with her, although if I sprang the question she'd bust a gut telling me yes. Yet another girl, half as interested in me, and probably not supportive of my interest in heels (she doesn't know) commands my interest. Ain't life fickle?

I'm posting this because I noticed some of you apparently enjoy watching yourselves, whether it's in pics or on YouTube. Every time I don a pair of heels, I do take a look in the mirror, but it's usually brief, just a last check that everything is coordinated, and I usually don't repeat that, but rather, go about my business. Whose experiences are the same, or different, and why?

this is thursday, i've been wearing these 6 inch heel cupid boots since noon and the time on this computer reads 430 and i believe it cause my feet are killin me!

that is it.

i am done.

i've been wearing 6 inch heels every day since last week and not only can my feet not take it, my legs too!

the balls on my feet are raw!

so that's it.

i'm done.

i don't know how women do it in there higher than 4 inch heels, how they do it every day. i've been wearing mine and whew!

all i can dream about is putting my feet up.

regarding another post here on the guy thing: were can a guy wear his heels...

how about out on the street where everone else wears their heels.

i've been wearing mine for at least a week in the capital city and i've heard some weird comments but i've heard some good ones too.

so who cares?

just wear your heels in plain view.

Yeah, this is good evidence that even a dedicated heeler can get what's called Peripheral Neuropathy

The best solution, as is mentioned above, is to mix it up. Wearing high heels all the time is not healthy.

There's always the bus...

Ok, I'll wear skirt, heeled boots, and will even re-pierce my left ear, but only if he'll let me play my bongos and run the sound board (quite good at both).

It'd be worth it.

Great! I bet the show had an amazing energy...

Krapsparov said he is going to try to make the heel meet in London too.

Hmm, maybe we can put Krapsparov in touch with Rui Leonardes...just brainstorming.

Perfect! Someone needs to book him and his whole band for a gig in London. Yeah, it's a working trip, but it would both pay for his trip and give us all an excuse for a gathering.