dr1819

As soon as he got off work, a guy ran into a bar and said, "Ow!"

A guy runs into a bar, huffing and puffing madly for about two minutes, but he's still running in place. "What the hell are you doin'?" asks the bartender in his Scottish brogue. "Are you thinkin' this is Gold's gym or sometin?" "No," the guy replies, still running. "But I'm competing for the world's longest duration run, and your sign said "Guinness..."... ... .. . .... ...................... . . . .. . .................... Oh, ok. I get it.

A guy runs into a bar, well, through it actually. The barkeep just locked the back door, so...

A guy ran into a bar and shouted, "Two mudders and a flubnappet!" Yeah, I didn't understand him either.

A guy runs into a bar, rebounds, then tries it again. The bartender, a relic from the Alaskan gold-mining days, was curious as to the man's antics, and asks the man his name. "Singletary!" he yells before running into the bar again.

What the heck are you doing, lad, running into my bar like that? You'll knock it down, you will!

"I'm Samurai!" the guy replied, and hit it again, moving it a good two feet off center.

"You're daft!" said the barman, after steadying himself. "Get the hell out of my bar!"

"Why should I?" shouted the guy. "Your sign says '49ers Welcome!'"

(ummm if you need this joke explained, you're not an American football fan..., but here's a big hint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Singletary)

A guy runs into a bar and shouts "FIRE!" They do. He's dead.

A guy runs into a bar. Fortunately, he wasn't going very fast, so he's fine.

David Attenborough has discovered a new tribe of Pygmies in deepest Africa. They live amongst the 6 feet tall elephant grass. Standing at just 4 feet 3 inches tall, they are called the Fuqarewees.

They keep jumping up and shouting "Where the **** are we?"

Not to be confused with a highly instrospective neighboring tribe known as the "Hudufuqarewees."

What killed it? The word "brief" or "lederhosen?"

While some folks go for the really high altitude shoes with 6 or 7 inch heels - or more (do those come with an oxygen mask?), I seriously doubt that I could manage anything above a 5" heel and then it would have to have a platform.

A couple years ago I worked my way into a five inch heel, but trying to maintain it was much more trouble that it was worth, so I now wear heels ranging from nothing to 4 inches, with my most comfortable being 3.5 inches.

Besides, at 5" I start bumping into the overheads of doorways.

PS - I especially like the higher-heeled boot and the second to last loafer.

Yeah, I know - cruddy title.

But great at marrying heels with clogs and other shoe expertise, and a man could get away wearing any one of these styles (sadly, only up to a size 42 EU).

The bloody thing's just been round again and I've had to put Rammstein on at high volume to cover the noise and get Old McSoddingDonald out of my head!

Phew, feel a bit better for that.

Chris

Intriguing intellect but they're quite the pervs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammstein

Rammstein

I think curvier people look good in heels. By curvy, I don't mean obese or melty-beast, though high heels kind of have an aesthetic associated with them. It'd be out of place for someone [male or female] and of any body type to be wearing an old t-shirt, gym shorts, and a just-got-out-of-bed hairstyle with heels, it would still look dumpy no matter how nice the heels are.

What about 4 inch cowboy boots on a man in jeans?

Agreed that tastefulness applies to all clothing, not just the heels themselves.

Slutty:

Sexy:

Questions?

And please - the first has more square inches of clothing on her than many beach patrons in the US...

...but I'd definately choose the second one over the first. Call me prude, but she just looks wonderful!

Neither sexy nor slutty:

Terrific. So now, every time you pass someone who's standing on the corner using their cell phone, the car pulls over, right where they're talking, and stops. And won't start again until they get off their cell phone.

That'll be a boon for traffic jams!

Interesting question, I suppose if he peruses this forum, he might have taken cues from me on street heeling in Maine.

Perhaps we ought to have generic cards printed up, and whenever we see another man wearing heels (almost ten times for me) we can hand them a card.

Several years ago, during an extended break, I did a set of acrylic nails after being pushed into it by my wife. I thought it was fun at the time, but it took a full three hours to take them off. Not fun. If you're going to wear acrylic nails, plan to do it full time and have them touched up at least monthly. Otherwise, go with press-ons, as it takes about a tenth the time to remove them (aka, Halloween 2004).

Agreed - that's why I usually try to buy snug leather boots/shoes, as in snug in a footie or kneehigh. Over time, these stretch into my much more comfortable cotton sock mode.

Tschuse! (as they say Cheers here in Germany!)

Hmmm... espadrilles have traditionally had a very wide heel base, while these are more like stilettos (very narrow). I thought you'd like them.

dr1819, you surprised me. If you like them enough and they are comfortable sooner or later I'll bet you'll want to try them out in public.

I'll bet you could pull off that last pair easily with one of your denim skirts.

No way. I know what I'm comfortable with, and what I'm not. Pics are fine, wearing skirt and heels is not.

Please understand that I do not consider myself a crossdresser. Rather, I consider myself both a Renaissance man as well as a progressive fashionist, meaning that since men wore heels more than 300 of the last 500 years, no one should be surprised by a man wearing heels; second, since men wore skirts at least 50,000 years of the last 50,000 years, no one should be surprised by a man wearing a skirt.

Yet when it comes to heels, society is no longer ready for it - nearly all have forgotten it's heritage. When it comes to MUGs, some of society has forgotten it's heritage.

That's the thing about fashion - it's always changing, and if it's not currently in style, it's THE BIG TABOO.

Join me in my quest to change that, subtly, one piece of clothing at a time, in a way that will garner gradual, broadscale acceptance, rather than in a way that will shock a very small sub-segment which will percolate down as ever-increasing restrictions which we'll have to fight later.

Trust me - easy does it.

To compensate for not wearing them out you can post pictures wearing them, how about it?

Absolutely!

I love bare legs. Hairy ones, too. So does my girlfriend. What in God's name else would one wear beneath a kilt???

This pretty much sums up my opinion too. Wouldn't it be terrible though if a whole slew of guys started wearing them. I couldn't stand out from the crown so easily anymore. Fortunately current shoe sizing would prevent a great majority of men from wearing them nowadays.

I'm not so sure. Two years ago I compared the number of size 13 high heels (2-3/4" and up) with the number of size 8 high heels. Results: 0.8% Today it's nearly three times higher: 2.1%.

Raw numbers:

2004 2006

13 36 275

8 4532 13355

Percent 0.007943513 0.020591539

Since the majority of men wear a women's size 13 or smaller, there are just over 4,000 distinct styles and colors that will fit a men with feet (men's sizes) of 9 through 11 (the vast majority of men).

There's a wide selection available, and getting wider as it's a slight buzz in the fashion industry about making more heels available in sizes 11, 12, and 13, as demand in these sizes has more than tripled compared to size 8 in the last 15 years. Regardless, I don't see it becoming a hot fashion trend among men, unless the industry creates and markets more masculine styles such as the Harley Davidson boots, which only began appearing in size 11 about a year ago.

Wouldn't this look nice under a pair of jeans or slacks?