Tacchi Alti

48 eu is not 17 us.

i am 6'1.5" and wear us 15 shoes. that is 50 eu.

According to this you're both wrong!

http://www.asknumbers.com/ShoeSizeWomenConversion.aspx

I think we've all found, though, that shoe sizing is not an exact science.

I thought that was Cleggology.

From a dreadful state yesterday to a much better one today.

A new addition to the Uxbridge English Dictionary:

Etymology: The study of cannibals

Which might lead to eschatology?

How do you get over the trousers suddenly being too long when you change into flats?

Of course it is! On a par with padded bras and tummy control tights.

That's a real shame, but congratulations on plucking up the courage to tell her. She might come round, especially as she doesn't seem to think that wearing ladies' watches is a big deal. Perhaps the next step (sorry) is to wear a watch on your ankle...

Videoing myself walking (yes, sad, isn't it?) I notice that the back of the trousers, which almost touches the floor when I'm standing, rides up quite a bit when I'm walking, so most of a four-inch heel shows.

I had a pair of Bertulli boots once. OK, but lift not as high as advertised and rather cumbersome to wear. It was certainly an opportunity, though, to wear heels which felt high but looked like rather frumpy men's shoes. I currently have a pair of insoles, bought off Ebay, which fit inside my cowboy boots and raise the heel from about 2.5 inches (which no one turns a hair at) to just under 4 inches. However, I don't wear them much, as they're not particularly easy to walk gracefully in, and I can manage higher ordinary heels with no problem. They're good when I'm doing a lot of standing around, though, as they obviate the backache I get standing for a long time in flat shoes.

That one's lost on me, even when you shout.

As it's relevant to this topic, this is what I've posted elsewhere http://www.hhplace.org/292595-post3891.html

Started noticing them at about 13. Tried my mother's (which my feet were small enough for then) with thin heels just over 2 inches and loved the wobbly feeling. Stayed at a friend's a year or so later and was mesmerised by his older sister's platform sandals (c. 4 inch heel and 1 inch platform), which I had to try on secretly when she was out and my friend was otherwise engaged. At about 18, I 'borrowed' a pair of lovely sandals with a stiletto heel about 4.5 inches from an on/off girlfriend while she was away and went out at night in them for a walk about a mile down a country lane. This really gave me the bug!

Just received these, bought from Ebay. Really comfortable, with a heel just over 4 inches, and silent, as they have a rubber sole and heel. I'm wearing them now in the office, which today I have to myself. :-)

I found a pair of flat black "BCBG" flash pumps. Here is a link: http://www.amazon.com/BCBGirls-BG-FLASH-BCBGeneration-Womens-Flash/dp/B0029NYNTA The shoes were $95, so I had no intention on buying them. But I decided to try them on anyhow. She mentioned that they were comfortable and that she had the same pair. She said Monday's are usually slow. So I think she was eager to help.

The link shows a rather nice shoe with a heel. Did you mean 'flat' or are these actually the shoes - at a considerably cheaper price?

hi all

all my mates and work mates know that i wear high heels so they ask me

show them.

my fist time wearing high heels out side was when i fin work on the sunday moring at 7. i got the bus to where i live and it take me about 5 min to walk to my house so i got of at the bus shop and put my high heels on my heat was raceing but it was good to wear them out side i done this about 2 time now. my high heels was from new look 5" black open toe.

Good stuff!!

New Look seem to have a good range of shoes and I must go into our local store again soon. Which ones were you wearing?

Go for it!

Some assumptions would be made due to other subject matter amongst the different family housholds within the group, but out of all the households, there are only two who have been married 25 years, and only one with no big marital problems - - mine.

Hmm, interesting. One to throw in if things got heated? I assume these are people for whom it would have been possible to be married 25 years... The more I hear of this, the more I hope you'll go through with it rather than just suggest it as something which could make them all choke on their turkey! Is that the 24th of next month? Just say you like to keep ahead of fashion and that most people will be wearing them next year because their bosses have told them that's the only raise they're likely to get.

Perhaps you should remind them of the verse, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone." You never know what secrets or lusts people have who are most vociferous in condemning others. OTOH, you might get compliments, but if you do show up in your favourite heels please do a video so that we can share the experience. Actually, Thanksgiving is an ideal time. Remind them it's not Condemnation. Perhaps this should be another thread - Hell on High Heels??

You're still saying a tiny minority of the population, and a little question comes to mind - if we were in that position, with more money than we know what to do with, would we complain about what others did? I expect there are some incorruptible altruists here, but ... Also could you really say that someone, for example, choosing to stay on benefits rather than work is any less likely to be lazy and decadent, or more likely to grow food for his/her children or use his/her brain than is a playboy? Note 'choosing': I know there are many unemployed people who would choose to work but can't find a job.

Something I just cannot understand.. 1000$ for a pair of ' shoes '?

Roughly 15% of my country is unemployed, Europe is having financial issues and people buy things like this? 100$, 200$.. sure. Some leather boots for 400ish.. fine.. But a grand for a pair of 39$ pleasers with the bottoms colored red?

Its nothing more then a ' Status Symbol ' IMO. Guess, NineWest, Aldo and others make just as good a shoe with just as much function/fashion for 1/10th the cost.

Look at it this way: target customers have more money than they know what to do with, but their buying goods takes the money out of their bank account. The banks get rich by having money which they get interest on while not paying interest to their customers.

The money they pay for these shoes (or any other goods) therefore goes back into the economy, and there are a host of people down the supply chain who benefit, and it is thriving businesses which help the economy and contribute to a fall in unemployment.

So, most people can't (or don't want to) afford them, and buy goods which may be of equal quality at a fraction of the price, but there are people who will pay silly money for anything, so why not shoes?

Couldn't quite see the connection between the poster and the clips on the website, although there was a good bit with a woman running away from him very successfully in heels which must have been at least four inches. Anyway, it's nice to see that his parents thoughtfully left him a bit of growing room in his new shoes.

Did anyone else have this thread come up as having unread messages? Is the last message really almost 3 years old, or is there a new message which is not coming up on my browser?

Very, very nice, Christine, and a lovely colour. You have good taste, and I hope you have many happy hours wearing them.

I heard you the first time!

Thanks for the warning!