Tacchi Alti

2 minutes ago, jeremy1986 said:

oops - don't get into trouble on my account! 

She won't be with me. I'm driving to someone else's house and four of us are travelling together. The alternative is these, but they're noisy and have pointed toes. Perhaps the next time!

2 minutes ago, jeremy1986 said:

Yes, with your trousers down I don't thing they are so visible. Go on then - choose these!

I'll go for it, but for some reason my wife hates them. I'll have to smuggle them into the car and start off in my wedges.

2 minutes ago, jeremy1986 said:

They look great @Tacchi Alti

I don't think they are so noticeable - you will probably get away with them unless they make too much click clack on the floor.

They're amazingly quiet actually. The most noticeable will be walking from the car to the venue. Inside there will be enough noise to mask it. It's just that the heels are more visible, but then I've worn 4-inch block heel Oxfords with friends around.

6 hours ago, CAT said:

Ok I’ll do it ,,,,,,,  I dare you !!!!!!

lol

CAT

It would have to be someone who would be present! I'm wondering about wearing my new block heeled boots instead of my usual wedges. They're still fairly quiet, but of course the heel would be much more obvious.

For most women, high heels are just another of the huge range of items of clothing available to them, to be worn as and when they feel like it. For most men, heels are just the silly things some women wear to wreck their feet, and they mostly don't even notice what a woman (or a man) is wearing. We on this site have a passion for heels, and probably find it difficult to understand why women are so blasée about them. Also we probably wear heels higher than 98% of the female population have ever worn, so it sets us in a very small category of marginally over 2% of the entire population. Most women are probably completely baffled by our desire to wear them, particularly that high, as they have no such desire, so they regard us as freaks, perverts, gay, etc. These same women would be very disparaging about their own gender wearing serious heels, who must be either hookers or stark raving mad.

I'm often wearing the highest heels around, and at company conferences (c. 4000 people present) I have higher heels than most, although events such as that are when a lot of women dress up, and I've seen some glorious heels there! I'll be in my 4.5 inch wedges with a business suit at one of these bashes this coming Saturday... I just wish someone would comment on them! I might JUST be persuaded to wear stilettos if one of them dared me to wear them...

7 hours ago, JeffB said:

Yes, ive measured the heels, and they do indeed clock in at four inches, a comfortable height for walking and standing for prolonged periods.

You've probably got larger feet than some here, so a four-inch heel looks less in relation to the angle of the foot. On my feet (UK8) the equivalent look would require a heel more like three inches.

14 hours ago, SF said:

Italiano???  ha ha   Have fun in your heels, I do.....    Take care, sf

That's me too... :-)

A very interesting post, Histiletto. My liking for heels didn't start until I was about 12 or 13, when I secretly tried on a pair of platform sandals owned by the sister of one of my friends, but I was hooked for life. Fortunately my wife accepts most of the heels I wear publicly but if I wear stilettos or other more feminine styles she says I shouldn't wear them if I'm not happy for our friends and family to see them.

HeeladdictBe is suffering from the sort of female thinking which we males cannot fathom. Say you wore men's flat lace-up shoes to bed, for her benefit, would you say to her that the shoes were more important to her than you were? You won't change her thinking! If you continue to love wearing heels, you'll be constantly frustrated by living with someone who constantly exercises emotional blackmail, as in stopping having sex. I'm sure most here have had a purge on their heels at some time, throwing them away for someone else's sake, then regretting it and buying more. Don't get trapped in a relationship where you can't both express yourselves freely. It's a two-way matter. One problem is that if she wears heels for you she's doing it just to gratify you, and it shows. She resents it. My wife would ask me what I'd like her to wear, but what I liked was very different from what she liked, and I said to her just to wear what she liked, as if she liked sexy clothes and heels she'd be confident in them, and that confidence attracted me far more than the martyr attitude of someone who was doing things just to please me and didn't like the clothes at all.

9 hours ago, mlroseplant said:

Our most usual (and preferred) route is DSM - ORD - ICN - HAN. Well, it's the cheapest, anyway. 

 

Upon our our arrival to my mother-in-law's house in Hanoi, some 30 hours after we left our own house, I ventured upstairs briefly to start putting some of our luggage in the bedroom. Halfway up the stairs, I stumbled slightly, prompting a "BE CAREFUL!" from my wife. 

I said it must be these doggoned flat shoes--I'm not used to wearing them. This elicited a very slight chuckle, rather than "the look." Progress comes in small increments sometimes. 

Yes, I trip more often in flat shoes!

On 07/02/2018 at 5:01 PM, at9 said:

Congratulations on the 1000. If you joined in 2002 that must make you one of the earliest members.

I've been here since 2006 and have a few hundred posts.

I also joined in 2002, but took several years' 'holiday' from the site. Sadly some of the most inspiring people, of both sexes, have gone, but there's plenty of fresh blood.

Great sandals, and I'm sure you enjoyed your walk. I hope you get many more occasions to wear them.

@Huhwhat Shy????

15 hours ago, Cali said:

LMAO...thank you Tacchi Alti!!! I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

I love a challenge in heels. One last year was a hump-back bridge over a stream. The gradient was about 1 in 2 and I was in 4 inch heels. Did it... The piers in SF in stilettos? You might have to zig-zag down Lombard Street rather than take the footpath. Crossing the road on a steep hill is another challenge. In platform stilettos it would be a bit hairy!

14 hours ago, heelguypa said:

LOL, yes it might be a real challenge, I guess we could try. she wants the pink shoes for a fancy night out, pinstripe suit, shirt, tie coordinated with the shoes. For dinner and drinks.

She is getting a shoe list together of must wear shoes for several occasions and then day shoes, but there is no harm in mixing it up and trying different things, also she slowly realizing that luggage space is limited, lol, and there will be shopping involved during the trip. Specially I think the Louboutins we purchase should come back in their original boxes, other shoes that purchase not necessary.

You are so, so lucky! I usually wear fairly restrained styles (eg wedges or block heels) in public but if I was dared, and had the person that dared me with me, I'd wear almost anything so long as I could walk reasonably well in them. That means nothing over six inches with no platform.

Well, it would certainly do that... Who would get charged with murder?

Do you think his ankles might wobble a bit?

3 minutes ago, Shyheels said:

I want to see someone do a triple jump in stilettos - now that would be sight to see...

They would have to be very rigid boots!

16 hours ago, Cali said:

I know a woman that can run in stilettos, I can jog in wedges and almost run in some of my 4 inch boots and booties.  Oh, the skills one CAN learn to do.

There are Youtube clips on how to run in heels. Main thing is to avoid putting the heel down, as that's when you'd break an ankle. I'm sure many here have seen videos of the high heel races. Some can run at an amazing speed; you also see people who've fallen over!

I am sooooo envious of you, and I'd love to walk in either of those pairs in SF. The hills would be a delightful challenge, particularly in the pink ones, where you have the higher centre of gravity of the platform to contend with! I can picture you in Lombard Street...

On 22/01/2018 at 10:41 AM, jeremy1986 said:

Running in wedges like that could cause you harm!

I'll bet your tower over your meeting counterparts in those 

Not if you know how to run in them! I'm not tall so most people are still taller than me. They only raise me about 2.5 inches.

2 minutes ago, jeremy1986 said:

yup - they look very comfy

They are. I hardly know I'm wearing them until I need to run...

4 minutes ago, jeremy1986 said:

Well, they are great wedges!

I mean these, which are my daily wear.

Just wondering whether to wear them to a business meeting tomorrow or wear my usual wedges... I expect it will be my wedges as I don't want to freak too many people out, even if most of them are pretty open and non-judgmental.

Thanks for the tips. I just had the oil (olive oil) right there so used a tiny amount. The zips are much freer now anyway after a few careful movements of the tab up and down. I have them on today under floor-length trousers (not boot-cut jeans, which are my usual wear). Obviously I've hiked the right trouser leg up to show the heel - the hems aren't that different!  

3 minutes ago, Shyheels said:

Very nice! If you were to wear those under jeans, except to the abbreviated length of your foot, I doubt many people would ever notice.

Most wouldn't, and I'd be surprised, though rather gratified, if anyone mentioned them to me. They are also quite quiet - quieter than some men's shoes I have. They're easy to walk in. Just one thing is the zips, which are really stiff to start with. I put a drop of oil on mine as I was afraid of breaking the tag on the zip, which is exactly what I did with another pair the same I bought a few weeks ago. I had to put a split ring on the zip, so it's serviceable but not elegant. I didn't show my wife those as I wasn't sure about her reaction. The boots were still available so I thought I'd get another pair while they were still around, and do it openly. Might get another pair too if the feedback from my wife is favourable, as they are about the most masculine 4.5 inch boots I've seen. I just wish they were leather, but then they wouldn't be so cheap if they were.

I got these off Ebay for just over £10 delivered. The arrived yesterday and I've got them on now at work. 4.5 inch block heels and round toes. Perfect apart from the fact that wedges would be more subtle. My wife just said 'MORE boots' but hasn't commented one way or the other.