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i find i feel more restricted wearing my heels, ie shorter more careful balanced steps but thats the fun of heels. i only own 4.5in pairs (3). This is my enjoyment height and anything under 4in seems almost flat anyway, so i dont really bother with them usually. Im either shy when i chicken out and wear trainers, or a bold mood where i think stuff it and enjoy myself in 4.5inches, not usually not in between. I did try 5.5in on my truip to leatherworks and for a bit of fun around the house they would be acceptable, but for any walking distance i think i wouldnt be able to manage without the practice

he he cheers experts. i tried standing in them im the bath of warm water but it didnt do that much. will try your ideas but i have to say as much as i try my perfection for wood crafting isnt that spectacular. I usually prefer to stick with cars, computers and banking....the things im good at The boots ive got are the same black ones i wore on our last london trip, but in size 8 instead of tighter 7, to help my feet be happier and they are much more roomy. 4.5inches. im going to get the plastic heeltip replaced with metal ones so i can do what stilettos are supposed to do and make some NOISE! daz

christ this is like playschool

i have just purchased some stiletto boots. Pleased to say my foot fits nicely in them apart from the very front nearing the point, the height of the toe box becomes very flat and causes the toe to be a bit squashed. T know the moulding is on this particular bit, any ideas to remove a bit of flatness?? open to the experts....

i agree and have experienced that myself along with the gang and my own outings. Its much easier when you can wear heels as part of your everyday life to enjoy as you go about your business, enjoying it as an addition to what you are doing, just like women can do anytime. When you do it on disused roads, at 3am, dark paths etc, its not as fun cos youre always on the watchpost for any living object in case you have to hide from them as they musnt see you, believe me ive been there and done it, and the it doesnt compare to the enjoyment of the real thing. (Ps to anita etc, this post was never about wearing skirts i think there was a muddle up there) Daz

i know and it can put you down at times too. I dont see how it has to be that way

excellent account indeed spikes. i can bet the girls make such a fuss about it as they dont expect a man to be able to walk in heels, as about half of the ladies struggle in small heels themselves. Thats when the nice feeling for me steps in, when i can cause a bit of jealousy to the women, as beforehand it was me jealous of women been able to wear what i couldnt. Without this site i wouldnt have ever had the courage to spep out for the first time Daz

to bubba re above, i agree fully, and was not disputing the fact that we should tell our partners first. I simply meant (with the line that you quoted) from the thread of telling your gf where the chaps girlfriend said she wasnt accepting him in womens shoes etc, women never have to be judged or accepted my their bloke what they choose to wear. Why shouldnt it be the same for men. Brings us back to what i said about equality, and its about as far from equal as we can get, as it just favours women. Also re wehat coolshoes posted on a womans opinion of the women wearing mens clothes etc, i think its a prime example. I wouldve been the first to ask about where the equality was there. Obviously a case of closed minded people as firefox would put it! daz

its a bit like that for me. although its not poshness or anything, my area has the culture type where everyone takes the piss out of everyone. its the way people are. they even warn new work starters about what the people are like here, therefore i dont risk the hassle from the people, especially as id know about 1/4 of people i passed if i was to walk round town, which is why my heeling is often away from home. I can put up with people laughing etc, its just the aggression i fear, as im a young lad (just 21 ) and other young louts im sure woud take the opportunity to have a pick

very well summed up

excellent picture. a change too, most pictures the public see of men in heels is where the picture has been made so that the man looks outrageous and daft, not like when the streetheelers stick their usual fashions. anyway back to topic, i can run short distance in heels, but then i become ankle concious

an addition to what robert said above, men and womens equality and rights is basically a stand out by a few groups of women, fighting to get the same and more than men, and in most areas already succeed. This is proved by the fact that it is ok for women o wear what they please and look in the direction of a man, but if a man sways the same way and displays feminine items, he is branged gay or metrosexual, and people assume it is out of the norm. Why is it ok for women to look like men but men cant look as women. Similar thing in the section not so long ago about telling your girlfriend etc, and there was loads of threads saying that the guy should accept whether his girlfriend chooses to accept him or not. I mean cmon, when do we EVER have to accept a woman for what she chooses to wear. Equality to me spells give more rights to women

hardcore fox, saying that foxes tend to sleep in the winter.

i know what we encourage and i agree we dont need excuses. i was simply commenting on a story i once read, apparently true.

naughty!

thought this deserved its own thread as its cropping up in lots of different postings. Having read some suggestions that people give medical reasons, eg the doctor told me to wear higher heels to help my bad back etc. I remember once reading an article where a lad was born witth some condition which is a similar symptom to the shortened tendon,ie hard/painful to walk flat footed but ok when arched. The hospital was to make some specialist heeled shoes for the condition, but because of the custom requirements etc, they were too be very expensive, therefore the fella just bought womens heels to solve the problem. daz

an amusing article indeed but hardly necessary for the sole purpose of staying with fashions. Surgery is to correct things that are wrong healthwise, not so that you can make your toes more receptable to the tight point of a shoe. These women who join the doctors queues cannot be all there in the head.

i think that how people react is how it is described sometimes. If you say crossdress, people normally associate it with an image of a drag queen or some other lily savage which most of us heel men wouldnt be interested in at all. Jade wouldnt put up with me trying to look like a woman because she is female and attracted to male... therefore wouldnt find me attractive if i was trying to look or bel like a woman, but understands that wearing the heels like i do which are mostly hidden anyway, i dont look any less of a man even in my stilettos, and the look can be quite acceptable if you study the image. just my thought daz

thanks all, actually i am going for a little trip to the coast today, heeled of course!

Today (4th) is my 21ST Birthday just thought id announce. I feel older than i should be Daz

mm, wheres theresblame theres a claim, so indeed be careful. But i cant see anyone young wanting to travel round the country for our meets. Speaking of meets, whats the next we have scheduled?

I think it can be put that gay lades do tend to act more feminine, (we have 2 at our work) take interest in girly things and hang out with girls instead of with lads playing football etc, so i can understand the assumption that people would thing that a gay man interested in girly things would be more likely to be wearing heels, but as we have said its not the case. Actually during a small shoe discussion in the staff room with the girls and Paul (one of the gay lads) he actually asked what it was like to wear heels and what it felt like, and all the women were saying that they kill your feet etc, and they dont know how charlotte totters round the office in 'them' shoes all day. I laughed loud in side. Charlotte wears 3 in stiletto pumps every day. hardly the height of discomfort Daz

i personaaly think it all stinks. ive read all the threads and am impressed by the opinions and the reasoning is excellent. its the type of subject that gets me riled up inside sometimes. Sometimes makes me wish i was born a woman and not having these problems. the world seems to swing the scales in favour of women for nearly anything now.

ive tried x dress very briefly and failed miserably, probably because like firefox i didnt enjoy it and it was a simple cover up for the heels. I prefer male mode and can say i enjoy it more than tryig to appear as a woman, even though i can probably walk as good as if not better than some women in heels

interesting topic, as i bet every girl in the nightclubs etc is in heels of some form as its an essential to the outfit, so i think we could expect a few stumbles, but most seem ok with it.