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That or try steel toed work boots. No spikes to get snagged on stuff.

70's style platforms coming back? Time to dig up the old ABBA albums, and relearn the Hustle dance.

Over militaristic look for a trench coat? How about the detective look like Sherlock Holms, Columbo, or worse Inspector Clouseau.

18 hours ago, Isolathor said:

Let´s bring the topic back from ancestry to legs and heels. @StockingTop can you chime in? Others as well of course.

 

I though the best kind of fertilizer for potted shoes was Kiwi Shoe Polish.

Ukrainian budget airline? Write your will and make certain your life insurance payments are up to date, before you board their Soviet era ex Aeroflot plane.

There are several places where you can find heels with spurs on the web. Fetish/ dominatrix  sites that are not PG-13 like this one.

I can understand why medical professionals and food manufacturing plant employees like to wear Crocs- slip resistant and easy to clean after use in a messy environment.  But never as street wear.

Just convert the garage into your shoe closet. When you run out of room there, dig a basement and add an attic.

1 hour ago, Histiletto said:

As far as I'm concerned, any outfit with the wearer's preferred heels would look great, at least to them. 

 

Check out these historical men's leggings. They aren't so difference from today's choices

Back then it was the ladies who hid their legs under long dresses, and admired the men's legs in their tights. 

If only we knew back in the days when we were crazy kids that some of our sister's Barbie Dolls, their shoes and outfits would be worth a small fortune to collectors when we became mature adults. 

On 8/20/2021 at 4:28 PM, Jkrenzer said:

The U.K. is a micro country yet accents across it are huge compared to the other "English" speaking countries. Pardon me for saying the "English are the most offensive of their own language".

Only an Englishman would say "phonetic spelling" shedual in place of skedual and skool in place of shool. Go figure.

Also, language evolves like anything else so slang is not a problem, it's evolutionary like it or not.

Then you go into Scotland and their 'English' is barely understandable. Try reading Robert Burns as he originally wrote his poems. 

This entire mater of humans wearing shoes will require the intense study by sociology and philosophy professors, take decades to work out,   and produce results that are unintelligible to ordinary mortals.  

On 7/14/2021 at 3:39 AM, tina said:

a very chunky 3 inch wide by 3 inch by 6 inch high heeled platform of 2 1/2 inches mary jane  with taps added to them as well.

Reminds me of late 70's disco clunkers. 

45 minutes ago, p1ng74 said:

I don’t make a special point of drawing attention to my boots on facebook, but when I posted this one of my adventure last night I didn’t exactly hide them:

My boots with 3.5” heels have made appearances on my feed but I am pretty sure this is the first time the ones with 4” heels have shown up.  I wasn’t dressing up for any occasion here, I just threw the boots on to finish the job of moving him across the road, but some of my friends made comments about my outfit lol.  

Killing the varmint with that size of a cannon doesn't leave much to eat on it.  

Reminds me of late 1970's men's disco platform shoes. 

With a pair of the smooth soled slippers on the left, you can turn your indoor polished hardwood or linoleum floors into a skating rink.

Crocks, Uggs and Birkenstocks all share the same hideous DNA that is too ugly to go extinct.   

Helen? She is worth launching a thousand ships.

4 hours ago, spikesmike said:

5150PLB1 : Question . Were you in the military ? If so , Did your commander wear high heels to deceive his opponent ? Mike

Yes I am a veteran and have served in the Persian Gulf before the Gulf wars on a destroyer. Back in the day I did have an incompetent female CO at shore duty station who did wear heels.

If a military commander wishes to deceive his opponent as to his intentions, he enhances his opponent's perception of the situation and hides the reality of the situation. One of the basic tenants put forth in Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War'.

Back in  74 my junior high school social studies teacher would have a TV in the class for the students to watch the Watergate hearings live. We also had to write papers on it also.  That was not a boring history/ social studies class- we were seeing history being made.  

Yes the 70's was a crappy decade in the US- Vietnam War, Richard Nixon, Watergate, Gerald Ford  and Jimmy Carter. Awful fashion that only started to change in 77. My junior high and high school years.  

Sizing by designers and manufacturers seems to be a form of Voodoo science, with the practitioners of the art unable to make up their minds on how to standardize it.

It's like 'Thing' from the Addams Family decided to grow a body.

1970? That's the middle of the dark ages for heeling.