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Not really clogs, but I really like THESE WEDGIES that I found at Payless website the other day. Will probably buy the brown version next payday (yes, money is that tight at the moment).

The first pair of women's heels that I owned were a pair of size 12 black leather knee boots with 2-1/2" heels that I bought mail-order from Lane Bryant back about 1978.

The femalefirst forum is actually quite positive with regard to subjects discussed here, by the regular members, that is. They tend to drop your status down to "guest" if you don't post meaningfully, and alot, during your first 2 weeks of registration, and God forbid, don't piss off the management--there is no forgiveness in this life or the life to come!

No need to spend money on anti-spyware. Spybot and Ad-Aware are two of the best and they are both free. Use them both, as they find slightly different things. Zone Alarm firewall also has a free version. I do pay for anti-virus software, though. The only reason other systems don't have as many problems, yet, is that they aren't popular enough to provide an attractive target for the bad guys.

This, and using Firefox for everything except ftp to xfer html pages onto a webserver (the only thing explorer is good for in my opinion).

I also use Kaspersky and Panda antivirus software. They catch virtually everything, because they look for virus-like behavior, not just specific virus lists.

If I am going to be driving more than 30 minutes or so, I will put on some high heel platform mules I keep for the purpose, as my right knee (my gas pedal leg) aches quite badly otherwise. Yes, this actually does work! My original solution on long drives to and from work many years ago was to put my left foot under my right heel, but this eventually started causing problems of it's own with my left knee--bent at an awkward angle all the time--so I tried the high heel option and it worked.

What Rob said. Ah good, I'm back with the good looking pumps again, instead of those nasty 6" granny loafers. Some good came from loss of posts!

If our education system were the best in the world, The US wouldn't consistently place 14th in Math scores among the 15 most industrialized nations of the world. We would be having school for 220+ days a year instead of the present 170- days a year. "America is the most powerful, economical, and technological advanced country in the world" because America is a nation of innovative immigrants and innovative immigrants' descendents, not because of the education system. Actually your statement is debatable--I would categorize Japan as being more technologically advanced, for example, and their educational system is vastly superior to ours--it's just that they tend to be a nation of "copycats" not innovators, at least as far as coming up with NEW IDEAS to make money are concerned--probably has something to do with purity of the race/lack of hybrid vigor, to use a probably very applicable bit of genetic jargon.

If a company were in the habit of giving stuff to charity, then you'd have two situations. Firstly, people wouldn't buy from the shop, they'd just wait until they could get it from the charity shop or they'd buy from the charity shop and try to return it to the store for a refund.

Some firms have factory shops or stores in "outlet villages" where they may sell last season's merchandise but you will only save 20-30%.

So we all sit here, trying to pay bills, wondering about the future, and greedy companies throw away things to keep image and profit margins while we all suffer.

Bastards! All of them.

Create a freaking stamp to indicate the item as charity or non returnable and donate the items!

Seems to me that Laurie's suggestion would solve the problem handily if the stamp were fairly prominent. Alternatively, reprogram the electronic inventory microchip now put into many upscale items of clothing (or woven in) so as to read "donated to charity". And thanks Laurie. My sentiments exactly!!

My favorite Heinlein novel is Friday about a genetically engineered super-female courier who initially has a very unusual (for our day) "family", and where Heinlein coined the term "Slitch". I think it was one of his last novels.

My problem is that I started wearing fairly pointed male boots ("Spanish", then "Beatle" boots) when I was ~12, and so my big toes acquired an inward lean to them. This is a problem, I finally figured out, because my 2nd toes (corresponding to the index fingers on the hands) are now longer than my big toes; pointed toe shoes don't allow enough room for this, which causes them to "hammer up" which is quite painful. Pantihose with a lot of spandex (lycra) tends to cause the same thing. Those with high arches quite often find that a smaller size hi-heel shoe than they normally wear in lower heels actually fit better.

If I could find Thi-Hi's/Thi-Tops in nylon/lycra blend with reinforced toes, instead of just straight nylon...Unfortunately I haven't been able to. Panty hose doesn't have the right "feel" to me without lycra blended with the nylon in the legs (and it sags after a short time as well). I have never been able to find garter (suspender) stockings that were long enough to hook up to a garter belt or corset that rode where it was supposed to be at, being 6'3" tall, and somewhat long-legged. Sears Thi-Tops have always been long enough to ride at the very top of my thighs, but their garter stockings never went more than ~4-5" above my knees. Go figure. Just My Size is my preferred brand for pantyhose. I usually cut out the cotton crotch though. I did try a pair of "garter tights" for lack of a better description the other day. They were somewhat expensive, and no reinforcement in the toe, but man were they neat feeling. They have a waistband, and two straps going down to mid-thigh-hi stockings. I think the brand was Venezia. I also have several pairs of women's toe socks, and wear them quite often with my boots.

...and then there is the Zwolle Tamale Festival where the best tamales in the world can be had for very little cash (Zwolle, Louisiana, to be exact).

I agree with Bubba on this one--Wendy's chile IS pretty good. Although I'm partial to Popeye's dirty rice, myself. As for fond eating memories, nothing can compare to the disgusting-looking, but indescribably delicious boudin sausage sold in fly-encrusted roadside stands in Louisiana back in the early '80s (don't know if they're still there, or if they have been shut down as "health hazards").

Too pricey for me--but then they wouldn't be all that difficult to make, e.g. sew, from scratch. I may give it a shot. I saw some really sexy jeans being worn by a teenage girl in Pizza Hut about a year ago--they had a sort of sailor button front panel, and laced up in back. And as tight fitting and curvaceous as the Miss Sixty jeans.

Partially copied from another thread: I got my first women's high-heeled boots in late 1978 from Lane Bryant. That would have made me ~26 at the time. They were ~15" knee-hi black leather with a side zipper, plastic "stacked leather" look embossed heels, about 2.75" at the back, ~2.1" at front, size 12. Before that I had a pair of shoes remarkably similar to the "comfy loafer" avatar, and before that, a couple of pairs of decidedly feminine moccasins from Minnetonka (my feet hadn't reached their full length when I was 22--could still, barely, fit into a size 10), and a pair of canvas penny loafers, aka women's deck shoes. I also had access to a pair of my grandmother's "granny-style" wing-tip pumps when I was 12-14, though they grew too small for me as I got older (~size 7.5) and a pair of my older brother's "Spanish boots" that he bought in 1963 (later known as "Beatle Boots") with about the same heel height as the granny's--about 1.5" at front, 2" at back, though they were size 9. Finally, I had a pair of suede mens boots, similar heel height, that I got in 1967, size 10. They eventually got too small also. After they went out of fashion, my parents forbade me to wear them. I didn't, completely, kowtow to their wishes however... My first interest in girls' shoes was in the third grade--I had a crush on a Japanese-Hawaiian girl that wore black patent leather shoes--I had never seen patent leather before. Then there were the twins in the 5th and 6th grades and their white patent go-go boots...all the way to my senior year in high school coveting the brown suede knee boots of a 13-year old girl that I knew, and had a very secret crush on as well.

On a somewhat similar note, at least in shape(!) from PayLess (the black/silver goes up to size 12, the pink/silver only up to 11, unfortunately.

I bought these (dark brown leather upper) day before yesterday at my local PayLess for $9.00 (on sale!); they're selling on the net for $32.95

Not as high a heel as I generally like, but having worn them for a couple of days and "broken them in" (you can do that with real leather), I find that they are the most balanced boots I own--the heel is in EXACTLY the right spot for walking naturally--no wobble at all, even though the heel tip measures 1" x 1/2". And, I couldn't argue with the price!

Bright red boots are not generally appealing to me, but then neither is black, particularly. I buy, and wear, whatever I can find in my size (12), mostly from PayLess. I have, and currently quite often wear, a pair of mid-calf boots in "natural" with a narrow, "almost spike" heel, about 4" high at the back, frequently even to my part-time college custodial job, 0400-0800 in the morning. I can take about 2 hours in them, after which I have to switch to something lower. No objections from my supervisor (I doubt he even notices), or my Japanese female co-worker, or from the occasional professors or students that I run into. They don't cut down my efficiency of emptying garbage cans or vacuuming, and may even enhance my ability to clean windows! The point of all this is, though, that I don't feel limiited to black--unless that is all that is available--and neither should anyone else. I also recently purchased a pair of brown real leather ankle boots, and have owned boots in peanut brittle, navy denim, and a rather bright orangish deerhide suede, ratehr reminiscent of the original J-Lo Boot color. If I had my druthers, I would be owning and wearing knee boots in rust, kelly green, bright blue, and purple suede, but alas, such is not to be, unless I acquire a fortune for getting them custom made, which isn't likely.

The trick is, for low-rise jeans--don't order by the waist size--order by your hip measurement!!!

ALLOY.COM Size Chart

Plus, look at the fabric content--if there is some "lycra" in it, you can get away with a hip measurement that is an inch or so lower than your measurement--that is what true "stretch" jeans really mean, not the fake stretch cotton/polyester crap that mens jeans manufacturers have been foisting on the male public for the last 50 years.

As is noted in the size chart, these are your actual measurements, NOT THE JEANS MEASUREMENTS! All jeans include some extra for "wearing ease", generally about 2-4" more at the girth (for all cotton jeans, or 98% Cotton / 2% Lycra, less so with more lycra content (5%+).

If you insist on attempting to find your jeans at some other source (can't imagine why you'd want to do that since Alloy has just about everything you could imagine, but maybe you just have some sort of masochistic streak...), Note that for the purposes of buying hip-hugger jeans, aka "low rise", Junior sizes are comparable to "Misses" sizes one digit larger, e.g. a size 17 is roughly comparable to a Misses 18.

Hope this helps...

From the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, Overload:

This overload

I can hear your heels clicking on the sidewalk

Beating to the rhythm of my heart

Caught up to you

You're the only one I want

I follow you home every night

Just to make sure that you get there alright

Baby it's true

Can't think of anything but you

And what I need baby

Is a little bit of sympathy

CHORUS:

You got me on my knees

I burn throughout the night

And I can't live without your love

Won't you help me cure this overload

Won't you help me cure this overload

Won't yeh..........

I vote for you in a pair of boots, with heels low enough to enable locking your knees, e.g. enabling a natural style of walking, perhaps with a warrior's sword and shield...

heels sound good to me.

That's what I mean--they sound good to the WEARER, or are noticeable and embarrassingly LOUD to the WEARER, but NOT to everyone else (unless they have a heel fetish too ).

Sorry, for first time outing, I vote for the chunkies. As for the unholy clicking that everybody almost universally is afraid of (God only knows why), I have found that the sound attracts far more attention from the wearer, than from those around the wearer who are only technically within hearing distance--they simply don't notice it--any more than they notice a woman's heel clicking--it's just background noise to all but the severely fetished. Get over it--it's a non-issue.

I think the proper term for the breed is MAINE Coon Cat, not "Manx Coon" (if it were a cross between a Manx and a Maine Coon Cat, it would probably be tail-less.

Not mentioning any names, but you might be wise, firefox, to amplify what you mean, specifically, perhaps even with some of the more objectionable photos that people have gotten away with in the past at hhplace. Else they may continue to post said types of photos on the aforementioned image hosting site.

Assuming you feel that some have been objectionable, of course.