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Jkrenzer

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  1. I've had the same issues with outer materials peeling. Agreed about quality of the materials and the fact that I wear older shoes when not wearing my Chinese spike stilettos. I love my 5 inch stilettos but they do wear out fast.

    Most of my older better built (structurally) heels are Pleasers and they are well known for surface issues. 

    All that said, I'm still fine with the situation. I'm financially in a good place to keep a steady supply of new not so well made heels coming in.

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  2. Cali may have been asking how many worn out pair you haven't parted with yet. Whether it be due to sentimental values or just hoping they'd somehow cure themselves and keep going. I have several that sort of fall into the 2nd category. Can't get replacements and I seem to deem them to still be presentable. 

  3. 1 hour ago, mlroseplant said:

     

    Anyway, that was a lot of background to say that no, nobody wears heels anymore. Not for real. You do occasionally see somebody who is pretending that she's wearing heels.

    The ladies can't compete. I'm the only high heel person in mixed company most of the time. 

    I believe the high heel industry has stayed alive by selling collectibles that are stored in closets for the most part.

  4. 1 hour ago, HappyinHeels said:

    There was “Boot Hill” not too far from our house in Yuma and now there’s “Heel Hill”. A place where we honor our treasured, and seriously-worn, heeled footwear. Maybe they adorn a post in your yard? HinH

    Heel hill, nice. May need to visit.

  5. I replace the heel tips myself. I purchased about a hundred or so taps a few years back, in bulk they are not expensive. Many of my stilettos have narrow pins, so I chuck them up in my power drill at low rpm the grind down the pin diameter with my dremel to fit whichever heel I'm fixing. I've also often use a steel cap screw on my round metal spike stilettos to great effect. 

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  6. Thought I would share this post about a very old pair of Pleaser ankle strap pumps that I have finally decided must be put out to pasture. I couldn't say how many miles I've worn these amazingly comfortable 5 inch heels, talking Melroseplant level I'm guessing. I've re-heeled these at least 6 times. Finally blew out the sole and upper part of the vamps this last week. Surprisingly they are still easy to walk in and sturdy but still long past any visual appeal.

    I think these definitely paid themselves off many times. 

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  7. Maybe reading these comments helps to jolt some of these onlookers into actual participation. 

    I don't know if images are available to non-members or not. I'm involved in other non-fashion forums that are only allow onlookers to read. One a paper model building site has no ads, sponsored entirely by the model publishing houses, so that may explain why. 

    I enjoy Melrose's nearly daily muse, but admit I'm not good at maintaining a long-term thread like my heels at work was supposed to be. I wear them daily but discussing it seems redundant. 

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  8. 22 minutes ago, CAT said:

    We have all said it,,,,,,, the crap that they put on the male models is not only ridiculous but completely impractical and I would not even see a females wearing it.  It does not help "our cause" to where a great pair of heels.  When will they showcase a guy in great pair of normal pumps, knee boots, or wedges?  Probably never,,,, so sad  

    CAT, send Vogue some of your pics from a few years back, they may get the hint. Unlike me and Melrose you have model like attributes. 

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  9. I agree. I have a much less issue as explained earlier. I'm often able to twist the Iast (the steel plate inside the shoe) but if that doesn't work I just move on to the next pair. 

    It's also really bad on tile floors. As often as I walk around in my 5 inch stilettos I don't need to have my heel slipping out from underneath me.

  10. It's a sign of  bone misalignment. The image of the red boots is real severe. I have the same issue to a lesser extent on my left leg. Given enough time my left heels almost always to the same thing. It's always my left shoes that require heel tip replacement 1st. It's a natural issue that a person must just live with. For that reason I can't put the hundreds of miles on my heels like Melrose. It doesn't matter how good the shoes are either, they all do it. 

  11. 1 hour ago, at9 said:

     

    Some recent photos of Michelle O'Neill, the new Northern Ireland First Minister, show her in possibly 4" stiletto court shoes.

    Not a petite woman by any means. 

  12. 2 hours ago, Puffer said:

    Thus demonstrating the difference between 'a man's boot' and 'a male boot'.   I suppose too that one could say about a heel-wearing man: 'one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind'.   (A pity that Neil Armstrong spoiled such an apt quote by saying '... for man ...'.)

    He said "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind'.

    The quote is accurate as he is a man and the term mankind is gender less. 

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