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open toed winter heels? intersting combination

Don't go there unless you want to get blasted with opening pages. It opened 50 plus pages before I pulled the plu and hard stopped my computer. Virus laden.

Now that this thread has turned away from the initial point, my two cents. A lot of the issue in schools does not soley fall on the teachers shoulders. Much of it has to do with a lack of discipline at both home and at school of the kids. Long gone are the days when schools could truely discilpine students, especially in the elementary years when attitudes are learned and parents are every bit as responsible for the children not respecting their elders as anyone. (kids are not good by nature and like any animal when left to their own devices will push the limits until the boundries are defined externally). When I went to elementary in the late 60's and 70's (public school just outside Rochester, NY) paddles were still used, nobody talked back to the teachers and graduation rates were in the 90%ish range. The teacher to student ratio has been a huge failure and extremely expensive. There used to be a lot more students per teacher than there is now yet education has not benefitted. (class sizes in my school averaged 28 until later when elected courses in math and science were chosen) I believe education has slipped since the mid 90's and on for many reasons but lack of respect (usually learned via discipline) is at the top of the list. I hope I did not offend anyone.

I voted for the 1st and 4th selections. I personally love open sided pumps, and the first pair are true classic maggic. Where are these sold?

Leather is a skin, should absorb the material in much the same manner as it does mink oil. Not sure why manufacturer's would want it though. The key to manufacturing is your items need to wear out so you can make more of them. If I had the perfect pair of leather pumps, and I do, I would only need to buy them once.

Pleaser are cheaper shoes, I have had some that fit good and many that did not. Those that fit good did so at the very beginning and always stayed good and those that did not never did no matter how often I wore them. For what it is worth do not spend too much time (pain) trying to break these in. They will not break in like better quality shoes.

There are three cultures out there, those that have (and they buy these type of things so we all know it), those who don't, and then the rest of us. I'll take being in "the rest of us" category all day long and live comfortably in my Nine West's.

I agree, Aldo makes shoes for both men and women and they are in Aldo's catalog as womens. I buy and sell a lot of shoes on e-bay, allows me to keep many styles without much investment, for sizes 10-11 and 70% of my sales are not to women. Are you going to get them?

I have a few pair of those, black and brown. They are some of the sexiest and easiest to wear heels i have ever worn. I buy back up pairs on E-Bay to have them for years to come.

Every place I would normally go I go with heels as well. At 48, I just don't care so much anymore what others think, a general trend I have noticed here with others.

Those are nice, but honestly the ones in your avatar aremuch nicer. How about some info on them

Don't forget Cathering the Great. Queen Ranavalona I the Cruel - Madagasgar Elena Ceauşescu - Romania Countess Elizabeth Báthory - Hungary Queen Mary of England - called bloody Mary Elizabeth I was no saint to Irish either.

Got my Aldo Oxford's today and they do actually fit.

http://www.aldoshoes.com/us/women/shoes/high-heels/85671523-falge/97

The shoes went on relatively easy so I will wear them. Always tightest just out of the box and these are only just a bit snug so they should break in fine.

When I get them I will let you know. Our local Aldo shop does not carry the size 11's very often so I won't know for a few days.

Lately there seems to have been a lot of inconsistancy among manufacturers over size. I very consistantly wear mens US size 9, rarely 9.5. In the past this always translated to US womens size 11. However about 40% of my well fitting heels are a size 10 womens and about 40% of the size 11's are too big. I still wear the same male size regardless. My sample size of "women's" shoes exceeds 100. I believe some manufactures are starting to increase their size relative to the size number a bit, marketing. Women are more uptight about their foot size and would prefer to wear a "smaller" shoe even if it is in size number only.

Thanks for the tip Daniel, I went ahead and purchased them. If they don't fit I can return them anyway.

Just found these amazing shoes on Aldo.com http://www.aldoshoes.com/us/women/shoes/high-heels/85671523-falge/97

Want them badly in the size 11 but am nervous about Aldo as they always seem to run a bit small. Does anyone here have a pair of these in any size and are they true for you.

I currently have a pair of their pumps on now but it did several wearings to stretch the leather enough to wear them, and these shoes don't look as though they will stretch very much.

Let me know, thanks in advance.

I was at DSW last night and did just the opposite. I wore my 4.5 inch slight platformed knee high boots into the mall, was there for several hours. Anyway I stopped in DSW to buy "mens" loafers for work. I went to the mens section, sat on the flour and pulled my tight fitting boots off to try on the loafers. Once satisfied I got the pair I wanted I put my sexier shoes back on, went to the ladies clearance rack to check out some shoes then paid for the loafers then went on my business. Many people saw but there were no comments.

Excellent week, amazing when you are comfortable then everyonearound is too and rarely do people notice or care what you are wearing.

My wife rarely wears heels, she has no arches and they bother her. She loves me in mine and I don't dare disappoint. I believe if she did wear them I would still wear mine about the same amount.

Excellent look.

Where did you get those lovely heels? I would lie a pair for myself. Thanksin advance, Joe

Those are nice but classy, I think not. The same heel with the same relative heel to inner sole proportion would be so much classier and honestly much sexier without the platform. I love my heels but platforms are not as comfortble, no flex under the ball of the foot, nor are they as sexy as my non-platformed pumps. The new platformed shoes are fine (not 70's plats) but still hold no comparison to heels with regular soles.

I voted stiletto like most others. I would wear the riding but the original is not even attractive. Thinner heels are actually better balanced and more comfortable with all else being the same, i.e. heel height and shoe shape.