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My ex-girlfriend sometimes tolerated, and sometimes encouraged. Now I am single again, I don't think I could / want to share my life with someone who couldn't even tolerate it. Seems I'm going to remain single for a big while...

It takes courage to wear for the 1st time in many environments. Once you get past the hurdle and you portray that confidence I think it becomes easier and your responses to questions more natural.

I took a gradual approach in work......sounded out some of my colleagues views on similar topics in the hope that I would know what to expect. Then I started to wear items of clothing that were androgynous, progressing initially to women's trousers/jeans and suits with fairly ambiguous female shoes.

The nylons were the big giveaway for me and once they knew I wore nylons it was a short step to heels, skirts dresses etc....

The women were great even though they did not always understand my rationale......the men were stand offish initially and as I have said in previous posts once they realise you are still the same person they treat you the same.......although they do tease occasionally.

It has prompted some interesting conversations and taught a few more people to be open minded and less judegmental. /I refrained from using the word Bigot given the trouble Nick Clegg finds himself in today)

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Right, the gradual approach seems to be the best way to avoid shocking colleagues.

That's the way I've chosen too, but I never went as far as wearing nylons+dresses/skirts, because that's just not me.

I also got questions and gentle teases about my jeans and shoes, but that is part of the way to acceptance : what is unusual is somehow puzzling.

I dyed my hair recently, and I got questions and gentle teases too, although it's much less unusual for a man to do that. People interact, that's life

The question is : could your parents care about your shoes or clothes or appearance more than about you ?

What is the difference between a midheel and a high heel?

I think a high heel is 4" and up. Would that be correct?

According to most brands, low heels are up to 2", and high heels 4" and above. Then mid heels are between low and high heels :-)

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Haha, reminds me something fun I did once : I put headphones on and I went heeled to make some shopping down town. But I had no music playing in my headphones so I could hear a few people commenting quite loud as they supposed I couldn't hear them because I was listening to music :-) Not too much negative comments in fact, I thought it would have been worse.

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I think there is no point in having knee high boots if you don't show them off.

I disagree : knee high boots keep warmer than ankle boots, and I like the feeling of snug knee high boots on my legs.

Not only the chinese.

I browsed the Newlook internet website and found a lot of shoes in size "UK9 / EU 43".

But on the french website, nothing was available in a size larger than 42.

Then I went in a Newlook store, I understood : the shoes are labelled with both UK 9 / EU 42 for some and UK 8 / EU 42 for others, in the same store, on the same rack, two adjacent boxes of the same brand.

I discussed with a colleague of mine who has very small feet, so small she also buys her heels online. Her strategy is to buy 4 pairs of diffrent sizes and colors each, and resend the ones that do not fit or try to resell them on ebay / give them to friends.

I see why it is so much more profitable to open a web store than a real store : not only you don't have to rent for the place, but also your customers buy twice as much as the customers in a real store....

I own several New Look shoes (I love that brand), and I find that :

UK 9 shoes are EU42 / 42,5

UK 9 Wide shoes are EU 43

Each brand sizes and fits differently and I think it needs time and trial to "learn" how.

When I met my ex-girlfriend, I was a closet heeler. I told it to her very soon in our relationship so it wouldn't be a problem later. And it hasn't been a problem during our relationship. Now I regularly wear heels and it's quite clearly visible for any woman before we even might start a closer relationship. Like Steve said, she can take it into account from the beginning, and decide if she likes it or not, or if she doesn't care. Besides, heels are acting like a filter that rejects people who aren't open-minded !

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Not much snow here, but I had to when I was in holidays in Japan. I was wearing Skechers Mesa ankle boots and I had no issue at all.

Nike shox are very sexy...

Errrr... I completely disagree with that. Sport shoes are a complete turn-off for me

But that's just my taste

Pfft! Women wear noisy heels in church all the time, and I'm sure they don't worry about that showing a lack of respect. Why should you feel differently?

Because I feel it like that : churches are supposed to be quiet places where people commune and pray aren't they ? And I think noisy heels might disturb this quietness and praying people.

However, that's just my opinion, others do and think what they want to, including women who don't worry about their noisy heels.

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I have nothing to do in churches except maybe visiting them. However, if I had to step into a church, I think I won't dare to do it with noisy heels because I would consider it as a lack of respect.

The heel is a part of every shoe (except maybe for heelless shoes like discussed here). "Low", "High", this is relative. So... it's neither true nor false to say such shoes have a low heel...

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I always had much more pairs than my ex-girlfriend.

My ex-girlfriend sometimes asked me to wear heels so she could wear higher heels herself because I am only 4cm taller than her and she didn't like to be taller than me.