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Mids or fulls, either way. The good thing about the mid-zips is that you don't have to worry about the zipper falling down - the boot stays on. The only pair of rear-zips I've worn went to the bottom of the heel and pressed against my heel - not very comfortable.

I'm not sure if there's any answer that will satisfy everyone. Perhaps eveyone ought to have their own answer.

I'm mainly an admirer, but since mimmickery is the best form of flattery...

Johnnie, I agree. If my wife wants to wear boots, cut-off jeans, and a tank top to go to the market, who am I to judge? Similarly, if it's me wanting to wear it? Same thing. Who cares if I mix in a pair of heels? Am I sending mixed messages? How about if I go the next step with something else like polish or make-up? Suppose my wife wears heels with the cut-offs, or long nails with boots? What sort of messages is she sending?

I've observed an undercurrent of pseudo-taboo comments against what we called the gender-(bad word) in the 1990s. These days I hardly think it matters, and it's been a long time since I've seen the term.

I don't understand this compulsion to "complete the look." What look? I've not a Tx-er anything. I'm not trying to pass. I'm a guy who likes wearing heels. If I'm wearing strappy sandals and jeans, there, that's my look. It's complete.

If it's not to your liking, don't look!

I want one of everything from that place!

YOW

I just spent an hour looking at the shoes!

Nail Goddess:queen:

They were quite eye-catching. Reminds me of Brazilian Orchard.

After all, heeled or not, you only have one pair of feet to take you through life. So IMO it pays to take care of them.

Just like the rest of our bodies. Not much use to us when we retire if our bodies are well done by then.

Do you wear these shoes for more than 8 hours a day? Also, Mens feet have more fat on the soles of the feet than women do. There are 3 other factors that people don't take into concideration.

#1 wieght. The heavier a person is the more pressure there is on the feet.

#2 age. With age we ALL lose fat and elastisity in the skin.

#3 Genes. That is the biggest factor of all. It determins all asspects of our anatomy.

I have seen all kinds of feet in 22 years of pedicures. I have seen better feet on men as a rule. I have also seen women in there late 80's that have better feet than some 20 year olds.

It's all in the GENES.

Nail Goddess:queen:

Only on weekends. At work I wear either men's dress shoes or boots.

1. I'm pretty hefty.

2. Early middle aged.

3. I don't know much about my genes, except that I have the usual aches and pains most people do, including under the balls of my feet when I try wearing more than a moderate heel. Probably because of #1!

I wouldn't, as Sculptra is made to treat lipoatrophy, the loss of fat in the face, not other padding tissues in the balls of the feet. It's not been studied for use in a higher pressure area like the ball of the foot. Since it stimulates the synthesis of collagen in the skin, and not fat (or the connective tissue which cushions the ball of the foot), such use might very well render one rather lame, either temporarily or permanently. If a plastic surgeon is recommending this, strongly recommend you seek a podiatrist with solid credentials, instead.

Where, regardless of where his roots are, I hope he doesn't run over them with his cah...

It's only mostly dead. Lives on in various reflections: http://www.aboutus.org/Shoes.com.br

You might give the number a jingle or e-mail if you want more info.

Well, if the poll were still open, it would have been appreciate the owner or something else, depending upon who the owner is (clean minds, folks - I was talking about simply wearing them).

To make a long story short... She thinks I'm gay or bi (even though I mentioned I'm perfectly straight)..."

You're not, so what's the problem?

"...she also thinks I should seek help!"

She needs a mirror.

"Sorry, It's not like I'm a pedafile or anything else that will harm others."

I wear heels and I'm neither gay nor a pedifile. I don't even do porn. What moron (not you - just other narrow-minded people) equates clothing with such horrid subjects?

"She had proclaimed she was very open minded... It seems, in my opinion, she is very wrong."

If seems, in my opinion, that your opinion is on target - she is very wrong.

"Anyway, there was no winning this one. She knew what I am like, but just because of one thing, my kink, she will not even talk to me anymore."

Then she's definately not for you. I wouldn't call it a "kink," eithers, as that brings in a whole nother bag of worms for doing something as simple as wearing a pair of shoes.

"I can't win. I think I'll go back to my own little reality when I used to never even admit any of this and everyone was happy.

What are you talking about? If you "lost" someone who would narrow-mindedly cut you down, you haven't lost anything. You've clarified a hopeless situation, early, before getting further involved, emotionally or otherwise.

Three cheers for you, good riddance to her, chear up, mate, for there are plenty of women out there who really are open-minded. Might only be one in three, but it's just a matter of time.

Does anybody know what is under the rubber matting of the treadmill?

I would have thought there would be rollers, but that would make it impossible to walk on in heels. In the video it just looks flat, but there must be something preventing friction??

The rubber mat is backed with a long-wear friction-reducing cloth that slides along a smooth steel plate on which you walk.

If you want to wear out the backing in a hurry, just walk on it with stillettos, which cause something like 150 times the psi. But that's not all. When you double the loading (psi), the wear factor goes up by around 3 to 5 times, so you're looking at a 10,000 mile treadmill belt being reduced to a 170 mile treadmill belt. Add to that the impact of a mercilously hard stiletto compared to a soft running shoe heel, and you might be lucky to 20 miles before major damage is done to the belt.

Some cheaper belts might be damaged nearly every step.

Not smart at all.

Anything over 3.5 inches feels high. Anything less feels medium. So I went with 3.5 inches.

I'll second the brilliant comment. Well done, great pics, and it's off and running. The only thing is that I'm getting it in German. Is there a way to default Myspace to English, or am I stuck because of where I live?

Sure - why not?

I appreciate the replies. Just ordered a pair of Nine West heels online. Will update as to if they fit or not when they arrive.

Uh, have to try them on. How else are you going to find out whether they fit? Most sales people, girls and guys alike, are supportive. They're in business, after all. Sort of hard to sell shoes if they're dissing the customers.

I think a lot of it depends on what kind of heel we're wearing and how we come across. Given the same outfit (jeans and a decent shirt), I'd garner a lot more looks, and more negative ones, if I were wearing spaghetti strap stillettos and acting with feminine gestures than I would if I were wearing heeled boots and acting myself.

4. Backless shoes are MURDER on the foot. (even though I wear them myself) The way the foot moves in the shoe creates a friction point that is around the outside of the heel and can cause those nasty looking cracks and then walking on carpet exaserbates the problem.

I wear backless shoes all the time, and have yet to experience any such problems. I'm almost always wearing either one of two pairs of sandals or my high heel clogs.

Does anyone know of a source for larger sized heels that are NOT fetish oriented?

Uh, Duh, yeah, me. I wear heels because I like wearing heels. Not because it get my rocks off doing so.

Back to the question, gents: "Anyone out there with similar feet have any success with the 12 W Aerosoles and Nine West heels?"

Key point in this is the size: 12.

Thanks.

Here and there, various places in public from restuarants to bars to malls, etc. About 30 over the last decade? Sounds about right.

Uh, Chessmaster, anyone? I do checkers and backgammon on Yahoo!, too. Not much into the video stuff.

To be quite blunt, showing off your new pride-and-joys without telling your mates on the board where you got them, especially if there are more available, and especially by mail order and/or at a large chain store, strikes me as thoughtless at the very least, to downright rude. Think about it-- you have the time and energy to photograph them and yourself posing in them, upload your photos to an image hosting service, write it all up in a post here where you have to insert the links so we can see them, but then omit a source where we can get them too? Puh-lease...

Yeah, agreed. It's incredibly narcisistic to say, "Look at me! Woo!" without helping others find the shoes they're loking for.

Links to purchase whatever's shown should be first.

Okay, I'll climb down off of my soap box, now...

No, don't - you're on a roll.

I think our ideas of what's acceptable have been totally driven by media. Screw the media! If you feel good about what you're doing, and you're causing no harm to yourself, others in society, or society in general, do it.

This means that the heels are way too high for you.

Yoiu should work up to the height gradually over a period of a few hours.

Hours?

Rule of 6: Muscles take up to six days to acclimate to a new regimen. Tendons and other connective tissue take up to six weeks. Bones take up to six months.

Easy does it...

It might also be a good idea to avoid sugars and alcohol, which have been known to contribute to arthritis.

Alcohol? Oh, Heavens - I'm a lush! No known arthritis issues, though, and in my 40's I still have it out with the 20-something "kids" in ultimate frisbee each week.

Still, good advice, though, if it's ailing you.