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  1. I have done something a little bit different this week. Or maybe something a little the same. It has been many years since I limited myself to blacks and browns in footwear, but I bought some purple shoes. They are not a traditional liturgical purple, and they certainly don't look purple in these pictures, but to my eye they are more purple than pink. The photos picked up on the pink tones, so maybe we'll call them magenta.

    No reaction at church, but I got more reaction than I have in a long time at the grocery store. Several young girls were obviously watching me, and several adults noticed me as well. I don't know whether it was the general brightness of my outfit, or if those shoes are actually that outrageous. In any case, I have another pair just like it coming in bright blue soon.

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  2. Reheeled 6 times, eh? Given the wear I normally get out of stiletto heels, you've probably put more miles on those than any individual pair of stilettos I own. Until very recently, I don't do any serious walking in stilettos, for that very reason. I do need to keep better track of stuff that has yielded up the ghost, though. It has been several pairs a year, consistently.

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  3. 22 hours ago, Puffer said:

    Are you referring to the potential time that your employment might last, or to the remaining time during which you expect to remain on the planet and fit for work?   If the former, then (as Bubba says) you should not find it too hard to get alternative and suitably lucrative work.

     

    It is the latter. Unless something radical happens, which is not beyond the realm of possibility, given the general gullibility of the American populace, I should have no problem keeping employment here in Iowa, as long as I can still climb a ladder.

  4. 4 hours ago, Tech said:

    Ha ha ha, this really made me chuckle... Thank you... 😁

     

    I sometimes don't understand why I am funny, even when I'm trying to be serious. Just the other day, I was talking with my immediate supervisors at work about the project our crew would be doing, and I made some remark like, "Yes, I agree, that is a very important consideration." Both of them busted up laughing. I have no idea why. Was it the delivery? Verbiage? Demeanor? No idea. But, in any case, you're welcome.

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  5. 7 hours ago, Tech said:

    Whats the difference between "Disagree" and "Disagree strongly"? Compared to say "I'n my experience, I've found that..."

    You don't have any defects; you're just different. Either way, if you tucked in a plain T-Shirt, as tight as he did, with no belt, it would look dreadful.

    The way I figure, agreement or disagreement is not like pregnancy, but rather there is a continuum. On the other end of the spectrum, I do not merely wishy-washily agree with your assertion about the belt, I agree strongly. A belt is key, both as a holder-upper device and as a line of visual demarcation.

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  6. The subject comes up more and more often lately. I get asked, "Squirrel, how long have you got left?" The answer is I don't know. I can't afford to retire early, being as my ex-wife got half my pension years ago, so the best I can do is hope I don't get hurt or sick in the next 9 years. The good news is, my house is paid off as of this month!

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  7. 4 hours ago, Tech said:

    Those jeans are very, inappropriately the wrong size. They look wrong in so many ways. Sorry, dude. It's not a good look at all. It screams "Fetish" and "Exhibitionist". Like they have been deliberately pulled up way too high.

    Tucked in t-shirts are never a good look either. Unless its a polo shirt with trousers, and a belt!

    I must disagree strongly with your assertion that tucked in t-shirts are always bad. For those of us who are proportioned with short legs and long torsos, an untucked t-shirt exacerbates this unfortunate defect.

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  8. 7 hours ago, Bubba136 said:

    After further review I noticed that back in the early days of HHPLACE’s beginning, around 2006 or before, Administrators permitted Guests to post comments expressing their opinion, comments and suggestions.  Some time after that they changed their policy to only permitting registered members to post here.  Perhaps they changed this policy due to the increase in the number of people posting comments outside of the website’s expressed purpose causing problems and excessive labor scrubbing them.  Over the time since I joined “Admins” have banned a number of people due to their activity not being in compliance with the rules and stated goals, JeffB for example.  I, for one, recognize their situation because I have received several warnings about some things I posted.  

    Perhaps there are really more people posting than we are aware of because their comments fail to meet established standards and are considered inappropriate for public consumption.  I don’t have any problem with that and appreciate our Admin’s efforts to maintain the standards and purposes established.  But I really miss JeffB. ;-)

    Yes, I miss JeffB also, but I must point out that he was not technically banned. True, much of his content in the latter days was circumscribed, but he could post something today if he wanted to. He is not the only one s0 situated. It's just that for some, confining one's interest to shoes is too limiting, so those people have left voluntarily. Luckily for me, I have zero interest in dresses and makeup and such. Therefore, I am not very tempted to violate "community" standards.

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  9. 22 hours ago, Jkrenzer said:

    The truly bad part is her not wanting to stand out. It's comformism at its worst. As men wearing heels we stand out in a big way.

    And thus has it always been, at least since I've been alive. We don't need school uniforms here in the U.S., because kids make their own anyway. Except for three.

    The father, my colleague, I'll call him "Bill" (mainly because that's his name), has actually seen me in the wild. I can't remember exactly what I was wearing, but he at least pretended not to notice, and the subject has never come up.

  10. You can add my name to the list of people who are somewhat at a loss. I do try my best to make things varied and interesting. I don't know if it's a systemic issue with the site itself, or a broader societal one. I think that perhaps the fetish people far outnumber the fashion people. I think in this day and age of social media, perhaps we are just too slow and too boring for modern attention spans. On the other hand, that doesn't explain the 100-and-some people who always seems to be lurking. Who are these people? Are they the same people, or are they a continually rolling audience? Whoever y'all are, howdy there Internet people!

  11. I had a conversation the other day with a coworker. We don't really have a lot in common outside of the trade, except for the fact that we are the two senior members of the crew. I am 56, he is 60. We also both have young children for our age. I have a 15 year old son, he has a 12 year old daughter. We have both been mistaken for grandparents at school.

    I bring this up because evidently the daughter needed new pants the other week. My colleague took her shopping. He said, "What kind of pants do you want?", thinking she was going to want some expensive designer jeans or something. She replied, "Sweatpants. That's all I need." He asked, "Don't you want something a little bit nicer than sweatpants?" "No, that's what everybody's wearing, and I don't want to stand out."

    Yup, that's what you see--sweatpants or pajama bottoms. This is what it's come to. I hope it doesn't take too many years to swing back the other way again.

  12. On 2/29/2024 at 7:28 AM, p1ng74 said:

    These fashion shows are like concept cars, they aren't supposed to be practical.  I think of it as a way for them to push and broaden the palette of what can be worn, which is something that I think we can relate to.  

    I always thought so myself, but now that I think about it, I have never paid enough attention to fashion shows to track whether little tiny elements of the outlandish part make it to the street. And taking the thought a bit further, if they do make it to the street, which street? Certainly not mine, unless it's prom night or something.

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  13. 20 hours ago, Bubba136 said:

    I totally agree with HinH.  We are indeed fortunate that mlroseplant appears amongst us both in comments and photos demonstrating that appearing in public wearing high heels and occasionally mixing Items of feminine apparel with his outfits is courageous and socially acceptable, much in the same manner as does kneehighs, casting aside any fear of being stigmatized as deviant.  Their examples demonstrate the fact that while wearing items of clothing usually associated with male or females, they are really totally normal people who’s taste happens to include selecting color, shapes and functions not usually associated with males.  

    I, for one, do not pay attention to what clothing fashion designers and models present during their shows.  Often I have great sympathy for the models who have to wear these hideous designers creations.  At times models must be humiliated and embarrassed having to appear on the runway wearing these unappealing creations.  
     
    As to this forum, it’s appeal to me (or those of us that frequently login) would totally be diminished should either or both kneehigh or mlrosplant disappear or no longer post comments.  Should that happen, given the decline in comments being posted, Hhp might as well pack it in.

    I cannot in good conscience take all of the credit that you have given me, but thanks anyway. I would have and should have given up on this place a long time ago, but for the fact that I really enjoy interacting with the few who are left. We could call ourselves The Normal Guys. I keep hoping that some more normal guys will join us. Men who put fashion before fetish.

    I never check the statistics function of the site, but you (Bubba) have pointed out a number of times that our visitor stats far exceed our member stats when it comes to those who are online at any given moment, indicating that there is a lot of latent interest out there.  .  . somewhere. I hope people continue to indulge me in getting off the subject occasionally, because it does become wearisome posting, "Today I wore such-and-such, and nothing at all interesting happened."

    I wonder how many of our "guests" are people who are loosely like us, and how many are searching for something that we don't offer here. Every once in a while, we'll get somebody new who obviously doesn't seem to understand the nature of this site, and I sometimes idly wonder if they are very disappointed when nobody cares about whatever weird thing it is.

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  14. 23 hours ago, Jkrenzer said:

    Careful buddy your approaching my style. Very elegant pumps, and I'll say it, sexy heels.

    I know, init? For my next act, I'll be wearing cargo shorts with those pumps. 😛

    So, to counteract such tendencies, I took my "new" vintage Bakers wedges out for a spin. That was quite possible two days ago. In a weird, yet very normal turn of weather events here in Iowa, the temperature has dropped more than 60 fahrentheit degrees in the last 12 hours to land at 12º, or -11º C. All of this with a 30 mph wind, as well. Lucky us.

    I didn't do a ton of walking in the Bakers, but enough to know that they are going to work out just fine. I did my weekly grocery shopping in them, which is just enough walking to sort of tell how things are probably going to go.

    With an effective heel height of just under 4 inches, they are easy to manage. The very narrow wedges, which is one of the more distinctive things about them, do not seem to hurt them in the practicality department, and in fact, their narrowness may be an advantage from my point of view. One of the things that I normally dislike about wedges is that they typically feel clumpy to walk in above a certain heel height. These do not at all. They feel and sound just like normal shoes to me.

    One thing I did notice is that I may have to experiment with footpads eventually. I noted elsewhere that I was concerned about them being size 40, which is normally just a bit big for me in sandals. I would not say that these are actually too big, but perhaps it is their very open toed criss-cross design, which fully shows four toes, that allows my feet to slip forward a little after a while, bordering on the dreaded toe overhang. We'll figure out something to correct this almost problem before it becomes a serious problem. Overall, I am pleased with the purchase.

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  15. 22 hours ago, Jkrenzer said:

    Yikes 

     

    22 hours ago, Shyheels said:

    Yes, genuinely hideous. Almost like an Identikit composite of everything revolting in terms of so called dress shoes 

    Which is too bad, because the rest of this young lady is crazily beautiful. To be fair, I cannot say that with 100% confidence, as this is somebody I've never actually met in person. I feel guilty about that to this day, but that's another story for another time.

    In other news, it is time for the church outfit of the week. Again, forgive the pictures, I was really fighting with the angle of the sun. I need to figure out something different for the next several weeks until the solar angle changes.

    I wore my Kut from the Kloth skinny pants with a regular suit jacket and purple shirt (both no-name from Vietnam), and Steve Madden Varcityy D'Orsay pumps. I've had these a while, but had never worn them out before. The left shoe had to spend a bit of time on the shoe stretcher to make it fit without puckering around the little toe area. These have been worn enough by some previous owner to almost need heel tip replacement before I even got them. They're not completely worn, but noticeably worn.

    Heels are 4 5/8" (117 mm) tall, traditionally curved toward the front, and quite slim at 1/4" or slightly more than 6 mm diameter. Despite this very skinny heel, they are stable to walk in (or is that just my trained ankles?). The only problem I had, other than the sheer height of the heel, which is, if I am being perfectly honest, right in that range that might be too high for me, is that just as I was trying to haul my bass and associated equipment through the back door of the sanctuary, I got my heel caught in a crack in the sidewalk. I was able to extricate it without causing any damage to the heel, but it was a close call.

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  16. I just run with whatever thread happens to be active at the moment. At this moment, it happens to be this one. I have little interest in continuing the original idea for this thread. I will continue to post pictures as they happen which simply represent my normal life. Some people would say that part of that life happens to be well-dressed.

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  17. I have found a picture of the ugly shoes girls/women in Vietnam are wearing now, plucked off of somebody's social media post, and heavily cropped to protect the guilty. Shown here are Mary Janes in a spectator style, which I've never seen before now. Most of the time, these shoes are plain black patent, in either this Mary Jane style, or in a regular pump/court. Note the flared heel, which is what I find so objectionable. In person, they make a person's foot look much bigger than it actually is.

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  18. Interestingly enough, although I still can't see the article on this computer (it doesn't lock me out, it just won't load), I could read the article just fine (with the appropriate amount of magnification) on my phone. Weird, huh? At any rate, I'd be embarrassed to wear heels like they described, too! Chucks? With foam wedges somehow attached to them? Yuck!

    The comments I made from a position of ignorance turned out to be accidentally correct. I am quite aware that my feet/achilles tendon are affected by regular heel wearing. I try to counteract this by regular stretching in addition to my golf ball exercise, mentioned elsewhere. Overall, I think the results are not only positive, but quite positive. I have no idea about walking efficiency, nor do I care. I do know that on the rare occasions that I wear heels as low as what they used in this study, I can sure zoom. Even in effective 9 cm heels, I am back to not doing too badly after my long trip.

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  19. The workaround link evidently doesn't work in the U.S., but like a good American, I'm going to offer up my opinion from a position of ignorance. I wouldn't want to break tradition or anything.

    I, of course, have no idea what the article says, but what I imagine it says in part is right up my alley. Much of what attracts me to high heels is the athletic challenge, and I alone in my world actually walk in high heels. I cannot say that this practice has done me any harm. In fact, I'd say it's quite the opposite.

    I seem to remember another guy who walked several km in high heels pretty much every day. I want to say he was from Oz, but my memory is fuzzy. Perhaps a former member here?

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  20. I have managed to make it through my first work week back. I almost feel normal again. I have gotten back into the walking routine, and my feet are getting to where they tolerate walking in heels again without complaint. I blew out the right heel cap on my good dress boots last Sunday, but Marty the cobbler should be able to fix that right up. Happy Friday, everyone!

  21. 17 hours ago, bluejay said:

    Nice Valentine's ensemble, Melrose. Red suits you well. I wore red  patent booties last week for Valentines. Was going to wear my red pumps yesterday, but with 8" of  new snow on the ground, that wasn't happening yesterday, going to church.

    Happy Heeling,

    bluejay

    Valentine? Who is he? We don't really do saints in the Methodist church. This is my first Sunday of Lent outfit! 😁

  22. 21 hours ago, Jkrenzer said:

    Very deep red. Look good.

    Yeah, the color was what sort of got me besides the price--it is definitely not tomato red. What you see on your screen might not be exactly the true color (the angle of the sun this time of year is giving me fits for taking photos after church, overcast days are much better for that purpose), but it's definitely more of a hunter red, with plenty of blue in it.

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