benno

The other day I was wearing my Manolo Blahnik for Jimmy Choo for Pleaser 14 inch stiletto wedge platform zip up thigh length sandal boots, red lipstick, foot long blood red nails and a micro mini leather dress and my cigarette holder exploded destroying a small petrol station. Don't you just hate it when that happens? Seriously though. There is a fetish section for this sort of crap.

There have been endless amounts of incredible sunsets in the world viewed by countless billions of people, but I still get a lovely warm feeling whenever I see a new one. It's the same with shoes.

I have a girlfriend that I'm deeply in love with so it would be wrong to do anything other than ask where we can get a pair of your shoes from. Also depending on your overall dress and attitude you might get an invite to a fancy dress party.

Surely this is due to men's clothes being on the whole quite boring. It only takes a little wedge to cause a stir. It's quite sad really, but things are changing and it's only a matter of time before it all adds up to a big metaphor that breaks the donkey's back.

If they were truly great I'd say I liked them and ask where they were from. Then I'd tell my girlfriend and maybe we would buy some.

As I've said before. I find transvestism sexist. Not the I hate women/men kind of sexist, more 'the way the world is' kind of sexism. In particular the kinds of trannys that annoy me most are... Drag queens dong the 'I'm such a slut and I love cock' parody of a loose woman. And drag kings doing the 'I'm a lumberjack and I'm gonna chop down trees with my massive penis' act. What I find most amusing is that drag queens/kings are usually gay and often will complain about being stereotyped because they are gay. As I said initially it's not always the fault of the person, but more indicative of the ridculous society we choose to tolerate. More often than not it's a hideous parody of something the person wishes to be or secretly hates. I would say the remedies are: A. Have a sex change B. Wear whatever you like as your own sex. Don't pretend to be anything else. It's deceitful. So wear what you want but please don't pretend to be something you are not. I am simply a man in good clothes, and nothing else. Cheers, Ben

I didn't vote because I like seeing just the shoes as high resolution images from as many different angles as possible. Websites like Office are great as they let you rotate the shoe with your mouse.

Cheers,

Ben

Benno,

I thought you "felt bad for women who feel the need to wear heels everyday?" LOL

Well, my feet still hurt from last night.

I think I mean it more along the lines of feeling bad for women that feel they must wear really high heels everywhere for every occasion. For example when I was a kid my uncle brought his then girlfriend to a Guy Fawkes event some hippy friends of my parents were holding in a local forest. Uncle arrived in his little sports car with his girlfriend. She was wearing a fake fur coat and 5" stiletto thigh high burgundy boots. All her clothes got wrecked and she complained as if it was anyone's faults but hers. She surely must have known that forests in November = mud and dirt. I just remember thinking how selfish and stupid she was.

My girlfriend wear shoes with some sort of heels almost everyday but they are usually no higher than 2 or 3 inches. She wears them because A. she likes them and B. because they look good with the outfit she's wearing. If we go for a country walk or to the beach then she wears trainers, flip flops or wellies.

Probably means Red mesh.

Benno,

I think you were just joking, but I find that remark offensive and out of line. Nazis ruthlessly imposed their twisted sense of what society should be on their victims. By contrast, while I find flip-flops repulsive, I don't restrict any persons from wearing them if they want to. I don't impose my sense of fashion on anyone else. I do offer my opinion, and that person can take it or leave it. So I think "shoe Nazi" is much too extreme.

GWL

It's just a turn of phrase. I used to call my DJ friend a 'Music Nazi'. I am Jewish (lots of members of my family were killed during the war) and my best friend is a 'proper' blonde German. I'd say you need to get over it.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Sex should be dirty and decadent or you're not doing it well. Shoes can be cheap looking, badly thought out and wrong which normally isn't such a good thing. Trashy, expensive well made shoes are a great thing. Just look at all the amazing creations coming from big high end labels. Louboutin trades on being trashy but expensive. He always says he ows his fortune to being influenced by trashy Parisian women from the more burlesque side of life. It's always possible to find some genuinely cheap shoes that look and feel great but the search is a long, hard road. I'm sure shops like Frederick's have giant bargain bins of plastic heels that are being sold off at $10 just to get them out of the way. See the attached for an example of trashy and classy versus cheap and nasty. I'd rather not eat for a month and have some real Tributes than wear the grey fluffy knockoffs. Cheers, Ben

I just bought a new pair of shoes on ebay, thought I'd post one of the pics from the site. They're Tommy Hilfiger, leather with a 3 1/2 inch heel and pointed toe. I loved the as soon as I saw them, so i used the buy it now, it was only $3 more than the starting bid, and I would've hated myself if I lost them over 3 bucks. Anyway, here's the pic, and I should have them in about 2 weeks.

I'd love them in patent black and would change the buckle for something almost costume jewellery like in jet black or maybe fluoro coloured. They would look great with slightly baggy but slim lower leg trousers and a boot buckle matching cumerbund style, back laced steel boned corset over a white shirt or womens blouse, with a nice edwardian style jacket and a killer slick of liquid eyeliner.

Do the boots have zips?

I have a thing about zips on boots and clothes that can be fastened via a obvious fastening that is made redundant via addition of a zip. I feel the same about bags that have a buckle and then employ a popper or magnet to close. I know it's for the sake of speed, but I have always thought that life shouldn't be a race.

Cheers,

Ben

I discussed this sort of thing with my girlfriend last night and she thought it sounded like quite a laugh. We would have to have strict rules as to types of heels allowed though. And we can set fire to any shoes that fail to comply! At least it will make a cool photo.

They have a nice, round stiletto heel?

But it doesn't really go with the rest of the shoe. A more block or cone heel would probably balance thing out more

I love Sainsbury's. It keeps the Chavs out of Waitrose.

Brighton didn't get called 'London by the sea' for nothing. I have friends from London who come to Brighton to do their shopping! It's a wonderful place to have lived and grown up in. Cheers, Ben

Benno

This story shows even experienced heel wears have problem walking all day in heels! I wonder how occasional wearers got on? Although I have never been I get the impression that heels are almost 'de-rigour' at Royal Ascot.

What heels did your GF wear the next day and would she wear the cone heels or a simialr height next year to Ascot?

Cheers Fred

I think like most girls she would 'forget' the pain and do it all again.

Mary Poppins chic is all the rage at the moment. Lace up brogues with heels are everywhere. They were in all the top fashion magazines around a year and a half ago and are now the shoe of the high street. p.s. It's no problem sharing shoes. We have hundreds of the little blighters littering our flat. Shoes everywhere. On shelves, on the floor, in the office, in the bedroom, in the loft (which is the bedroom) and in my old loft where old flatmates still live! We love shoes!

Can anyone explain what's so good about the mules? To me they look like they were designed by a forest dwelling, clog loving pixie (with a Playboy bunny fetish) on mushrooms. I'd say they would cost around $10 from a sex shop. Not £220 from a custom shoe company. The wedges have a classic timeless feel to them. The pixie designed ones look thrown together with little regard to the overall styling of the shoe. Its as if the designer just had a tick list of things to fit into one shoe. To me the whole is worth less than the sum of it's parts.

I took some pictures with my new corset on. It was fun to walk in my high heels with a tight corset.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t248/bobbiejane_photo/P1010039a.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t248/bobbiejane_photo/P1010045.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t248/bobbiejane_photo/P1010044.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t248/bobbiejane_photo/P1010050.jpg

Love the pattern on the material...

You need to get a corset that you can lace so the laces are an even width apart all the way down the back otherwise you will put uneven strain on the garment and it will quickly become weakened and break.

The BEST resource for all things corset related is staylace.com. They have a great medical FAQ written by a corset wearing doctor.

It's a wonderful website.

From personal experience don't expect too much too quickly. A 4" reduction feels surprisingly tight. I can get my waist to just over 24" (from a natural waist of 30") measured over the corset, but not for long as it is almost unbearable and feels like it's doing harm.

Best wishes,

Benno

Scot. If you're gonna wear some heels you're gonna get looked at. It's harder as a man so you must make sure the shoes stand up to harsh scrutiny. I'm a man and I'm on high heel place so I am really cool with men in heels. You are an ambassador for a wonderful, new emerging trend. So give them something great to look at and you know you might just get away with it!

I found all the attached in 5 mins. As you have the wonderful resource of zappos.com over there in the US, I would say you have no excuse.

Best wishes,

Ben

I wish you hadn't posted the wedges. I'm currently scanning my flat for things to ebay to get the money to buy them!!! Thanks alot, Ben

The biggest cities are Philly and Pittsburgh. both of which are on either side of the site and im pretty much dead center in the south.

its mostly conservative people around here. the only differences are in those two cities.

That's the problem then. In London and where I live in Brighton (60 miles south of London on the coast) there are thousands of women wearing ridiculously high heels everywhere you care to look. They wear them to work, to the supermarket, on nights out and even to the beach on the pebbles. There are even quite a few men that regularly wear heels.

I'll post you some petrol and matches. Not good Scot.