Shyheels

Wearing my 12cm stilettos are the best calf toning exercise I’ve ever come across. My first few times wearing them my calf muscles cramped up quite painfully but now wearing those boots is a pleasant calf workout

I’ve got a very high end lithium battery set up with 600w of solar, inverter, and BMS. The guy who set it up - as I discovered later - had never set up a lithium electrical system. Aside from solar the battery should also be able to be charged off the alternator - although that needs to be set up very carefully. A lithium battery can easily kill an alternator. This guy didn’t have a clue what he was doing and the alternator eventually blew. What should have been a straightforward fix - new alternator and proper set up - turned into a complete circus.

That’s so true - I find it funny to read where people speak of 3” (or 7,5cm) heels as being “high” and 10cm as virtually unmanageable. I’m no expert but I have no trouble with 10cm stilettos and find them quite fun to wear and 8cm heels are fine for long walks, almost unnoticeable as heels.

Wow! Congratulations! Well done! Walking 100 metres to a restaurant (and back again!) in those 13cm + boots is really impressive! And no doubt will help immensely with wearing your Hot Chicks. its interesting they were more comfortable than the Hot Chicks too. They are really nice boots and as you say, great for going out on occasions where you do more sitting than walking. Yes I was really pleased with my long walks in the 8cm heels. The heels themselves were really comfortable, it was just the uneven surface - almost like cobbles - that was the tricky part

Thanks! Yes, I've been for a couple of long walks - 5kms or so (three miles) in 8cm heeled boots. It was nice and yes, I do think it does help in building a good foundation of mileage in heels and simply being used to wearing them. I a making progress with my 12 cm boots.

Indeed! I just had a long cold day at the tiller moving the boat. Now I've the fire stoked up and it is toasty warm on the boat and I'm wearing my 12cm heels and click-clicking bout the galley as I make my dinner.

This does seem to be a very hidebound generation - as you say heels used to be considered fun and exciting. Now everything g is very worthy and earnest and requires the approval of the Twitter mobs

Well done! that’s excellent news! I shifted my boat up the canal and thought I might be able to get a bit of real world practice in on a better conditioned towpath but a quick survey made me think better. I did go for a long stroll in my chunky heeled (8cm) boots which was nice. My 12cm practice is still all done indoors.

Nice story! I can well imagine block heels would work in snow. I find 8cm block heel boots very, very easy to walk in. I had a funny experience today when I was walking into the boatyard to buy some kindling. I was wearing a pair of grey suede OTK boots with 8cm heels and one of the women boaters jokingly told me she was going to be mug me one of these days for my boots. Apparently she loved boots and heels and likes the styles of mine very much.

I totally understand! It’s what I face all the time in the towpath. If I’m lucky and it’s frozen I can manage my chunky heeled boots on the frozen ruts and bumps. Otherwise it’s a slick mire. I do my challenge heels practicing indoors - at that I can get around 15 paces each way (maybe a bit more) so it’s not a total loss.

Me too! My “10cm” boots are scaled up for my size but are the equivalent of 10cm in standard size and are very easy to wear all day. My 12cm boots - my challenge heels - are also scaled up for size and are the equivalent of 12cm in the standard size 38

Indeed, I had the electrical system on my boat installed by a guy who turned out to be utterly incompetent, although he was working for a guy with a long and very good reputation in the boat building world. Because of the builders reputation, I never saw this screwball for what he was until it was too late and it ended up being a complete mess.

Yes, I’m looking forward to it! Yes, you’d be surprised and probably amused by our “German” Christmas markets. There was a story about them in the Guardian a few days ago. Apparently the one in Birmingham is the closest to a genuine German Christmas market. The descriptions of yours sounded wonderful - and a lovely evening to go around in stiletto boots.

Yes. They imitate German Christmas markets here - badly! I would have liked to have worn my stilettos to the town fete but the walk along the towpath is just too rough. I am thinking of packing my 12cm boots in a knapsack and walking into town, and changing there. Or maybe taking the bus and the train and trying my stilettos at the imitation Christmas market in Leeds

Your Christmas markets in Germany sound lovely - and from all I’ve heard they really are, too. We have imitations of them here in Britain but they are not very nice - expensive, very fake and shoddy. I'm impressed with your going out to a market in 11cm boots for three hours. That’s great. We did have the town Christmas tree lighting event here where I am moored, and with the towpath frozen - instead of muddy - I wore some nice suede OTK boots with 8cm heels. It was about a 5km walk there and back plus standing around - nothing I fancied attempting in stilettos. It was a nice evening. Friendly little town. I think I was probably the only one in heels

Same here. I wear knee boots and invariably have to remove them.

Yes. Make sure they fit well and are well made.

If you’ve never work heels I’d try chunky 3 to 3.5” to start, than then maybe four inch (10cm) stilettos. Take your time. There’s no rush

If you’ve never worn heels before you’re going to need to buy at least one other pair and probably two - a lower heights to get you familiar with the feel of wearing heels. And even then it will take time, patience and perseverance. Five inch heels - or 12cm - is a challenging height even for experienced high heel wearers with years of experience. There is no easy way

Very nice looking! I can imagine they would have been loud. And definitely nothing to wear in the snow!

Indeed! Nice to hear heels are still being worn somewhere. Not so much in rural Lancashire although I was surprised the other day when I walked into town to see a woman walking her dog and wearing some very nice black leather knee boots with 3.5” chunky heels. Definitely the highest heels I’ve seen worn in town in the year or so I’ve been up this way

Indeed - we’ll need to be otherwise @higherheels will be leaving us in the dust in her 13cm Hot Chicks! 😊

Congratulations on your 60 mile month! And nice to see that you wear boots! 😊 Ive been stressed and under the gun trying to finish a feature that has turned into a nightmare by a new young and less than gifted editor with adolescent tabloid instincts and who simply doesn’t grasp the story. I’ve retreated to the safe stable height of my 10cm stiletto boots as I write

I’ve been a writer and photographer for some fairly well known magazines - the guy they send to the really weird and offbeat places, not the guy they have covering business or politics!

Yes the Hot Chicks are very chic! I would love to try a pair out of curiosity’s sake, but they don’t come in my size and even if they did it’s too expensive for idle curiosity! I'm glad to hear that even you give thought to a day in 12cm heels - i feel a bit better about my own struggles with them! I’ve a pair of very nice suede Jean Gaborit OTK boots with 9cm slender - not quite stiletto - heels that would be great for Christmas markets. Warm and with slightly thicker 9cm heels perfect for a long day. I need to find some Christmas markets to wear them too!