Shyheels

I’ve got two forms of heat - a coal stove which is my main form of heating during the winter, and a central heating system, diesel fuelled, with hot water radiators. I don’t want to start burning coal just yet and so have been using the radiators to take the morning chill off. It’s pretty chilly today so I’m tempted to light the fire. Thank goodness for tall warm boots!

I’ve not tried it yes but I would be interested in doing so

My heater is not working at the moment (I suspect and air lock in the pipes somewhere), and I’m reluctant to start burning coal again so I am rugged up in heavy fleeces and by heavy suede OTK boots with 8cm heels. I’ve somebody coming around this evening to check out the system

I'm so glad to hear that.

I’ll defer to an expert who actually wears Louboutin Hot Chicks that the added height of a 13cm heel is challenging enough without adding poor quality fit, manufacture and materials into the mix.

I know people here have certainly influenced me - I doubt if I'd be diligently practicing in my 12cm heels were it not you two, and having the inspiration and virtual company has made all the difference.

I don’t think it’s a problem you’re posting here. We’re a small and pretty egalitarian group and while none of us would post in the girls forum, your certainly welcome e in this one. We’re having a nice discussion about heels and your input is welcome - aside from which the three of us are all supporting each other in our high heels challenge! It is a shame that there are such slim pickings when it comes to well made high heels - and as you say, that Louboutin has ceased to manufacture the true Hot Chicks. The difference between well made heels and nasty knock offs is vast

Nobody ever judges those contests. They just peter out without a winner

I’m sure there are plenty of knock offs but this one misses the boat a little because the original Hot Chicks had 13cm heels - that extra centimetre makes a world of difference as @higherheels can tell you! And I somehow suspect that wearing a cheap knock off of Hot Chicks with a 13cm heel (if such a thing is available) would be a great way to end up in A&E with a twisted ankle and a dumb backstory

Interesting! I’m guessing the comment was more observational and curious. If it was meant to be derisive, her reply - oh yes, that’s my friend - would have put him back in his box

Thank you! I would love to think such a thing might happen

There was a nasty story a while ago about a woman who wore stilettos while watching boats come up the Foxton lock flight. She was walking on the grassy bank above one of the lock chambers when her stiletto heels sank in the soft earth, sending her toppling backwards into the feed pond that provided water for the lock. A boat was coming up the lock and she was sucked into the sluice as it filled the chamber. She somehow went through the sluice along with a few thousand gallons of water, and emerged in the narrow lock chamber bobbing around with an 18 tonne narrowboat. How she didn’t get drowned, crushed or chopped up by the prop is anyone’s guess. But she emerged unscathed. I’ll bet she doesn’t wear heels around the locks again though!

I have seen her on Instagram. It is very impressive and she does it extremely gracefully

I’m sure the conversation helped, but she did notice you walking in those Hot Chicks and was interested enough to comment. You had to be doing something right. a walk of 170 metres in Hot Chicks is very impressive - about 170 metres further than I could go. It’s a distance I’d like to try in my 12cm boots though - although I doubt anybody watching me would be inspired to dig out their heels and start wearing them!

I’ve driven a Fiat Punto, not in heels, and I didn’t feel comfortable with the pedals either

What a cool story! She obviously knows her heels if she had a pair of Louboutin Pigalles in her wardrobe and it's nice to think you got her interested in bringing them back out again. It is also quite a compliment to your abilities in the Hot Chicks. The fact that you could do a few turns around the block in them is a wonderful feat in itself, but to do so looking so graceful that an onlooker is inspired to want get out her Louboutins and think about wearing them again is the best kind of compliment you could have. Not many people can walk so fluidly in Hot Chicks that other people want to take up wearing heels as a result.

Same. But in reading your comment the idea suddenly came to me that if I got my bike out of storage, I could put on my heels and pedal up the towpath to a place where I could go for a stroll and get in some real world practice. Not cycling in heels for thrills, but for a practical reason.

That’s true, there is little in the way of genuinely high heels unless you are paying Louboutin prices. I quite like mid heel boots but even there, I’m seeing where mid heel is now reckoned to be about two inches, or 5cm, and “high” heels are 7cm. i would want 8cm at least for my mid heel boots but they are rare and tend to be pretty ugly when I do see some.

The only ones I’m aware of are called waders. Unless one is fly fishing I simply don’t see the point in such things.

I started a separate new thread on driving in heels. There seems to be demand for it

I’ve not bought any in ages although I have seen some I’ve fancied. Living in a boat is an excellent way to curb one’s acquisitional instincts

Add to the list of silly things people do …

I’ve never done it, never intend to do it and don’t even own a car but it seems like driving in heels is a topic of interest so I decided I’d start a thread. i wouldn’t mind trying cycling in heels though. I’ve seen it done quite stylishly by women in London and on the Continent.

How many police reports include an inventory of everything g the driver was wearing? Unless it was something spectacular, like you were driving home in your Folies Bergère costume, nobody is likely to notice

Hmmmm. I still think the odds of anyone being taken to court for driving barefoot or in heels is vanishingly small. There would have to be some truly spectacular other factors and even then that would just be an extra charge thrown in for good measure.