Shyheels

The French have plenty of style whether they are wearing heels or not! Id never heard of Noe of Antwerp. That looks like a very nice pair of boots! I love block heeled boots especially with rounded/almond toes.

Sounds like an interesting person! I like her sense of style

You and me both!

Nice!!!

Glad all is well at your end! Very quiet too at mine. Just moving along the canal

Still very few along the towpath, although I’m in a town now - about 15,000 population - so perhaps …

A perceived small market

True - an actual measured 4” heel in a size 5 would be considerably steeper than an actual measured 4” heel is a size 12, but then you’d be buying and talking about completely different style of shoes, with differed billed heel heights. The variations in heel heights according to size can be surprising. I was surprised to see that according to the chart on the Italian Heels website my 120mm stilettos (official billed height) were actually 147mm in my size. That’s a full inch variation. But it keeps the styling and proportions consistent with the 120mm in size 38 on which the design is based

Shoe size doesn’t make any difference in terms of the angle of your foot - at least not with the better makes of shoes and boots. When they market a model of shoe as having, say, 4” heels, that will be the base line height for a base line size, say, a size 6. As the sizes go up or down the physical height of the heel will vary so that the lines and proportions are identical right across the range of heights. A size 7 would have a 4.2” heel and a size 8 maybe 4.4” but they would still be sold as 4” heels as that is the standard for that particular line. A size 5 might have a 3.8” heel but would be sold as a 4” heel. It’s all about consistency and keeping the same proportions. Italian heels even has a chart on their website giving the exact heel heights for 100mm and 120mm heels each shoe size. I have a pair of their 120mm stiletto boots. In my size the heels are actually 147mm to keep the correct proportions. I think in their case the heel heights are based in a size 38 as standard. Other makers do the same. So having a bigger size does not change anything. Neither does having a smaller size. They keep all the proportions and angles the same

For me 3” to 3.5” is very “unnoticeable”, especially in chunky heeled boots

I don’t usually have that problem. I’m snappy on the comeback - it seems to be a family trait - but it’s not always a great thing.

My intuitive comeback line to a crack like “Only in America” would be -“Isn’t it wonderful.”

I guess, to be blunt, my thinking is: who cares? This guy, whoever he is, has his opinions and the poor manners to make what sounds like gratuitous and disparaging remarks. He's not worth your time.

I too find that when wearing my chunky heeled boots I can completely forget I am in heels. Not so much with stilettos since I do not wear them so much, but with 3-4” block heeled boots I wear them without thinking. I'm nearly always in knee boots of some sort - either heeled or not heeled - and it has become my regular look in the eyes of my fellow boaters. The other day I was walking along the road, off to town to buy supplies, and unusually for me was wearing my hiking boots. One if my boating neighbours, who owns a van, stopped to give me a lift and said he almost didn’t recognise me without my tall boots.

Yup. I’m just shy of 67. The optometrist mentioned that I was a rarity. I could still get by without them - and generally do. But for small print in printed books (not Kindle) they do make reading easier. If I didn’t have to do a lot of reading for my work I would not need them at all. It feels weird to wear them and I seldom do i too though glaucoma was an eye pressure disease. I know it can be serious. Glad yours sounds straightforward