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Shyheels

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  1. No doubt about it, walking in stilettos is great for your calves. I’m sure if more guys knew just how foot a workout they could get from an hour in stilettos there would be a rack of them at the gym
  2. That’s the height of heel you could use on the towpaths and while boating - it would be nice to find a pair like that
  3. I’ve not owned a car in nearly 30 years. I don’t miss it. Boots, bicycles, buses and trains have been my mode of transport all that time, and now I live on a boat.
  4. I wear my heels on the boat, or if I am moored at a boatyard, on the diesel landing, or in town where the towpath is paved (although in some cases they are cobbled) For the most part when walking along the towpaths I wear low heeled knee boots. I’m virtually never not wearing knee boots of some description
  5. That’s very impressive! Two and a half miles in stilettos is a serious distance, both for your calf muscles and for the heel tips.
  6. Looks fine to me! Nice boots too!
  7. Yes but I was thinking of the higher quality brands - real (nice) leather and quality construction. I have several pair of Jean Gaborit boots and I suppose im spoiled
  8. I really do wish women’s boots came in larger sizes - surely they are missing a trick. I understand why they might not think there was much of a market among men, but with so many taller women these days there must be quite a few who wear UK9, 10 and 11.
  9. Nice! But alas I’ll bet they don’t come bigger than a UK8 …
  10. Each to their own, but I'll bet when you do travel in shorts you don't look like you just came off the beach
  11. No, they are talking about bare feet - no shoes, unshod, dirty calloused feet. They are not concerning themselves with sandals. The fact that people need to be told to put something on their feet when they are going to fly is dispiriting. I don’t wear shorts out and about anyway, but I cannot ever imagine flying in shorts. I don’t think smart casual is too much to expect
  12. If they had almond shaped toes I’d be on board
  13. I’ve been living on my boat for over a year and in that time I have seen only one boater in heels and that was only just the other day - a woman in black leather knee boots with chunky 2.5” heels. Not high heels, to be sure, but then high heels really would be dangerous if you’re mooring and operating locks. In her case she was piloting the boat when I saw her while her partner was footing the mooring - although I don’t think that division had anything to do with her wearing heels. More like it was just his turn. i wear black leather knee boots when I'm moving the boat, but low heels. My lowest are about 3.5” which is just that bit too high for doing the locks. Had I boots with the heels she had I would probably wear them
  14. I am no fan of AI either. Or the gaslighting hucksters who relentlessly promote it. As a photographer and writer I am deeply distrustful of it. I have done everything I can - or that I am aware if - to keep my work out if the clutches of these people and their robotic technologies but I don’t trust them not to steal it anyway. As for the technologies on cars etc so much is done simply because they can - not because there is a need. It’s all about the ego of the people who create these things, then telling us we need them and through the force if their market clout forcing us to buy by depriving us of alternatives. its becoming a very ugly world
  15. Narrowboats are different beasts! I've mainly a 12v system, but a 240v washing machine and 240v plugs which I use only for charging the laptop. Ive a 3000w inverter for those.
  16. I’ve a Vetus 42hp diesel engine with two 95 amp alternators, one for the starter and the other to charge the domestic battery, which is a Victron lithium set up. Also 600w of solar. Lithium can easily overwork an alternator which is why there is a separate BMS to control the charge. The original domestic alternator may have been faulty or the BMS may have failed but it burned out. The original electrician who installed it turns out to be the Basil Fawlty of electricians (a character on an old British comedy). the professional I called in has replaced the alternator and the relay - which also burned out.
  17. You’re not kidding about power generation. I’ve been sidelined because of a power issue - actually the big problem was the idiot electrician from the boatbuilder who misdiagnosed a simply matter and turned it into a mess. He was even more idiotic because it was all under warranty so he didn’t make a penny out of the mess. I eventually gave up and got a competent marine engineer and in an hour he figured out the problem - when even a non technical person like me had already guessed: a burned out domestic alternator. And now it’s fixed. The idiot still swears it’s much more complicated and that he was right all along …
  18. Yes it wasn’t meant to be an academic or scientific study just a woman writers take in heels. It sprang from an essay in The Atlantic, I think
  19. Cowboy boots have heels, but those have their own particular following. But they do have heels. Although I like chunky heeled boots, I’m not a fan but very much prefer the more feminine styles
  20. Yes that would not be at all attractive. On the other hand there is a very nice bohemian community of water dwellers on the canals, especially amongst us who are continuous cruisers with no permanent mooring.
  21. My very first day in heels - four inch stiletto knee boots - I thoughtlessly bent over to pick up a flyer somebody had slipped though the mail slot in the front door. I completely forgot to take into account the fact that I was in lofty stilettos and bent over as I usually would and nearly face-planted! Lesson learned!
  22. Interesting. I think it also depends on the design and construction of the shoe or boot. I have a pair of very lovely black suede OTK boots by Jean Gaborit with a slender heel ⅜ inch wide at the base. It is very stable. It is easy to forget that you are walking in a slender heel while wearing them. Of course these are boots not shoes or sandals and therefore offer more ankle support. They are well designed and the nubuck suede is quite thick and luxurious, and that in turn adds to the level of support given to your ankles and lower leg.
  23. Yes! It was WWII metallurgical advances that created slender steel rods of sufficient strength to make stilettos a viable proposition. The idea of stilettos had been around since the 20s but were impractical - the heels couldn’t be made strong enough. Roger Vivier introduced what we know as the stiletto in 1953 and they caught on quickly. Ive no doubt that is the peacocks at the Sun Kings court could fave worn stilettos, they would have!
  24. Well, the right place, wherever it is, will not be a place where one would wear the suits with which they have been paired in the catwalk
  25. If you look at King Charles II’s coronation portrait he’s wearing real heels - they look to be about four inches. And at 6’1” he didn’t need the extra height. And the earlier Persian cavalrymen, while they were not wearing towering heels - about 2 to 2.5” - they looked like what we would say today were very feminine ankle boots. And bear in mind that when heels were in vogue for men, men were also wearing silk stockings, lace and bright colours, They all went together. I think it was real enough by our standards
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