Shyheels

As a freelance who works from home I can dress as I please - and could if I wanted to sit around all day in my pyjamas, as a lot if people did during the pandemic. I always try to make an effort if for no other reason than to remind myself I am at work, and so create an at work vibe. I have found that wearing heels is really helpful in this regard. It’s like the foundation. You feel you need to live up to your footwear - at least in a smart casual sense. I have my faucet dress code as it were - nothing flashy at all, just nice heels, jeans, shirt or jumper.

I am convinced that I am probably the only narrowboat dweller who even owns a pair of heels - no big surprise I suppose given how life is lived along the canals, the easy bohemian style of most boaters, and how little space there is aboard a narrowboat for anything non essential. My boot collection takes up an inordinate amount of space. I wear heels all the time indoors but walking along towpaths is an impossibility and wearing heels around locks would be dangerous in the extreme. I am known though for always wearing nice knee boots - low heels - everywhere so that’s something. I’m the only one though

I bought a pair many years ago to wear around the garden. Easy to slip on and slip off, can be hosed down if they get muddy and as garden wear they’re great. I’d never wear them out in public though. I should add that mine are nothing fancy, just the straight standard Croc

Yes that’s very non committal. Could mean anything - or nothing.

I totally agree. I was a platinum frequent flyer for many years with the One World alliance but I now absolutely avoid flying - I loathe it.

If you really want to explore the colour, I suggest a book called Mauve - which is a fascinating history of colour, dyes, pigments and the invention of the colour mauve which took the late Victorian world by storm

I am definitely not skilled enough in 12cm heels to consider walking out and about. There is a big difference between 10cm and 12cm. as I say, I do love the elegance of 12cm heels, especially in boots.

Very nice boots. I’m always in boots - usually knee boots either low or medium heels (up to 3.5”) sounds like you had a lovely weekend with your wife. I’ve not been to Boston in many years - about 30 I think - but I used to like the place way back when

Did you show your friend the pic? I like your colour sense. I’m a fan of pink, mauve and violet myself

That’s a nice height range. Like you I am more interested in overall style than a numbers game. I tend to wear chunky heeled boots in the 3 to 3.5” range but I have three pair of stilettos - two 10cm and one 12cm - whose styling I like very much. I love the lines on the 12cm one. I think that is optimum stiletto - any higher and to my eyes they start looking hunched up, too much about the heel and losing touch with elegance.

Mauve is a great colour. I don’t have any boots in that colour but I’ve plenty in my wardrobe

Sounds like you’re getting some very positive feedback. I did have one question - and it may just be a matter of a typo. You wrote that while st Steve Madden the manager said HE could manage only three hours in heels like yours. Is that correct? If so that’s kind of intriguing

There were quite a few in York too for Ghost Week

Only a couple of pair of OTK boots surprisingly. Almost all knee boots, with 2-4” block heels. I saw a few pair of slender heels (not stiletto, but more like standard high heels) , also in knee boots. It was quite nice to see. It was half term week, and “Ghost week” in York so the town was quite full of tourists so it was not purely locals wearing heels. Judging by what I saw, I’d say heels - at least in winter boots - are far from dead

Looks nice. Love the colour! It’s what I would call mauve

I’d call us a kind of mauve - one if my favourite colours. Nice find!

Just spent the weekend in York - no shortage of heels at all! Plenty of high-heeled knee boots, blocky heels rather than stilettos. On the cobbled and irregularly paved mediaeval streets stilettos would be a singularly bad idea. But plenty of heels, and almost all of them on knee boots.

On the contrary I enjoyed the whole of your posts. Your posts always provide interesting reading and are well thought out. The site needs more posts like yours! I like the boots. I wear skinny jeans myself with boots over them. Long trousers over the boots also look good - I would go with whatever looks best in your eyes on the day and make “visibility “ only a secondary consideration

I agree. Fashion and style is not something that can be measured with a tape.

I used to have a pair. I wore them a lot in the 80s, not out and about, but because I used to do a hell of a lot of stretching as part of my running and found them useful for keeping the muscles warm and supple.

Not heels, but I did see something yesterday I’d not seen in decades - a young girl wearing leg warmers. A throwback to the 80s. in a long day travelling by train, through various cities, I saw very few heels most of them being at the end of the trip, in an arty, boho part of town where quite a few middle aged women wore chunky heeled boots.

Sounds like you’re leading quite a full life!!!

Yes congratulations to your son!!!

He’s certainly no introvert!

That’s often the way - things take longer and heal slower. Taking it easy will pay benefits in the long run