Shyheels

And I guess they are not unknown on the streets of Birmingham (UK) either

Here's the story of a chap - a purse-snatcher - who no doubt sincerely wishes he had not sighted this particular pair of killer heels or at least not the young lady who was wearing them. Aside from her being a beauty queen - on her way to a contest, no less - she was also a martial arts expert. So much for vulnerability in four-inch heels...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7189087/Beauty-queen-in-high-heels-fights-off-mugger-with-her-martial-arts-skills-moments-before-Miss-Universe-audition.html 

You certainly see it in London

Virginia Reel

Lindy Hop

At least he would never go home wondering if anyone noticed...

Flapper

Pinball

Windmill

Buzz

Tom Hanks

Mickey

Elephant

Democrat

Conservative

Whig

Peruke

Schleswig

1 minute ago, Thighbootguy said:

I think most of the guys claiming to wear 5" and +5" heels make that claim based on a ruler's measurement of their heels, not the manufactures claim.

All the more impressive then that women, with their typically much smaller feet, can wear heels of that height with such aplomb.

No doubt who they were for, then

And did you?

New Jersey

Hmmm. I'd say probably 100% of shoe/boot designers would look at heels from an engineering/proportionality perspective. My query arose from my natural journalistic curiosity and scepticism, which was piqued last week by the story about the temp and her heels and the inevitable news stories about guys wearing heels experimentally for a day and hating it etc. Or saying they did. It occurs to me that the four-inch heels they wore - cheap, throwaway pairs unlikely to have been scaled to keep the proportionality throughout the size range - would have been far easier to wear height-wise and thus unlikely to have given them a similar experience or challenge to that of a woman wearing a size five shoe in the same stated heel height. Journalists like to look for inconsistancies like that.

I was also wondering about so many of the guys on the site wearing five-inch plus heels - if they were five inches at men's size 13 or if they were proportionally scaled-up versions of the five inch heels worn by women - a big difference with the latter being a much tougher proposition. 

Legend

The degree of difficulty, then, would be the same for you and your size 6.5 friend, and in both cases far less than for someone with size 13 feet in shoes with five inch heels who woukd have a relatively easy ride.

Barnabas