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On 6/24/2023 at 12:15 PM, mlroseplant said:

In a more casual setting, it is my observation that the platform trend has settled largely on combat type boots with a thick sole, and a low to mid-rise clunky heel. This can range from kinda cool to absolutely hideous, depending upon the extremism of the sole. I even saw like an 8 or 10 year old girl wearing combat boots with a dress the other day. They had 4 inch heels and 1 inch platform. On the other hand, on the same night, I saw another girl of similar age wearing a dress and cute little gold wedge sandals, so there is hope for the future.

One demographic that does not seem to have embraced the huge platform is Asian women my age. They either wear flat sandals or mid-heeled sandals at this time of year, same as they always have. Latinas wear heels sometimes. White women do not wear heels. Trainers are everywhere for all demographics. I am speaking of casual out and about situations, not weddings or church.

Spot on! It's an epidemic of trainers and combat boots out there. I think in the past three months I saw 1 young woman in heels. And I live in a university city with an above average young female population.

I order a LOT from them. Including heels. I have better experience and success rates with them then with Ali or even Asos.

I rather have frivolous negative reviews, I can at least recognize those, then fake positive ones or knowing that companies openly screen and adjust their reviews. Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB have become notorious for filtering out shitloads of negative movie reviews for certain movies that fit the 'right narrative'. Like the current Little Mermaid rehash. Amazon has done the same for their Rings of Power abortion. If they have the ability to 'filter' their reviews, how can I trust any of their reviews if I want to buy a product or see something?

These days I enjoy wearing leggings even more then heels. It's a great combo.

4 hours ago, mickeyunc said:

you have a style name or number?

 

i searched pleaser website and sent then a picture. and they said they dont carry that style

The Sexy 20 range I'd guess. But they have been scrapping a lot of shoes of that range.

Haven't seen or worn anything like that since I was a kid in the 70's on holidays. Which is to me what it represents. It's interesting to see that everybody can and does find their own niche in this thing.

I see more flatforms then platforms here. I would appear even the modest heel height of a platform is too much for most women.

On 3/8/2023 at 11:23 AM, Puffer said:

These have just appeared on the ASOS website.   Sizes up to UK13.   No heel height indicated but appears to be about 4".   Not something I would wear but I can see the appeal.

Not in a million years, but one man's garbage is another man's treasure, so I welcome their good fortune.

On 2/2/2023 at 12:37 PM, Jkrenzer said:

I think these are over 10 yrs old. They are butter soft and conformed to my feet quickly. The soles are pure leather. It took very little time to break these. I bought 42's. My true size seems to be 10.5 US You have a lot of Nine West, these size accordingly. These and a light grey pair are the only two I bought. Price with shipping was over $100 back then. A bit pricey.

$100 including shipping seems like a bargain now.

20 hours ago, Shyheels said:

I think most people put in more hours at home. They start earlier (no commute) and tend not to switch off. The temptation to just finish something after dinner is always there and often acted upon. That has been the experience of all the people I know.

Not this guy, I put in less hours. But when I did get started I was way more productive as no one else was distracting me. So that made up for it.

The problem with downsizing is that it takes a lot of work and above all energy to downsize. Offering shoes for sale, both here and on the local auction sites can sometimes take forever. And when you try to sell elsewhere it draws in a lot of crazies and low ballers. Sometimes it's just easier to throw your unwanted pairs into a local 2nd hand clothes collection bins. Easy to do with cheap shoes, but what about the really expensive ones? No wonder we get out of control collections. I finally understand women in that regard. It takes zero effort to buy new shoes, it takes quite some effort to sell old shoes.

I think you might put in less hours working from home. So if that's the metric to go by, which is usually the only one that Pointy Haired Bosses know, then yeah, working from home is less productive. But working in an office does not make you more productive. There is coming in, getting the coffee, talking with your colleagues, checking email, lunch, after lunch dip, constantly getting distracted by office talk, Pointy Haired Bosses. And if I don't feel like it, there's always the internet to browse. So yeah, i put in more hours at the office probably, there's no guarantee I will be more productive. Coffee, email, lunch, lunch dip, they're at home too. But when I am going fully at it there's no colleagues and Pointy Haired Bosses to distract me. We should move away from having to work X amount of hours and instead move to productivity. That you are supposed to do X amounts of work per week. And how you do it, and where you want to do it, should be up to you. If you want to work really hard for like a day or two so you have more free time the rest of the week. And not get assigned more by a Pointy Haired Boss. Because then I ain't gonna work so hard and watch more cat videos behind his back, because then there is no incentive for me to work hard.

23 hours ago, Jkrenzer said:

OK, the geek is on.

For all its imagery, Star Wars was a joke. Every weapon is manually aimed like a world War 2 anti aircraft gun. Oh, don't get me started on laser guns that recoil or putting all your ships in a line and using broadside cannons. Or how about dropping racks bombs over a target in a gravity free environment. 

Well, Star Wars was after all WW2 in space. Star Trek on the other hand was Horatio Hornblower in space, with lone Starships duking it out at close range like 18th century sailing ships. And the great Star Wars vs. Star Trek debate was settled decades ago. When Episode 2 got released and with it came a little book called Incredible Cross Sections. Before geeks spent endless ages debating the range and power of weapons in both settings. ICS settled that debate once and for all when it stated that the output of a turbo laser gun was 200 gigaton. Game over for Star Trek. I was on the Spacebattles forum at that time. Before we used have endless debates about the subject, after ICS came out it trickled to almost nothing.

Ironically, since Disney discarded the book EU after the great Catastrophy, it buying Star Wars, I wonder if that means that ICS is now also out of the door. Not that it matters much, both fandoms have seriously declined due to shitty new content.

22 hours ago, Shyheels said:

I would not say that style preferences - platforms vs single soles - is geeky at all, but a fairly broad style debate. This is after all a fashion website, and matters of style, colour, ornamentation are part of the discussion. 

Geeky, to my mind, is when you start doing things such as measuring the width of your heel to debate how many millimetres wide is a “true stiletto” instead of merely a high heel, and start splitting hairs and getting into verbal semantics. 

Geekiness expesses itself in many ways. And in our particular geekdom single sole vs. platforms is the Great Debate. Great debates are rarely about splitting hairs like range of transporters or the Jefferies tube system of the Enterprise, they are Star Trek vs Star Wars.

Embrace your inner geek! I dare say high heel geek fits you better then some of the epitaphs people will give you.

On 12/27/2022 at 12:23 PM, mlroseplant said:

Oh, good grief! This discussion has been going on since the Jenny days. And I'm sure well before the internet was a thing. We evidently are all true brothers here, because we seem to enjoy arguing a lot.

This is what geeks do, and I consider us high heel geeks in this regard. Who was the better captain, Kirk vs Picard (Kirk has won that handsomely now), who would win in a fight, the USS Enterprise vs. an Imperial Star Destroyer, the debates were endless. Geeks will endlessly split hair. Because we care and because we live to split hair on our favorite subjects. If we didn't then it would be a sign of us no longer giving a damn. So long may the endless single sole vs. platform debate continue! And yes, platforms look clunky and fugly.

Even I were to wear heels out of the home, which I don't, all the concerts I have been too were general admission, cause I hate sitting on the stands. GA is where all the energy and fun is happening. The downside of that is LOTS of standing before the show even starts. There were times where my feet ached before the show even started. So comfy flats it will be. Although, having a pair with heels that can extend to make you see over the heads would be cool. But that's why I get in line as early as possible, to get a good spot up front so I can see. As for in the mosh pits? Forget it even more.

On 12/2/2022 at 12:16 AM, VirginHeels said:

To be honest, when I’ve tried with my guitar rig, it’s easier with pointed toe heels as you can direct to what you need on a switch. Wah is a slight adjustment to get the pivot point correct. It’s about motor adjustment. Not a big thing, it’s trying to modify muscle memory to be honest.

I just can't get the hang right, the heel always keeps on slipping off. Maybe it needs a slight upstanding edge to keep it from sliding off?

On 12/2/2022 at 12:16 AM, VirginHeels said:

Now we do all that via MIDI switching or using a digital amp/effects interface, so his tone and playing would have changed if he was alive today.

HE might be one of those guitarists who detest digital and swear with using only analog pedals and tube amps only.

On 12/2/2022 at 2:43 AM, Mr. X said:

perhaps.  But also boss pedals are just good pedals.  That is why they are so popular, and widely used.

They're pretty too. It's like your first love, it imprints on you. When I started playing guitar Boss pedals were top of the line and the biggest on the market. So my first instinct is always to check them out over the boutique stuff. Which is mostly tricked out clones of Boss. MXR and EHX pedals anyway. Plus Boss pedals are built like a tank. Perfect for life on the road and perfect to stomp on in heels.

I do wonder how he managed to operate his pedalboard in heels.

Tapping switches is one thing, but operating a wah or expression pedal is hard when you (or at least I) have a high chance of the heel slipping off. I wonder if his footwear was why he used so many Boss pedals, their big lever switches are very pointy shoes (and thus heel) friendly.

She has also done a video in red. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpiL5FW9_v4 I love that model sandal, too bad Pleaser changed them, they're now a centimeter higher then they used to be in the larger sizes. They're now outside of my range of ankle flexibility to walk in. Which is a shame because they used to come in every color you wanted, as long as it was black, and nowadays they really do offer more colors.

This is one skill I have never managed to master. Which is why 5.5" is my limit, even though I can walk comfortably in the 5" to 5.5" range. I just cannot straighten out my ankles.

On 11/15/2022 at 6:11 PM, Shyheels said:

It ticked a box and scored some Twitter approved publicity in September - job done. Next…

Virtue signaling in a nutshell.

17 hours ago, Pumped said:

Plus she was complaining about everything over 2 inches!🤣

Which shows exactly that she cannot wear any heels to begin with. Another sneaker queen who likes heels in theory but hates heels in practice.

I don't have anything below 11cm, with 12cm my preferred comfortable height. 10cm would be like walking in flats to me. Sadly the vast majority of women are incapable of walking in heels because they never got into walking in heels in the first place. It's been sneaker culture for most of them, or the accursed army boots I see everywhere. Now heels may be desired by women, but little to no experience for most of them, all we will get is low to mid heels, platforms and a lot of whinging.

On 10/8/2022 at 8:02 PM, Shyheels said:

I’m not being pessimistic just a realist. If you showed up for a job interview for a high powered position in stiletto heels, the interviewers would rate you as not a serious candidate, regardless of your qualifications. Like it or not appearances matter, and a guy in stiletto heels is not the appearance big companies are looking for. You might wish it were otherwise, and so might I, but it ain’t. 

I disagree. I think you would be exactly what they are looking for. Maybe not the CEO of the company, but they see a guy showing up in heels and they think Ka-Ching! Instant ESG rating and Alphabet Cult credit!

We're back to lean hard times it would seem. Crazies on the left invading our spaces making the general public think we're Alphabet Cult adjacent, and now the return of the accursed platforms back again. Disaster never travels alone.

If they left the keys in they obviously wanted you to take it for a spin. What possible explanation could there be?