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9 hours ago, Pierre1961 said:

Hey Si Mai fits my feet pretty well! Yes strange. But I can’t find there the model/ heel height I wish 

 

Yeah, they've got nothing over 5". Which actually makes them easy daily wear for me.

On 1/13/2022 at 9:23 AM, nyenor said:

Being a single guy in my late seventies I need one of these to clean my home. Where can I purchase one?

I'm sure a model like that will turn up on Aliexpress. You know the Chinese, if they think they can make money of it they will copy anything. 😉

On 1/31/2022 at 7:13 PM, VirginHeels said:

I’m looking at a few pairs of boots from OnlyMaker at the moment. What would be the best sizing info for a size 9UK/42-43EU foot?

Do OnlyMakers come with a weird smell? I’d like to know what they are like to wear, in terms of comfort.

Thanks.

They run pretty true to size. A size EU43 should fit you. And if you want to dip your feet into the waters first, get the cheapest pump you can find on their site and order that one first. This is why I am always so hesitant ordering really expensive brands or bespoke shoes. Whereas $45 for a pair of Onlymakers? People spend more of that on lunch at a hipster restaurant. You might even want to check places like Zalando because from time to time they stock them too. Got two pair off of Zalando that way.

On 1/31/2022 at 7:40 PM, Pumped said:

If you order a pair of Onlymakers, make sure you can return them easily. I have tried two different times with different styles and they simply do not fit my feet. The length and width were correct, but the shape of the instep, or inner sole was really weird.

I can buy shoes from most any well known company and they fit fine, Guess, Nine West, Micheal Kors, Jessica Simpson, JLO, I could go on, but Onlymakers just don't fit!

On 2/1/2022 at 8:21 AM, Pierre1961 said:

Same for me. Onlymaker just don’t fit my feet!

They fit me just fine. Different feet on different people. I've seen people sing the praise of Hey Si Mai heels as the bestest ever and they fit me as bad as Onlymaker seems to fit you guys.

1 hour ago, Isolathor said:

In Germany the use of the english term "high heels" means at least 4"/10cm and a slender/thin heel. If you have a shoe with a blockheel it will be called "Absatzschuh", even if it is in excess of 4"/10cm. 

An example:"

In german understanding these are not "high heels" but "Absatzschuhe", despite a heel of more than 10cm.

In Dutch high heels are high heels. Whether or not they have thin heels or chunky abominations. We do have the term naaldhakken or needle heels for thin heels. I reckon every country has its own terms and definitions. Which is another part why this discussion is super nerdy, as we're arguing about a definition/term unique to English speaking countries and which to those outside of those countries means very little.

I can't say I like the heel shape, it feels too much a like a form of deconstruction as it were. The appeal of the classic high heel is that it flows around the heel of the foot and through its flowing line becomes an extension of it. Still a lot of better then chunky heels or platforms though. And yes, I would call it a stiletto. Although its not a term that sees much use here in the Netherlands. I don't think I've ever heard it being used. It's always been heels or high heels.

I think splitting hairs with a measuring tool is a bit on the nerdy side. But if it gives us a fun thread with lots of pics we all come out as winners. Personally I think the most of us can recognize what to us is a stiletto heel when we see one and we know which shapes tickle our fancy and which ones make us recoil in horror.

19 hours ago, CAT said:

Good thread, well said.

I have wanted Casadei Blades in shoes or boots and have no issue with the price, they stop at size 10 and that sucks!!, I am an 11

I like them too, but at that price I'll take a Chinese knockoff from Onlymaker. Sorry, Casadei, one Chinese knockoff sale does not equal one lost sale in your case as at that price you  never had me. Plus you don't have anything in my size range anyway.

19 hours ago, Shyheels said:

With all that going on I’m surprised the Italian mafia hasn’t applied for protection under the denomination of origin rules, like Parma ham and French champagne. 

They should. The Balkan and East European mafia's are friggin' ruthless. Considering they had to operate under communism they had to be.

16 hours ago, Isolathor said:

And she made them all by herself, with just a little help from me ..... 😉

Ah, mum's the word then.

Europe has become unified in many things, but crime refuses unification. They like the open borders though. There's Italian mafia, Russian mafia, former Yugoslavian mafia, Romanian mafia, Bulgarian mafia, Albanian mafia, Turkish mafia (at war with the Kurdish mafia), Moroccan mafia. So many mafia. Every time we get a new influx of immigrants we get their mafia free of charge with them. Damn straight that Helen needs bodyguards. 😁

I've never had any issues walking in high heels again after a long time in flats. Or even after weeks of not wearing them. Usually I wear mine around the house, and probably a little more now that I have to work at home. But sometimes I just don't feel like it. Like now. And sometimes there's no point in wearing them around the house all day because I have to get out, or take an zoom fitness class.

Asos sometimes has some. Onlymaker makes affordable shoes at a reliable sizing too. There's always Pleaser of course. But overall you or should I say your GF is boned. Flats are easy as she can always wear men's sneakers. For heels you have to keep an eye on the usual stores and webshops if they release something in a bigger size range and usually they're gone faster then toilet paper during covid. And God help you if you try to order ANYTHING off aliexpress, because we will sooner figure out Olmek hieroglyphs, who killed JFK and the mystery of Planet Nine then the mysteries of Chinese shoe sizing.

Finding affordable heels in a larger size range is probably the most asked question here and there is just no simple answer, otherwise we would all be over it and be swimming in large sized heels. Genetics screwed your GF because mainstream shoe retail just plainly refuses to acknowledge that women are getting bigger. She has our sympathy because we have the same problem and we are still trying to figure it out ourselves too.

4 minutes ago, mickeyunc said:

I really like onlymakers

 

To my surprise I recently discovered that Zalando was selling Onlymaker now. Too bad most of the larger sizes were already gone. And I finally got my first pair in my regular EU43 size that was really tight.

3 hours ago, Shyheels said:

If that is an Act of God then any unexpected happening or accident could also be considered an Act of God. So what is the point of insurance?

A scam to make the insurance company rich?

Considering that women are wearing those fugly combat boots, thinking it works well with mini skirts, I am not surprised to hear things in this article like the chunkier the better. Women in general have forgotten how to wear heels, so platforms offer them a convenient way out to cheat. All the height, zero effort.

Never been a fan of those long nosed pumps or boots. Thankfully the model wearing them is flawless. I get the impression though that these long nosed shoes and boots are very popular in Russia. I see a lot of them crop up in Russian vids.

On 12/15/2021 at 11:48 AM, mlroseplant said:

This is ironic, as I've favored platforms for years (though not the super huge 70s style), but lately I've been gravitating toward single sole. Always a day late and a dollar short.

They say that wisdom comes with age. 😁

9 hours ago, Histiletto said:

The platformed and blocked heel shoes of the 1970's and early 80's were the footwear that made people's feet seem hideously and disproportionately large, which scratches the virtual chalkboard with my mind's finger nails. The more I saw them on display and being worn, the less I wanted to have anything to do with them. So the return of the 70's platforms have no bearing on my footwear choices.

The streamlined, slender sleekness of the stiletto pumps continue to be my preferred choices for footwear no matter what fashions are trending. The average size stiletto pump shoes can even have slendered and tapered platformed toe boxes of less than 1.5 inches tall that look like they are part of the design and not added at the last minute, when the stiletto heels are equivalently taller than 4.5 inches. Putting platforms on average size shoes with heel heights less than 4 inches only makes the wearer's feet look displeasingly and awkwardly larger with most heel styled footwear, as a general speculation. 

I wonder if your formative era, like in your teens when you start to notice these things, and develop your first, for lack of a better word, fetishes, if the fashions of that era play a role in it. Platforms were big in the 70's late 90's and 00's. I wonder if the people who now like either single sole, or platforms, what their formative years were. Cause mine were in the 80's when big hair, shoulder pieces and single sole heels ruled and IMHO they still rule! Well, not the hair and shoulder pieces of course. Maybe everyone else can chime in and state their formative years and heel preference, as a fun little experiment?

Most definitely not bedroom wear. If you value your bedsheets that is.

And to think I was so proud of myself for having drunk the local water and not gotten ill at all throughout my stay there and it was the last day. Those the Gods wish to punish they inflict with hubris.

2 hours ago, spikesmike said:

Heelers : This is a subject I agree with entirely. I have been able to avoid the ingrown toenail problem - My foot doctor removed all of my toenails years ago. As for posture, If I walk on a concrete surface for any length of time in (men) flat heel shoes, I suffer great pain. SO, joy - high heels it is .   

I once lost a toenail, infection at the base, it came lose there and over time fell off. I thought I was rid of it forever yet it grew back within months. Am I unique in that or did you do something extra to stop that from happening?

6 hours ago, mlroseplant said:

Love the white jeans, although I don't dare indulge myself in the wearing of such. I can't seem to even make it out of the house without getting them dirty.

I've been traumatized with white jeans ever since that time I was walking in the streets of Tehran and suddenly had a surprise attack of Montezuma's Revenge. Try walking back to your hotel with some dignity and a brown bottom.

23 hours ago, Cali said:

Not AliExpress, but Express,  an American fashion retailer.  I have only bought clothing from them (love their leggings/jeans and tops), so this is my try at their shoes

Never heard of them. Then again with American retailers you always get hit with customs charges, whereas Ali seems to be able to sneak under the radar. Cheeky Chinese buggers! So after a while you learn to stop checking for US retailers.

9 hours ago, Isolathor said:

My wife once bought a pair of high heels from Italy, when the shoes arrived they were to left ones. We emailed the company, they said sorry and we send the heels back to get a proper pair. When that pair arrived it was to right shoes ...... we send them back also, and apparently they didn't have any pair of left and right shoes in her size anymore, so they refunded the money.

At least we had a good laugh! 😀

I had me two of the same sent as well, from Ali. I just took the refund because sending them back was more money then they cost.

On 11/28/2021 at 9:04 AM, VirginHeels said:

Traditional sizing you are correct, it’s only 2.45mm of a difference. However most woman's sizing now has gone to mens sizes for the likes of trainers and hiking boots. However for heels and traditional shoes some now use a hybrid start point that’s the case of a 1.1mm difference. That’s what I was lead to believe.

In other news, awoke this morning to a Asos notification that a pair of their mens heels are back in stock. So I have a pair with that heel that folk don’t like on their way.

Hey, you do you and we might snigger a bit but we will never think of you as a terrible person.

On 11/29/2021 at 3:05 AM, Cali said:

I was just force to buy some booties from Express, 50% off, free shipping and an extra $15 off. Total price $31. See I was forced.

Damn those cheap Chinese prices! You were totally forced indeed!

I'd buy Ali empty of shoes too if it weren't that from bitter experience I've learned that getting the right fit is next to impossible.

8 hours ago, Jkrenzer said:

How could any guy not like a woman im heels. I don't get that at all. 

Personally I'd rather see a woman in pretty flats then ugly heels.

1 hour ago, VirginHeels said:

Yup, and it’s a no from me.

As I work in a environment where I can see up to 7,000 a day, they have been coming into the amount coming in increasing. Plus the old brothel creeper shoes, or at least that’s what they were called in 1960 and 1970s Glasgow.

Its a worrying trend, but a trend none the less. I have, and am pleased to report on my basic daily viewings, that more heels are being worn by women. When I asked one woman who I’d never seen wear a splendid pair of 4 inch black stiletto boots before, the reply was this: “well, I take 3 fold, I just split up with my boyfriend and he hated me in heels, the fact I like them and I am doing it for me, plus I’m starting a new job soon where heels whilst are not a requirement it’s looked on more favourable to wear them. I’m looking forward to spending 10 hours a day in heels”

She said that she has heels now for “every outfit, work and play”

If it’s a start to normalise heels on men, I’m all for it. Just not taking part in it.

This is not a trend I see happening in my neck of the woods. Outside some chunky heels I see zero heels being worn.

As for platforms I'm with Shyheels, I LOATH the damn things.

I agree, there's more red flags then a communist may day parade. Temp, I know you have a serious case of shoe lust because of the Carrie La Chance connection, but be careful.

54 minutes ago, mlroseplant said:

Pierre, you have once again hit upon a topic which is sometimes controversial for us here at HHP, and that is, how much of our feelings are fetish, and how much are fashion? I won't deny having a bit of fetish, but I certainly don't care for things like the above photo, because how can you wear that out in the real world, even if walking in them were not a problem?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, most men that put on heels do so because its a fetish to them. Only a very tiny minority is like the men here who, on average are more interested in the fashion aspect. And there is also the drag queens of course. Who are also not part of this community. Part by admin design it would seem. Like all internet communities this is an echo chamber of like minded people and we should do well to always keep that in mind.

Well, I think the US and NATO have been quite keen to have that constitution changed for decades now. Just like the US would welcome a change to Japan's constitution for that same reason. Limiting what the Bundeswehr can do limits its usefulness to the US as an ally. Although it might have been a blessing in disguise preventing you guys to join into some of the US crazy military adventures like Iraq or Syria. Still, knowing that there is a strong capable Bundeswehr in their rear to back them up might make the Poles and the Baltics stop looking for Washington for military protection all the time. Which in turn might make the Russians less nervous.