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A few days ago, warm day and I needed sandals.

Here's my first entry....a work outfit

It's also thick padding under rugs in plush hotels. I had troble in my JS 4+" knee highs and had to switch to my impo 3.5" high calf boots the next day. Several women told me that they had trouble in heels at the convention and asked how I managed to over come the challenge.

For me it is the girth of my toebox vs the narrowness of my heel. I have to use mens US 9.5 EEE to get my feet into most shoes, then have to deal with 1/2 inch of space on both sides of my heel.  Women's regular US size 10 (sometimes 11 on pointed shoes) fits great most of the time. I just have trouble with vamps, especially all pumps and shoes with toe straps that aren't adjustable.

I wish I had known this many decades ago and avoided numerous ankle and knee surgeries.

Walking on lawn's in stilettos also causes the stiletto to get very dirty.

As a kid I had metal taps put on my dress shoes. Hated those metal tabs. I also had to endure arch supports, which caused uneven wear. In the 50's early 60's that's part of what they did to control uneven wear on my shoes.

The real problem was that my foot is very different from a 'average' man's foot, so all those those things they did to me was to try to force my foot into a boy's shoe. I now understand the damage it did to my knee and ankles.

Women's heel is like wearing slippers compare to any ill-fitting men's shoe.

I could easly fill this thread with 365 posts a year.

I was at a conference yesterday with over 300 people. Second conference with this group, but I am known by almost all by my foot wear (and nails).  Several women told me they wore heels this time because of me last time. It nice to have that sort of influence. I had planned on wearing my knee high JS suede stillettos, but I had trouble walking in my Jessica Simpson 4 inch block knee high on Friday because the carpet padding was thick (plush hotel). So, I wore my 3.5 inch Impo Owney knee high (really only high calf boots). I had several conversations with both women and men about my choice of footwear.

1 hour ago, Bubba136 said:

 2) Those that recognize others failing to understand that there is no such thing as more than 100% of anything. 
 

 

The value of my house has increased by 300% over the last 10 years.  If I had bought Apple stock at $10/share, I think it would have now be worth 10000%. And I think @kneehighs hopes his bitcoin investments will be worth more than 100% of what he paid for them.

On 4/19/2024 at 5:01 AM, Jkrenzer said:

I agree 100%.

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Another pet peave, people who say more than 100%. There is no such thing. 

I agree 100%!

A little too much bling for me. But if you can rock them, then enjoy.

It's been a wet winter and I haven't been able to wear my suede JS stilettos much.

I had a blue day on Thursday.

Only two interesting comments.

I woman I know told me,"I don't like blue shoes, but I like those."

And our Admin. Assist: "I'm surprise you're not in open toe heels today." It was a warm (high 70's) day.

About 5-6 years ago I was vindicated of a fraudulent 'MeToo' harassment charge. The accuser resigned shortly afterwards. I was thanked by many men and women throughout the organization for standing up to her 'bully' style of threatening to using the 'MeToo movement' to get her way. A couple even cried while thanking me. 

Great about the green stilettos, but the man in the skirt could just be a lost Scotlander.  😁

That's interesting because either JS's fit or they don't. But if they fit they are real easy to walk in.  In fact I will be wearing my JS knee boots today with faux suede and block 4 inch heels.  A wet day with down pours.

Wear the high heel boots to work first.

 Frick and Frack are jealous. First of your weight loss and second you look better than either of them could.

I just saw this scene in 'The Waterboy" where Henry Winkler is depictied as the coach to the football team that the Waterboys starring on .. broken telephone cord, and high heels .

Had not seen (or remembered) this scene before.

Another swing and miss (for the anglophile a referrence to baseball).

Jessica Simpson Devalyn Platform Sandal

The vamp is too tight so these have to go back.  

Here is my entry into the ALMOST worn to death.  I know some of you (aka @mlroseplant ) might have issues with the word 'almost'.

These have must several hundred miles on them, but they are still very comfortable. I wear them for running errands only, like today to Costco in the rain.

Here they are next to their replacement.  Unfortunately, these sold out before I could get a thrid pair and a oair in another color.  But they are real suede, so they hold very well.

As promised, here is pictures from the autopsy of my Cathy Jeans Hells.

The gold trim brought lots of compliment.

Again the heel cap came off at the same airport. At about the same place in the airport

Close up of the complete failure of the material.

Split at the back.

I think it is also about building up your ankle strength.  I saw a story in I think a New York Newspaper about how a Korean airline trained their flight attents to wear stilletos.  It took me about 1 minute to go from 2 inch heels to 4 and 5 inch heels, but I had had years of ankle therapy after many ankle reconstructions.

I had a major failure yesterday. I flew yesterday and wore a pair of Cathy Jeans. Cathy Jeans were a non defunct company out of Argentina. One of my first pairs with about a 3 inch heel with gold trim. (Photo later.)  One of my favorite heels, but being short I hadn't worn them in years. But I decided to wear them yesterday.

First the heel cap disappear in about the same location as my other one did. But this was a one day trip, there and back in under 12 hours, so I NO luggage, i.e. no other shoes I could change into. Therefore I had to wear them in that condition all day. Then later I notice that the material cracking and delaminating.  So sad. I will real liked these.

I will take parts off of them and then donate them to HinH Heel Hill.

Many of my gladiator wedges have delaminated. I can't find heels to replace them and I have been looking!

I know of several women at work that consistantly wear heels.  We compare them all the time. Today the President told be about some boots she is considing.

I see more heels since I am now in higher management circles.