Cali

2 hours ago, Thighbootguy said:

It's really hard when skirts and tops are priced at $3 and then there is a 50% off sale in progress.

Nobody said it was easy.

31 minutes ago, HappyinHeels said:

Cali: I guess a million is used more for effect here. Otherwise you're one of the wealthiest professors I have heard of. Just have to wonder what reaction there would be if a man were to file for divorce based upon his wife getting a tattoo or never wearing a dress or not wearing any makeup. All I can hear now is a symphony of crickets. I would say though, based upon your daily expression of footwear, you are indeed better off. HappyinHeels

I'm not wealthy in the slightest way. A million is just a low estimate, it's investments and real estate. I had to liquidate some assets early or at the wrong time and each meant losses in the hundreds of thousands. Changing of my residence alone cost over an extra $8,000 in just property taxes a year. Construction of my new house is estimated over $400,000.

Worth every cent!!!

MONEY

The hardest thing is to do is to control yourself and purchases. It's only when you change from a fetish collection to just your normal lifestyle clothing that you control it. While I could easily have well over 100 pairs of shoes, It would take over 3 months to wear all those heels and I wouldn't get to wear my favorite heels much. If you're going to be a fashion diva you can't wear the same heel more than twice a month. So I try to limit my purchases to 4-5 new pairs a year.

What good is a pair of heels if you never get a chance to wear them?

Same thing with other clothing types. Sixty percent of my clothing started out on the women's side of the store, but they are men's clothing now. But you need to control yourself, or buy a bigger house.

Silicon

Extraterrestial

On 6/14/2017 at 7:09 AM, Stoney3057 said:

Cali so what do you think of the ILNP? Was I right about photos don't do it justice? 

I have used 4 of the 5 colors I got from ILNP and I love them. My regular pedicurist wants to use them on top of some pastel color, while her friends thinks I should go black with a holographic on top to make it pop. With my regular pedicurist is leaving in August  . However, last week when she told me she was leaving, several asked if they be my next regular pedicurist . I push the limit more than most people and they enjoy the unique concepts and challenges I come in with. I like nail polish so much that I started an album of my nail color, mostly toes now. Compare the picture last night in wedges to the picture in the album same toes (pedicure), but the colors are so different.  I just love these new colors and possibilities.

3 hours ago, Rockbass19 said:

I get pedicures and I always get gels done with a clearcoat.

This was me 8 years ago, except there was no gels back then. The next step was a tint, rose tint. One day I went iridescent and swore my allegiance to OPI Kyoto Pearl for years. Still do it once in a while, but now I only avoid reds and pinks. Just not my color.

But I am also at this stage with my finger nails. I currently get Gelish Izzy Wizzy Let's Get Busy, a clear with sparkles. some angles its blue, other purple, and even others clear. I know in the next 3 or so years I will be sporty very colorful nail color on my fingers. I'm doing color for a day or two at time now, so I know it's just me getting comfortable with it.

Hawaiian T-shirt, shorts, hat. Just another day in the 80's.

Wore my Steve Madden Nalla Wedge Strappy Sandals in taupe for the first time today, only a 9 hour day. Got them on clearance in the winter, but haven't wore them more than to see that they fit and to add an extra hole to the strap. Got several compliments in them.

After 9 hours of wearing/walking.

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Potatoes 

TBG - I think by passable we mean that you look better than about 50% (or higher) of the female population. You took more time and effort to put your outfit together.

Since I sit on the administrator side elsewhere, I know there is a lot of spam requests generated to gain access to sites, multiple request, etc. There's a lot more than just processing request.  And it takes time to wade though stuff. 

I think another new member also said some thing about waiting.

I put an request into "heels4men.net" in late March and only recently got approved.

4 hours ago, Thighbootguy said:

Unfortunately when selected size 11 it returned "No items found."

Try again. I just went there and it told me 288 items. Here's on that you might like, size 11, in black (pink sold out - sorry), called "STUDIO". I like this myself, so next time I go to the mall I will go try this on at the steve madden store.

With an extra-thick platform sole, sky-high heel and flirty peep-toe, STUDIO is full of girly-glam attitude!  Style this statement sandal with ’70s-inspired getups to evoke the chicest divas of decades past!

• Suede upper material
• Man-made lining
• Man-made sole
• 5.5 inch heel height
• 1.25 inch platform
• Block heel
• Peep toe

5 hours ago, pebblesf said:

Don't let her get under your skin, she is just upset seeing you happy and doing well.  I don't know how old you kids are, but I'm sure they see their mother's antics as cruel and are happy for you...

It cost me about a million in lost retirement and extra taxes I will accumulate as a result, but worth every penny.

Kill them with grace. It makes them even madder.  

Set boundaries and call them on it when they violate your boundaries.  

My kids are in their mid-twenties now. My son saw it because he was still living with her and hear her on the phone to her sisters.

It looks like the black is rotated clockwise slightly. Try putting a quarter or two below the black tip and retake the photo.

The reason they are different is because they come of two slight different assembly lines using different raw materials.

Expect 3 to 5 weeks.

Cork

35 minutes ago, MackyHeels said:

Thanks Cali, Steve Madden  often come as high 10.5 US size if your lucky.  Like the shoes wooden heel is something i've looked upon with the type i want to buy. Only problem is 10.5 US might be size to small or half size. It would look bad or uncomfortable walking around with my toes hanging off the vamp. Only thing holding me in is slight fabric around the toes and ankle straps just as my video earlier shown with lady in wedge heel. 

Steve Madden goes up to size 11 and so do the lower end Madden Girl and the high end FreeBird line.

http://www.stevemadden.com/thumbnail/WOMENS/Shop-by-Size/pc/2163/2220.uts?parentCategoryId=2163&type=thumbnail&selectRefines=grp%3ASize|tx%3A11%2Cic%3A%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%2Csl%3At%2Cds%3Af&availRefines=Size|5^5.5^6^6.5^7^7.5^8^8.5^9^9.5^10^SMALL^MED^LARGE^10.0^11.0^5.0^6.0^7.0^8.0^9.0^ONESZ&mode=viewone

38 minutes ago, MackyHeels said:

Watched this video of shorter heel i would want same design yet higher heel additional platform.  Looks uncomfortable seeing her strides and foot seems loose in the mid sole slapping the footbed vamp at every stride. Don't know but to me it looks painful to walk in and very least blisters will form on the mid foot.

http://video.asos-media.com/products/ASOS/_media_/945/9453b27c-4a01-49a5-98bc-b335ec030857.mp4

To me this is a ill fitting shoe for her. She does not have enough of an arch for this heel and has to walk on her toes.

Sorry HinH not all thumbs are like that. If my thumb gets knocked out, I have go in (surgery) and have a nylon thread replaced....I'm bionic.

The tape method can also be used to keep your baby toe from escaping out the side of a gladiator style sandal.

I also want to repeat the best advise I have recieved while shopping for heels: 

Life's too short for shoes that hurt.

I will spend 4-6 hours straight mostly walking. I will sit on a table top for a minute or two while the students pull out their camera phones and take photos of the boards. So I only wear shoes that don't hurt. Foot care is very important to me. JeffB look into reflexology. It's worth every penny.

As a person ages the fat pads on the bottom of your feet thin and that is what is causing pain to may of you. That where gel pads help.

I use gel pads in every pair I have.

I am very lucky, my Reflexologist tells me I have the thickest pads she has seen.

1 hour ago, pebblesf said:

So sorry, sure hope things are better now, and that your freedom has also given you a better relationship with your kids....

It was scary at first. But you can only hear the statement "If you don't like it you can leave" so many times until you say, "I had enough of that" and "I tried of doing everything wrong". When it becomes abundantly clear that you and your spouse are not working on a common future together, then there is no future together. Besides she has awful taste in shoes.

I'm much happier now. And every time she has done to "get back at me" has back fired on her. And I just smile. I stay civil for the sake of our children, otherwise I would never talk to her again.

5 hours ago, w6ish said:

it was fun outing:  but i will say this much:  any time you wear fish net stockings, a mini skirt, and 6 inch heels, people are going to go crazy with their cameras.  i think i was photographed about 20 thousand times on Sunday!  

Who would have thought that people would take pictures of you in "fish net stockings, a mini skirt, and 6 inch heels".  How many are now out on the net?

5 hours ago, jeremy1986 said:

Nice work, @Cali

Those are stunning wedges...  they can make any legs look gorgeous!

Wedges??? Where???

measurements pictures

sheets

Looking good.

On 6/26/2017 at 4:52 PM, JeffB said:

Google "men in heels" and, more likely than not, you'll see lots of pictures of handsome, virile, often bearded men in their twenties and thirties usually wearing outrageously high, usually platform heels. Rarely, if ever, will you find handsome, virile, often bearded men in their 40's, 50's or older sporting plain, dull, but sensible three inch pumps. Heelers of a "certain age" are out there, this site is proof of that, but we never seem to enjoy our moment in the sun. Age discrimination, it's awful, guys!  

That's because some of us handsome, virile, shaved, men in our 60's also wear 4, 5, 6 inches platform heels. 

Sensible three inch pumps? NO WAY  NEVER!

JeffB stop pulling that age card. Your a youngster.