Cali

I visited my favorite store two weeks ago and walked out with a new pair of SpeedLimit98 heels. That's the trouble with visiting your favorite store, it can be hazardous to your wallet.

Megan dear, me thinks its the mushrooms you had with breakfast.  But at least you have been to California.  But 30 years ago...time for a new visit. Just remember to bring your sun screen, you Brits burn really fast.  I also need to make it over the pond, haven't been to jolly ode England since the summer of 69.

Now here's your San Diego Zoo song; enjoy!

Worm

I'm around younger people all day and I find the younger woman are for the most part okay with my footwear; jealous sometimes because they can't wear what I normally wear - too tall.

Parting with such a faithful pair can be bitter sweet as you remember the fun times. But if you let your toe stick out you run the risk of getting it stuck out like that and that operation really sucks with 6 inch pins stuck through your toes and feet. I broke (smashed) mine. (I talked with a woman at Macy's one day while we where both trying on shoes and she had a baby toe with a mind of it own and she was complaining about have a hard time getting her toe into shoes

I just had two of my first 4" heels give up the this month (that's why I started the Mileage Topic). Today while shopping for another bookcase to hold my heels I came across a Charles by Charles David Apollo in my size, I got it to replace the Apollo that broke (still going to try to repair it with "glue"), only this new one is tan and the one I currently have is turquoise. The turquoise was a "fan favorite" with lots of compliments each time I wore them.

Dance

1 hour ago, meganiwish said:

I'm entirely self appointed.  We in the Ministry of Shorts, or Minishort as it will be in Newspeak (not to be confused with the Ministry of Skirts, or Miniskirt, which will make the maxi skirt compulsory) are mostly concerned with what happens in Nebulandia, as England is to be renamed.  Californians can get on with doing things much as they like, being stuck out there on the westernmost fringes. We need Californians, much as the Medieval world needed 'Here be dragons.'  No sane person quite believes in them.  The mythical status of Californians owes much to the writings of The Mamas & The Papas and The Beach Boys.

Of course you are The Self-Appointed Nebulandia Minishort.  After seeing how fast Nuebulandiars burn I can understand why you have to in act such a silly decry.

As you sit there in your maxi skirt under gray skies of Nebulandia reading the internet on your device from those mythical Californians just remember you NEED us "Edge of the World Dreamers" in shorts inventing the next latest and greatest. And some of us are doing it in high heels and shorts.

Klein Bottle

That's the beauty of test driving, you don't have to buy them. Love test driving high end things: cars, skis, ... why not shoes? And it so much cheaper.

Hexaflexagon

I was the only person in this SM outlet, so I tried on every USW size 10 in their store. They only had one OTK boot but it didn't fit. Didn't find anything I wanted, but still had fun.

I enjoy test driving any heels in the store!

Spend an hour trying on heels at a Steve Madden outlet store last week.  Plan to spend an hour or more at a DSW tomorrow morning. Then hopefuly spend a day shoe shopping in San Francisco some time in the next month.

Hexagonal

3 hours ago, meganiwish said:

Are you ten years old? Are you performing some sport? Are you doing some work in hot conditions?  Then you are allowed to wear shorts.

Are you older than ten doing none of the above?  Wear trousers.

Who made you the Minister of Shorts????  "Allowed to wears shorts."  LOL 

I'm decades and decades and.. older than 10 and I wear shorts and heels all summer long. At work, everywhere.

I even have worn my shorts with my calf high boots, to work no less..

Maybe not in cloudy England, but here by the beach on the California coast shorts RULE!!!!!!!!!! 

Edit:

PS I have nice shaped legs, tan, with just the right amount of hair.

Scotchguard

I'm short, 5'10", but with 5-6" heels I'm 6'3"+, I know I get looked at more than when I 'm in running shoes.

I get about 15 months from a pair of running shoes/walking shoes and then they are just too worn out. But it's not about wearing out the sole, but wearing out the shoe. I hope to get many miles from my Freebird boots and since they are leather, they can be resoled. What I am talking about are fashion heels, like a pair of <$40 heels.

Vivid Sydney

Mezcal

I'm relatively new to high heel wearing so I am still learning some of the parameters. First note that I might wear a pair of shoe for 8 to 16 hours a day. I was saying that I had some shoes on yesterday that I got in 2015 and had worn maybe 60 to 70 times (or 800 to 900 hours) and the woman I was talking with was surprise I had gotten so much use out of them. So how much use (mileage) do you expect to get out of a pair of heels?  If you wear heels to work everyday, aka a serious wearer, how many pairs do you wear out a year?

By the way, nice heels.

Or maybe being a volleyball match a tall person might be thought of as a player/coach type.

Blueberry

Pinkie Fights

Yacht