Cali

13 hours ago, Cali said:

Asked me if I was jealous.

12 hours ago, pebblesf said:

I know I am....

I wasn't jealous because they were PUMPS and my feet aren't pump friendly.

Also, I have enough heels that there are some that rarely see daylight.

Only 200?

My friend showed me pictures of her anut's high heel shoe collection, 600 to 800 pairs, mostly pumps. Asked me if I was jealous.

Only 200?

I have many leggings that are for specific purposes. My therma-compressions are my skiing base layer. My fleece are so soft and make a great 'pajama' bottom or layed under sweatpants to work my garden in the winter.   And thin ones for a cool summer evening. ....  

You don't have to wear skirts to wear leggings.  All you need is cold legs.

You may want to look at leggings instead of tights. They might be easier to find and warmer.  I love my Ultra-Luze Velour Leggings (Felina), they keep my legs warm.

4 hours ago, Shyheels said:

I’ve been trying to find good tights to wear with my skirt - an important winter consideration (although I’d wear tights whenever I wore a skirt) Waist size is easy to find, but the length is tricky. At most they seem to be for people 5’8” or 5’9”

Try adding 'TALL" to your searches.  Googling 'Tall tights' gave pages of places.

You will see stilettos on a lot on women that 'host' talk shoes, news casters - especially 'weather girls', and politicians.

And me if I ever get on TV.

LOL...I have several of those boots and wear them the same way with just different tops.  Just don't wear my suede or leather in the snow.

@Shyheels Men's purple pants are hard to come by.

@mlroseplant Although most of my pants have belt loops, I can't wear a belt because of the donor site on my hip cuff. Most of the pants I have that are belt-loopless have ever elastic waistline or multiple buttons on the inside to adjust the waist. But you could also get suppenders.

As a planitift in a suit, the amount of money I received (with was several hundred thousand) in no way compensates me for the pain I will live with for the rest of my life. Muiti-millions wouldn't be enough.

5 hours ago, pebblesf said:

I've got chicken legs, 

Did it come with fries or salad? JK

I grew up going to the beach at least 3 days a week in the summer, playing sports, riding bikes.  Some of my friends ran track or other sports. Had a pool ...

Shorts was a way of life, still is at almost 70.

You crack me up @Shyheels.  No shorts (I call shorts down to your knees capries) but a skirt. I can understand that short shorts are out for the Brits. I've been there in the 'summer' and glad I had my down jacket. But when the temps are over 80 F (26 C) short shorts or shorter are in order.

Animal prints are fun. I have several I wear to work often. A leopard print hoodie (men's) in green/brown, leopard print sherpa, and a new cheetah print vest. All three get compliments from both men and women whenever I wear them. But I agree, women have more latitude with what they can wear.

I wonder what would happen if I showed up at work in an asymmetrical off-the-shoulder top and a mini skirt? 🙃

Or would they be just as shocked if I showed up in a three piece suit, with tie, ... ?😁🤨

I too have a very colorful wardrobe, and very short shortsl. I even have several warm and cousy fuzzy animal print sherpas and vests that women always want to come up and touch.

I haven't worn a suit in over 15 years and can't remember the last time I wore a tie. 

I live within blocks of the Pacific Ocean, so quick stops for bikini clad young women is something to watch out for while driving.

But Shyheels, aren't there very few cars on the canals?  When the car stops so you can cross in front of them in a parking lot ..

Sometimes you can't help but notice them noticing you. Example: this afternnon, the guy in a car that slowed down and stared at my feet as he passed.  You can't not notice that. 

9 hours ago, CrushedVamp said:

But in taking this reply full circle, it was interesting that Mark Twain, a prolific plagiarist who read other peoples literary works and resold them to support his afflicted lifestyle, stole an account from this great great great uncle of mine regarding a strange sailing trip he took around Cape Horn. Like others Mark Twain stole from, his account was almost word for word my great uncle wrote. It is why I have such a deep hatred of those who plagiarize and guard so well against it in my own writing.

As an author of many college science textbooks (one of many hats I have worn), I am very concern over AI STEALING my work (without conpensation).

I had my monthly manicure today, I had 3 compliments in the first 2 hours afterwards. Now do I notice others noticing me? Yes; for example from this afternoon: I notice the woman at Costco whose eyes dove straight to my feet as we past each other (I have great peripheral vision).  I may not notice every one, but I do see many double takes or stares when they occur in front of me. And for those that know me, I know many will look just to see what I am wearing that day.

7 hours ago, CrushedVamp said:

May I ask a question, stated as such so you know this is not a challenge to what you said but rather a bonafide curiosity and with the utmost respect?

Isn't that the intrigue, and mystique about wearing high heels, that it's the wearing of something that can be mastered perhaps, but not every step, nor over every possible medium, and certainly having varying challenges with different shoes? 

I do not wear high heels so I cannot answer that question, but for those that do, men and women alike, isn't part of the fun treading that fine line between being comfortable in wearing them to not? To walking casually on a concrete sidewalk one moment and then having to thread grating the next? Perfectly posed one second, and then struggling to balance the next? I can say with utmost authority wearing my work shoes I barely give a thought to what is on my feet as I go about my workday, but I would think one of the huge drivers of wearing high heels is the acute awareness that you are wearing challenging footwear at almost every moment. I would think, to get to the point where you could walk anything but a slackline in high heels would get... well... boring.

I understand not wanting to look like you are doing the dying crab as you walk down a sidewalk, falling and stumbling as you go, but never fully mastering wearing of such challenging footwear would seem to me to be part of the thrill of wearing them?

I would think it would be good for ALL high heel wearers to keep that excitement and thrill. The wearing of high heels being a lifelong journey and not merely mastering them as being a goal.

And now for a different reason.

After multiple ankles reconstructions, I finally determined it was the shoes that were a major cause of my problems. Simply put, my foot shape meant that I could never get a solid footing in men's shoes. I switched to women's shoes and have had an ankle issue since.

Then I had a large tear in a calf. They should have operated on it, but they didn't. You must raise your heel to heal (it never comes back, but just calms down) the calf. Because of the metal that holds me together, I had to raise both heels. That instantly put me in high heels (at least 3.5 inch net difference). During that period, the pain in my hip greatly reduced and quickly returned when I tried to go back to flat (  < 4 cm) shoes. Since I have this dislike of pain, I wear high heels. And now I have fun with it, frequently during the colder months in knee high boots, including stilettos.

Even though I have been in heels for at least 10 years, I frequently encounter challenging surfaces. It’s amazing how a slight slant is magnified in heels. Old asphalt, uneven tiles, wet tiles, …

There are places and situations where I don’t wear high heels, but I try to limit those.

6 hours ago, at9 said:

I've had to change a lightbulb that was high up above the middle of a double bed. The room was a bit small and crowded so moving the bed wasn't really an option. Standing on a chair standing on a bed is precarious! Heels of any kind wouldn't have helped.

I'll avoid some of the "How many BRITS does it take to change a lightbulb?" jokes. Some are racially unacceptable. For much of the world except the UK there's the double entendre: "How many xxxx does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"

I put a stablizing surface (medium size plank of wood) down on the bed first. Then heels.

I was at a meeting last spring with 25 people facing each other in a rectangular table layout. After the meeting, a woman sitting across the room, took off her heels, took her sneakers out of her bag, put on her sneakers to go to her office upstairs in the same building. So she had 'meeting only heels'.

I can clean the top of my refrigerator and reach the items in the back of my tallest shelf in my kitchen.

Maybe she was sponsored.