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  1. Just a reminder, Christmas time is a perfect time to find that perfect "gift" for that heel lover in your life (you?). And it's the season to find sales (music to my ears). Just be a wise shopper.

    I have a ankle boot coming next week.  If it fits, I'll post a picture. Otherwise, it goes back asap. 

    Speak about sales. I just purchase another pair of Jessica Simpson's Lexie Boots, knee highs for under $40 (usd) from DSW. I have a pair already and wear them all the time. This will be my back up pair; besides how can you say NO when they are under $40?

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  2. 1 hour ago, Puffer said:

    I quite like the look of leather or faux leather trousers, although I don't own any.   But I think that a man so clad could attract quite a lot of adverse attention from many people - more perhaps than if he was wearing obvious high heels.   They have a certain 'reputation' in the UK, unless worn by e.g. young (or once-young, now faded) pop singers and the like.   A shame, however; leather can look very smart.

     

    What can I say, I'm long pass being just a senior citizen.

  3. I had several people (mostly women) tell me I look fabulous. I just said WTF and went bold with my professional peers. And it paid off. 

     

    20 minutes ago, Shyheels said:

    I love the idea of leather trousers - I don’t own any though 

    They are not real leather trousers, they are faux leather. Many are coated leggings or jeans, but they give the impression of leather. Maybe @bluejay can add more about them.

  4. It all depends on where you are, location or event.  I saw so many women in high heels this week.  How many took them off when they got back to the car, I don't know, but with knee high stiletos, I don't think they would rermove them when they got to their car..

  5. I just got back from a professional conference with 250+ representative from around the state. This conference was held in a LARGE Hotel in a rich area in southern California. This fact will be important later in this ‘article’.

    Of course, I wore heels every day. To go with the other stories, I just read on this forum, today I also wore my leather pants and bodysuit to debate in. (BTW the leather pants were a hit and there is plan for a group leather pants day at the next big meeting.) About 30 women wore block heels over 3 inches all the time.  Last night at the reception, many more wore heels, including 10 stilettoes.

    BUT that’s not what this story is about. It about seeing HUNDREDS, yes, HUNDREDS, of heels.

    On night this Hotel also had reception for something, what it was for I don’t know, but judging by the number of Bentleys and Roll Royces their attendees arrived in, I think it was a reception for SIGNFICANT (5 figure or more) donors to some charity. They were dressed up to the nines. Very few women had flats, and only a few had kitten stilettos. Most wore 4+ inch heels, 80% or more stilettos. So, I saw HUNDREDS of high heels during in a short period of time.

    And now for a laugh.  I had to wait for the rest of my contingent to come down so we could go to dinner. I was sitting there by the elevators (their event was on the second floor) with other representatives waiting for the rest of their groups. One of the women I was sitting with remarked “ýou can almost hear that woman say ‘OW’ ‘OW’ ‘OW’ ” … as she walked by.

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  6. I had an encounter with a woman in combat boots this week. I've known her for 15 -20 years and she is also married a collegue who was also a fellow grad student with me back in the early 80's. (I must be old!) Last year on a raining day she asked me 'if I got the memo not to wear suede in the rain?'  -  I was wearing faux suede knee highs at the time, so no problem.

    Anyway, we both are on a governing body and at our bi-montly meeting last week. We sat next to each other, I looked down and saw she had very large shoes one, combat boots.

    I said "those shoes are huge", and we compared our shoes side to side, her's were 4 cm longer. But she wears a size 8 1/2 while I wear a size 10; that 4 inch heel sure makes a difference.

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  7. Let me first warn @mlroseplant that the following pictures may upset your stomach.

    I am going to retire these old slides (home only use). Breaking in the replacement pair now.  

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    I was in the new slides yesterday in the post office parking lot when this woman drove up and said something about liking my heels. She then drove over and parked her car so that her window was next to my window.

    Her: Those shoes must hurt,

    ME: I only buy shoes that don't hurt. 4-inch heels helps with hip pain. Then there are my knee-high stiletos I love wearing.  You know why?

    Her: NO, why?

    ME: To mess with people's minds.

    After she left to go in the post office, I could see the other woman in the car smiling (laughing) and I asked her "Do you think I messed with her mind?"

    "YES"

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  8. 13 hours ago, Chorlini said:

    I don't know where you live, in my neck of the woods, a Dutch university city so TONS of young women, NOTHING! 2" chunky at the most. These are the women who will never pick up heels as they never learned to walk in them. And when I do see a woman in heels she is almost always way over 40.

    I was down in Australia most of the time. I also work at an university and see a few women in 3+ inch heels. I have been told that I make them want to up their game, especially when I wear my stilettoes.

  9. I thought of this topic this weekend. I wore heels almost for over 45 hours straight. The only time they came off was during airport security screening. 

    One guy behind me  at one location was going to rase me about the booties, but I just took my booties out of bin, sllide them on and zipped them up. All he do was say, "boy those are easy to put on."

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  10. Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Ill-fitting become extrict. Some die off (worn out), then fail to exist in the wild (no longer made). Some don't hold up and vanish (in the bin).

    But the most important thing now Is to purchase classics. Invest (because it is truly and investment) in high quality, well fitting shoes, and take care of them

  11. On 9/30/2023 at 10:16 AM, Chorlini said:

    Even in the 70's women still wore heels. Just chunky platform ones. Now they have all but disappeared. I don't buy into the cyclical thing. We have generations of women now who never wore heels and they are NEVER going to wear heels. If you are not used to wearing them they will hurt you every time you them and as a result you will want to wear them even less. It is over. On the rare occasion I see a woman in heels it's almost 99% of the time a woman in her 40's or older. And lets be realistic about it, women wearing heels is a fairly recent thing. Before WW2 it was rare to see a woman in heels, it only gained mass support in the 50's and 60's, with increased wealth and prosperity for the lower and middle classes on the one hand, and the advent of the stiletto heel on the other. Overall, it was only a few generations of women that wore heels and I reckon they will be relegated to the same niche fetish community as was the corset. And the corset was around for a much longer time. I hear no one speaking of some cycle whereby corsets will make a comeback. High heels everywhere was a phase, it happened, and now we are in the dying days of that phase.

    I saw many under 40 women in 3+ inch heels, one in at least 5 inches in the last 10 days.

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  12. On 9/29/2023 at 2:33 AM, mlroseplant said:

    I imagine the running shoes are for a Fred Flintstone type situation. More surface to surface contact.

    I am thinking we won't hear from Cali for at least a couple of days. He's bound to be completely fried from sitting in a metal tube for 16 hours or so, traveling to Oz. I know I would be.

    Oh if was just 16 hours. Just spent over 40 hours straight on planes and in airports.

    Can you say cancellations and delays.  VERY LONG delays.

    On 9/28/2023 at 2:41 PM, Puffer said:

    If the car was still moving when you alighted, I imagine your older shoes did have to brake.   Have the running shoes got brakes too - 'brake shoes'?   

    I imagine some of our 'English" English speaker might call them trainers.

    Or even call @mlroseplant a sparky.

    On 10/4/2023 at 2:57 AM, mlroseplant said:

    2) I got a comment from a man yesterday in the grocery store, and a very public one at that. I had to stop by very quickly and get three items because I had failed to meal plan properly earlier this week. It just so happened that I stopped by on my way home from mowing one of our customers' lawns, so I was in my grubbies. One of the male managers at the grocery store shouted out, "WHERE are your SHOES?" It took me a second or two to figure out who said it, and what the heck it was all about, and then I realized I was in my working clothes. I said, "Well I just got done mowing, and even I don't do that in high heels."

    You should have told him they didn't pay for aerating.

    PS...I'm back.

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