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Balanced, which begins with style.

Just recently started seeing a gal who sometimes wears "heels." They'e low affairs, but she looks well enough for me!

Mostly going out to the movies as in I'd just like to be me! I've found in restaurants, people stare to no end at my wearing even the most innocuous heels. In movie theaters, they just don't care, except while waiting in line for tickets. Even at an LGTB bar in these parts, people stare! I feel like saying, "WHAT?!!!" to them. I feel like things have gotten worse over the last few years. Well, that's my trigger for blowing up. As for my trigger in wearing heels, it's always come naturally, so any time I was in front of a pair that would fit, I'd try them on.

Prior to out-growing the heels of my neighbors and my mother, I often wore the heels of my mother, aunt or neighbor.

You are who you are. Be that person!

"I wear heels all the time, but prefer to be descrete about it." I'd love to say that, but I'm just one level away. Too many factors.

I'll do my best. It's a bit more difficult for me to get to NY than Vegas.

Oh, wow! This sounds like it was a lot of fun! If this was the second one, will there be a third? Flights to Vegas are usually around $100. I can swing that for a weekend.

Whether they're made for a woman or a man is immaterial. What makes them "men's heels" is if I can get away with wearing them around town without passersby looking at me as if I were CD.

I'd much rather buy them in stores where I can try them on. Fat chance, though, as stores don't carry my size. Online.

I've received deliveries in heels. Sometimes in a skirt.

Lol, no, I've never worn heels while getting a haircut. Last haircut I had was 2-1/2 years ago.

I've varied between Sigourney Weaver and John Goodman.

I'm backing on down to a 3" heel. I've done 5", but my bones can't take it anymore.

My second biggest thrill was trying on a pair of mom's shoes after a two-year hiaitus (hormones, probably) to find they fit perfectly! I beat my brother home from school by 45 minutes that year (he was in HS, I was in JH), and I darn near wore them out!

Why is it some folks feel they need to brag about being able or desiring to walk in higher heels than anyone else as if it were some sort of IQ test? Give it a rest. Heels are heels. Heights are up to the individual.

Too close-minded to bother, unless I'd care to hit it with a logic bomb. Something along the lines of: Ooh! Gross! Yuck! Eww!" and dozens of other utterly mindless, illogical reactions later, a few individuals on this forum began realizing that fashion is all about change, and that means pushing the status quo, rather than defending it. For those individuals..." Might work.

The hypocrisy from those sort of women is nothing short of staggering.

I agree, and would add that if so much of who they are as people is wrapped up in the thinness of a fashion, perhaps they would benefit from having to find something else to which they can attach their ego.

No offence, but Skirts/kilts/heels commands a certain amount of smartness, tidyness, "Well kept" if you like, all of which, your upper half is screaming the opposite...

It's only a dichotomy if your upper half is screaming "male" while your lower half is screaming "female." One look at my hairy, muscular legs beneath a kilt or kilt-like skirt usually belays that impression, and if I were to wear a pair fairly blocky mid-heel boots I've had for years, at the very worst someone might say, "Oh, a goth."

On the other hand, those with slight upper builds can easily get away with wearing the usual skirt/heels combo. In the same light, women with chunky/stocky/muscular builds cannot pull off pencil skirts.

You're right about the importance of being "well kept" which to me means both neat and coordinated, not just in colors, but between self and the style, as well.

I'm a C (narrow) in men's, as well as a narrow in women's. However, since I usually like wearing normal cotton socks with boots, B-width boots suit me fine. I'd love to find 13N sandals, but no dice so far!

I really enjoy wearing woman's sandals around the house, though I'm partial to more natural-looking sandals. Usually leather.

I found more interesting things than the first wikipedia article on high heeled footwear by a more narrow search on the theme of baroque fashion in the beginning of the 17eme century (1600s).

A lot of sites are proposing pictures of high heeled men, a few are listed in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1600%E2%80%931650_in_fashion

http://www.cwu.edu/~robinsos/ppages/resources/Costume_History/cavalier.htm

http://www.marquise.de/en/1600/pics/1600b.shtml

At this time, men did not have to think of what outfit to wear with the heeled shoes, the shoes exactly matched the outfits !!

Regards

Great links, thanks! I few years back I tussled with a real jerk (and moron) of a straight-laced, uptight, ultra-conservative Wiki mod who repeatedly trashed any and all updates to several sections of Wikipedia. The updates were from valid sources, complete with pictures, but he was attempting to re-mold Wikipedia's version of the world in his image, so he abused his powers left and right to do so.

I really like Wikipedia when the mods don't abuse their powers. (sigh) I suppose we have the same problem with politics in general, though.

Can you give an example of such a heel that passes well as male footwear?

I have three pair of women's heels that have passed muster as male footwear by my colleagues. All three, however, have full-block heels.

I've a pair of cuban heels which are men's shoes, but because of the narrower heel, sometimes generates jibes that I'm wearing a lady's shoe.

A pair of 5-1/2" stilettos. Not very practical around the house, but it's sometimes fun.

Thank you for sharing the article. I wish just one men's shoes shoemaker would create and marker at least one pair of men's shoes with a higher heel, a little more feminine, maybe different color or material, and just see if it takes off? This is what happened back in the 70's prior to the "disco era" and platform shoes. Time will tell.

I think they're trying. The problem is, instead of just doing it, they're using the runways as weatherbells, and as you know, the fashion industry loves to pride itself on embracing change while ridiculing real change left and right.