micha

I'v been looking for those in a UK size 10 for ages.

I canne find em

You are right. They were a hip style at the beginning of the new millenium. The original design was from Manolo Blahnik and they became a fashion runner when Jennifer Lopez was spotted with these boots. They were sold in boutiques and in the net for more than 400 US dollars. Today they are offered as a perfect copy in clearance sales for 29,99 euros. But never in a bigger size than US 10

My pink ones are from Anne Michelle. I bought them two years ago from german Ebay in the very rare US size 11. Must be something like UK 9 rsp. a small EU 43. They are a little bit too narrow for my feet but for 40 euros they were a must for my high heels collection

As for my modified Essences, they're simmilar too . They're here: http://elegant.fotosik.pl/albumy/219242.html - along with my oxfords.

Me wearing them:

I know that my hair was in terrible state, and the glasses were ugly as hell . Now, I've got better ones and I had a haircut recently

Don't care for your hairs, in my opinion they are quite nice. I like your outfit!

Like you I'm not a fan of glasses. But I know that I am short sighted - it's time for me to wear spectacles at least during car driving. I have no better idea than your style. Do you know a better one?

But I'm much more interested in your shoe modifications, sometimes I'm doing also "home craftwork"

We will have to play Germany Micha.

I'm pretty sure you have a suitable audience outfit:beers:

Jon

Since our whole team is suffering from calf strains and foot injuries we will play with this reliable team from 1954. Be prepared!

Trainer Loew was endless furious about the secrete midnight heeling tours of our boys. As punishment he has ordered for the next weeks a special training on stiletto pumps.

During tv transmissions of sport events I'm wearing always my good old chucks

But in pink. This is a design study for the US soccer team. But with white canvas or yellow canvas combined with black rubber soles they are also suitable for our both national teams. What says David Beckham? Or is he lying at the moment also with a strain in a hospital?

micha (*the highest heels will win*)

PS these wonderful football boots are offering nearly endless possibilities for an elegant foul playing!

Antonio M. G. from Hot Boots website [well, I know it's above all a gay site, but who cares?]:

Boots: A. F. Vandeborst, Italy, 3" heels. After a short googling, I got a clue that there may be a mistake: the designer could be A. F. Vandevorst, and his site: http://www.afvandevorst.be . Visit the "Fetish" section for women. Frankly, I don't know why it was called "Fetish" as all shoes are vanilla to me, and yeah- they're mostly very stylish. Men's shoes aren't worth paying a visit IMHO- regular boring vanilla stuff. [Oh, and what are bras doing in the men's Nightfall section? ]

These pics are very important to me, because they made me discover the whole "men in high heels" movement and seek lots of info about it. Who knows if I'd find HHMP, and of course get into heels later, if I didn't look at these photos? Very convincing look IMO.

Hi Elegant,

I have a pair of similar boots. They are slip on boots from Evans/Essence with slightly higher heels. I got them from UK-Ebay in size 9. I had never thought that an UK 9 could match to my EU 44/45 size. The truth: they are even a little bit too wide for me.

In my opinion NEXT has the better styles. But it doesnt help if the size is wrong!

Hi NewfieGuy, completely contrary to you I'm a tall long legged 1.90 m guy with a leptosome posture. My problem are my long legs and your problem are your short legs. At least you are the better candidate for wearing high heels, they are nearly a must for you But in my opinion you shouldn't wear such long shirts. They are ruining all the benefits of your heels. In your place I would wear short and narrow shirts and long flared jeans. With me it's quite opposite: I should wear short skinny jeans (what I'm doing with pleasure) and long shirts (what I'm not doing because of my beloved navel piercing *g*) Sometimes I'm pondering if I don't appear on high heels to others on the street as a giant. Especially when I'm meeting small girls with flip-flops. At least I'm not responsible for their dull footwear ...

Jonathan Rhys- Meyers, found at http://fans.papervixen.net/glamboi/ galleries. Drop dead gorgeous, I think!

Yep! You both are very slim. Apart from the hair colour and the platform shoes he could be you or kneehighs But he has earned a slightly better nourishing (*g*)

I played a gig last night with nearly this outfit.

Jon

Wow, what a funny stage outfit

No he's just tall for his age Micha.

Are you sure you're only 117? You must have had a hard life that's all I can say!

You are right. 1848, persecuted by the prussian troops as democrat and simultaneously by the revolutionary movement because of my love for Louis XIV shoes, was really a hard year!

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:LouisXIV.jpg

I have always been a fan of very cute/feminine/girly styles of high heels. I'd love to be able to wear them out all the time under my regular jeans. Although I am very hesitant to be seen in public wearing obviously girly shoes, I am also reluctant to consider wearing more masculine, less obvious, women's styles (just for the sake of wearing high heels) too - they're just not the styles I want to wear.

I was wondering how many of you other guys wear girly styles (courts/pumps/mules/strappy sandals/etc.) out in public?

Do you wear them often?

What styles do you wear? (any pictures would be good)

Do you wear them with your regular clothes?

Do you get many adverse reactions?

That's an interesting question! Here my answer:

Do you wear them often?

No, but I do it sometimes. Never ashamed late in the night on a quiet parking site of the autobahn, always in the city

What styles do you wear?

Pointy knee high boots with heels between 3.5 '' and 4.5''. But in summer also sandalettes. Mostly under jeans. On courageous days with boots over skinny jeans and on extremely courageous days (*g*) with a short jeans skirt, pantyhoses and a narrow top shirt

Do you wear them with your regular clothes?

Yes - but my regular clothes are often "girls jeans". For example flared jeans from Miss Sixty or drain pipe jeans. I'm wearing these styles also in regular work life and I'm sure that the most people have never realized that I'm wearing womens jeans!

Do you get many adverse reactions?

Not really, but definitely more on thin heels than with block heels (i.e. high heeled cowboy boots). It's always again the same old story. Some macho immigrants have simply a problem with gays rsp. guys on high heels (every guy on high heels MUST be gay and gays are ILL)

Well according to his profile, kneehighs is only 7!

Indeed. I'm absolutely sure that he's at least 17 years old. Only granny micha is a 115 years old fossile. If I were only 100 years younger

Major update! This was nights ago...

There was a party next door, and my family, including lil sis, cousin, and aunt, went along for the fun. I, however, stayed back and had a good dinner: my mom's hamburger! :0 I didn't think she would eat it immediately after. Plus, I expected the party to have food already there, but apparently, she didn't decide to take any home. One reason would be that she was drunk :-l. Yeah, she was drunk, and she admitted it!

But anyhow, she came back to the house for her burger, and voila! It's gone, thanks to me. Also thanks to me, 'The Talk' happened again, and this was the longest, offensive talk ever. To top it off, she was drunk :-L.

Lemme skip all the way over to the part she killed me at: the heels! Yep, she brought up that dreadful subject again (dreadful when she talks about 'em), and brought out all the negativity she could in it. I personally really took it hard, since she knows how much I loove heels. So yeah, I'm beginning to think I should have never told her about this 'craving' I would call it. She says she got enough crap in her life than to worry about her son liking and wearing high heels. She also brought up other stuff that doesn't seem true at all. Does anyone know of a male that's been killed for wearing high heels?!?! Anyone???

I'm happy that nowadays even teenboys have the courage to wear their own high heels style. In my youth that was a hard stuff. At your age of 16 I grabbed secretely the boots of my sister for evening tours in my hometown. I felt sometimes as being degenerate. At that time relicts of our nazi history were still present in my own brain. A boy who likes wearing high heels must be ill!

I'm after 30 years of madness still alive. My whole family knows about it. It seems that the expectation of life isn't so bad for us

As far as I know these are not available to buy at the moment

And that's good so. Either I like rsp. dare wearing high heels or I do not. All this nonsense of collapsable heels or hidden heels in flat boots is IMHO a product of the imagination of male cowards or simply a marketing gag.

I know! It's so funny to catch the staff unawares. I can always tell when the Oxford St stores have new staff because they are always a little bit shocked when I walk in let alone try on a pair of stilettos.

Tara,

I'm convinced that the time will come when every female shoe seller in the Oxford Street is knowing you

But buying via Ebay is sometimes also amusing. One of my last auctions was on Essence boots from UK Ebay. A girl from London was offering them. I asked her if UK size 9 is a true size or bigger as typical for Essence. She answered that they should be wide enough for an EU size 44. After having won the auction the parcel arrived within few days. Inside a handwritten small notice "Happy heeling in Frankfurt!"

She has sent the parcel to a "Michael". Wasn't that really nice?!

.... it would appear that taller block heels and rounded toes are making a return much like the early 90's, stilletos are slowly getting thicker and soles are getting raised on small platforms.

Hi Dougal, in my opinion thin stiletto heels are always the sexiest style but not the first choice for a guy on the street. I just found these boots from the new Buffalo winter collection

http://www.buffalo-shop.de/buffalo/urwfilter/catalog/do/action/ShowProductDetail/productId/16949/index.html

They have slightly broader heels, rounded toe boxes and thin platform soles. In my experience thicker soles are very comfortable for daily wearing on the street. I need to visit a Goertz shoe shop. They are offering them in EU 42. Buffalos in big sizes are often a true 43. Narrow but sufficient for me - I have to check it out:w00t2:

I'm open for nearly every fashion style. I love the actual boots fashion over skinny jeans (vintage revival from the 80ies!?) just as the pointy stiletto boots under long flared jeans. But never UGG's, these ugly boots with a quadratic toe box and a mid seam or flip-flops. Every flat ballerina appears to me much more elegant!

Thanks guys. I'll try to find accom in Mcr as soon as poss and get out.

Hopefully will get out before Feb in London

Teanna, where's the problem? You need not to wear the highest heels in a small town. Why don't you start your outings with shy heights? I'm wearing alldays 2.5 or 3'' cowboy boots on the street. I have never earned any comment in my quarter with this style. I could pull them on in the deepest countryside and again I'm sure to get no comment. May be that some people are thinking "Is the crazy fashion from the 70ies coming back?"

When spending last summer my holidays nearby the Bodensee I heard never any comment about my 4'' clogs. It was in Ueberlingen - a small town in a very conservative region of Germany. Later my friend and me visited the Rhine waterfall near by Schaffhausen. A lot of touristic hurly-burly! Nobody cared for my footwear - neither the Swiss nor the Germans tourists - I liked this normality!

The immigrants in my neighbourhood have certainly a problem with me when I'm wearing white overknees over tight jeans. Just as "Thighhighboots" has experienced. But I need not to wonder about it because I had planned it as provocation for their sacred macho view of life. I was endless furious about stubborn comments at the Frankfurt CSD. Directly below the convention in the B-level of the underground they felt again to be the macho kings with their ugly baggy pants Sometimes they need simply a provocation!

I'm convinced that the majority of the british or the german population is accepting rsp. tolerating guys on high heels. Some may estimate us for a little bit "gaga". But I can live comfortably with being a little bit "gaga"

micha (*to be gaga is a honour for me*)

I'm living in a grey zone between male and female sizes. My true size is an EU 44 or 45. Wide shoes from Evans in UK 9 (an official size 42/43) are really comfortable for me. My wedge boots from Evans/Essence shouldn't be wider. Size UK 10 would fit for me with inlay soles. But thats a true EU 45!

Usually my size is calculated in female US sizes as 12 or 13. I'm really glad to have ordered my white 5'' overknee boots in size US 14. The conversion tables claims that US 14 is at least EU 46. Completely nonsense - I had never such big feet.

They are produced in China. It seems to me that the chinese managers have still doubts about the foot size of the long noses and they can't really imagine that even male long noses are wearing high heels. But they are learning very fast. China is changeing rapidly. I have just found in "You Tube" one of the first gay chinese movies called "Bishonen"

The last pair that I bought from a department store (Sears) was a 3" pair of MUDD mules/slides. I did try them on. I recieved a few glances, but no strange looks or comments. I have no problem trying them on in a "self-service" shoe department, but do not have the nerve to go to a store where the clerk has to get the pair from the back room and watch you try them on. I have never seen a guy wear womens shoes, let alone buy them. Therefore, I still feel like an oddball when wearing or buying shoes in public.

My preferred method is to order them mailorder and then return them if I do not like the look or the fit.

In winter 2005/2006 I bought pink suede 3'' cowgirl boots in a Deichmann shoe shop. In Germany Deichmann is a low price shoe store like Sears or Zappos. My boots were declared as EU 42 but after trying them on with a pantyhose I was sure that they were at least a true 43. Just the right boots for a desperate big size wearer

The girl on my left had no problems with me. Sometimes she looked curious on my side and I looked friendly back. She has bought similar boots like me - but in brown leather. When a sales girl appeared who grabbed my boots for putting them back into the box, I said "Stop, these are my boots! I want to buy them". She grew on red like a tomato and she has deserved it!

hmm, I walk around in Frankfurt in heels, but I have never met anyone else - also not Micha. Seems we are not around enough.

Hi bootish,

I'm living in Frankfurt-Roedelheim, my quarter. Where do you live?

I'm wearing often high heels on the street. Are you interested in a common high heels tour at a saturday afternoon on the Zeil? We could take from each other nice photo shoots for the forum

Write me a forum PM or an Email if you are interested!

Nowadays it's for me a honour and an obligation to be the black sheep on the street

I've been trying to pull the heel tips off my g/f shoe to replace the tips, but I'm having a really difficult time. I got one tip off, with much effort, and the other I kinda mangled the metal pin, but it is still sticking out, albiet seemingly fragile.

I was wondering if there was a special tool out there that I could use to yank these things off, besides grippy pliers I tried twisting a bit to loosen it, but I don't think it was a good idea. How do shoe repairers do this?

Any help is much appreicated.

Thanks.

Neatshoes

Hi Neatshoes,

a question I'm pondering about since years! I'm changing usually my heel tips myself. Usually with a pipe wrench. Mostly this works quite well but sometimes the result is only a torn off plastic heel cap. I have no better idea than to pull the metal stud with brutal force out of the heel. To twist it back and forth - as Dr. Shoe proposed - could help. But if you are breaking the stud new heels are necessary. But this is another topic for us DIY home workers

But that's not the whole story. There is no reliable international standard for the width of the hole in the heel. Obviously there are different sizes. It could happen that you don't get the new tips into the heel because the hole is simply too narrow. I just ruined the heels of a pair because of using a hammer. The plastic heel was splitting up. I'm convinced that there are at least two different sizes for heel tips. A standard size and another size for thin stiletto heels. Who knows more details?

micha (*also interested in this problem*)

Its really great when you can share your love for shoes with the person you love.

I like the pic )

Highheeldude.....

I have just ordered the shoes in your avator.

I'm locking myself in and posting the keys to Micha.... should be fun for a few days

I promise to send your keys back immediately by registered letter. I don't want that you will die by hunger. I would loose a nice chess opponent from Red Hot Pawn. But I don't know how fast british mail or the german post is really Be prepared to do your daily purchases on stiletto heels or fill up your freezer! By the way: I have already done my daily purchases on 5'' thigh high boots under long hip jeans. I don't think that I am a coward.

i have finnaly accepted my HH obsession..

when i was a wee lad i used to wear em around the house..and of course..my parents thought it was all a phase...but..as i grew older it never went away...

i was scared that i was different or weird and nobody else was like that..

but after doing research..i found there are many like me..and so the other day..(its a story)

me and my gf were in payless..and i wondered off to some section looking at all the heels..(nobody was around me)//and i saw a really..weird that i say this..but CUTE pair..

i had to try em on..(keep in mind i hadent done this since i was little) so i thought of course..they woudnt fit or something..but to my suprise..they were size 12..i tried em..and they fit! i got a little jumpy and started turning red..so i ran to my gf to tell her of my news..at first she laughed..but we talked and shes is ok with this..matter in fact i give her advice on buying heels...

so there it was..starting all over again..i want to buy my first pair..but still skeptical..of criticism and such..but it doesnt really bother me..althow the store girls were giving me weird looks..

but hey! there just shoes..we should be able to wear em too!!

there comfortable anyways...

but thats my story..this is my second post..i hope to find a home in this community..that i can share other stories or read others..like i have already and found that i am real comfortable with this place!!

Exactly - you have just found your forum! I would have been glad in the 70ies to have already had the internet and such nice discussion forums. I only dared outings on platform boots or secrete late night excursions. Always quite alone. At that time I was really convinced that I'm a little bit gaga ... luckily times have changed!

A marriage of a couple with the same court shoes? That's great! micha (*my congratulations*)

Neither nor - hence no vote.

I used to look in the mirror and think "nah, this looks to weird for a guy", but I rarely do that anymore, so the question is: Are my style getting better or am I just getting used to seeing men in heels ? I know that my current size 43 and 44 looks a lot better than cramming my feet into size 42's and that might make a difference.

On other hand if it IS a case of getting use to men in heels, than it should be possible to anyone else too ?

I totally get why women don't like it. Men weren't crazy about women in pants either back in the 50's. I just don't get why that don't accept it. I certainly don't like all the clothes women wear, but I don't object to them wearing it. I think Crocs look ridiculous, but I don't laugh out loud at the people wearing them.

Hi Pumps,

I'm conscious that I'm wearing "womens" shoes on the street. In my opinion my actual style on the street (4'' cowgirl boots) is a nice male footwear but I'm also aware that many people think otherwise.

There isn't anymore the same anger as some years ago when I was pondering "with these heels you will be guaranteed slaughtered on the street...". Today I'm pulling on my boots without any further thoughts and go out for doing my daily purchases. It has become totally normal for me. The young turkish guys have become accustomed to their "pansy guy" and I have switched vice versa one gear back. The last bad comment is almost one year ago. I don't count the less or more ironical comment "Nice shoes!" when I was wearing white wedge sandalettes last summer on the street.

Sometimes my most beloved pansy haters are getting my personal pinpricks: me with overknees over skinny drainpipe jeans walking through little Istanbul. They are hungry for such performances - otherwise life would be simply too dull. That's much better than a talkshow in commercial TV

But I never felt to be ridiculous.