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In the UK, quite a lot of them seem to end up at a discount clothes and shoes chain called TK Maxx - quite a bit of their stuff has a "past season" sticker on it.

I expect that a lot of it is re-exported to some less wealthy nation and sold, at not much more than than cost, to the natives.

A 7.5 inch heel with a 4 inch platform only has a 3.5 heel-lift, and should be easy to walk in (I didn't say easy to balance on though!).

A 7.5 inch heel with no platform would be a very big challenge for anyone to stand or walk in. They would need big feet (7.5 inch heel for a size 3 or 4 would have to be a ballet boot style, only larger sizes above about 8 or 9 could do that heel height in a conventionally soled shoe with no platform), and would need very flexible ankles too.

You what? Sacha gone from Kensington High Street? You're joking? Damn. I was going to go in their next month sometime. It was the one that was just by the flower sellers, and a hundred yards from Pizza Hut. Nice little store, but I noticed their range tail off in the last year or so though.

Any other clues? Like, are they leather or PU? Is the sizing marked in US, UK, or Eur sizes? Anything on the sole at all, like size, or "made in ..."? Sometimes shoes are made by one company for many others... Over here Dorothy Perkins is made by Barratts. Spot On, and Zone, and several others all come from the same place as each other; and so on.

The traditional shoe shop usually had a far wider range, both in style and size, than the little-department in the corner of a bigger store. I was gutted, too, when Barratts closed down on Kensington High Street. Luckily though, there is still Sacha, Dune, 9 West, and a few others there.

Round here there used to be loads of shoe shops but one by one they have gradually (almost) disappeared. In one high street, Truform was replaced by FHW which after several years, eventually closed. Up the road, a very old store (FHW?) became a self-serve Shoe Express and that went the same way. Timpsons became Shoe Zone, now selling mainly cheapo stuff. A Barratts opened, and a year later, closed down. Several others, names long forgotten, have also disappeared in the last decade. Very few shoe-only stores to be seen now. We are left with a Stead and Simpson, a Shoe Fayre (cheapo stuff again), and an out-of-town Brantano of interest. There is a very old Clarks store, and a few in-store departments in larger stores (M&S, Asda, New Look, River Island, Etam, Mk One, BHS, Peacocks, Next, large department stores, etc). I see that Treds have opened though. In another local town, both branches of Saxone disappeared a decade ago, or more. Some time later Ravel closed down (I loved their stuff, but it was a bit pricy). Last year Dolcis disappeared, and a few months back the Stead and Simpson store also went. Several other favourites are also long gone. What happened to "Bay Trading Co" too, they've also gone. There is still a Faith, and a Barratts, and Office have opened (sadly no Schuh yet). The only other choices are the usual Next, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins, New Look, TK Maxx, Asda, River Island, BHS, MK One, Peacocks, Russell and Bromley (if you're super rich), and a few department stores. The "shoe shop" as a shop seems to be gradually disappearing, to be replaced by a small shoe department in a much larger store. So too, the move from "service" to "self-service". Is this much the same over the whole of the UK, or does your High Street still have a good selection of "shoe shops" selling, well, umm, just "shoes"?

On the H&M website is an even better picture. The girl next to Lagerfeld has at least 5 inch heel ankle boots on. Very nice!

The red sandals with chains and back-zip are very naughty!

I saw some like that in TK Maxx earlier in the year too.

The ballet heels shots of Nigella Lawson were in the Mail on Sunday on October 3rd, the day before they appeared in the Mirror and elsewhere.

There was one image on Page 3 of the Mail on Sunday newspaper which I saw and which is the same as posted earlier in this thread.

The main multi-image photoshoot was printed in colour in the accompanying You magazine which I never got to see. Darn!!

In Borders, and elsewhere at the moment, there is also a magazine called Shoo all about, umm, well whadayah think its all about?? (designer shoes mostly, with some nice images). Additionally, the current "W" magazine has an odd fashion photoshoot with both guys and girls in stiletto shoes too.

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Hmm, I'll bet that is very hot in more ways than one!

I have seen stuff up to UK size 10 in charity shops, but mostly from size 4 to size 7 though.

Just before Christmas, lots of people are buying stuff for New Year fancy dress parties too.

Wow, superb images yet again. I would love to try some heels that high (maybe indoors first though!).

>> I have another set of pics where I'm washing my Mustang in my 6" black patent pumps and cut-offs, but you don't want to see that. <<

No. We don't want to see that; .... do we?

Of course we want to see it !!!

Pull that pin out, very carefully. New heel tips come with the pin included. That is why it is important not to wear heel tips down too much otherwise you can't get the old pin out.

Needs to be earlier as that is exactly midnight in the UK, otherwise the visits either side of midnight will get spread over two dates.

There is no problem with having the same image even ten times on the same page, just as long as it is the exact same URL where it resides. If so, then the image is only fetched just the once by the web browser.

If the ten copies of image actually each have a separate and different URL then the image does have to be fetched ten times. That scenario should always be avoided.

You can find the URL of an image simply by right clicking it, and selecting the "copy image location" , or similar, option, and then pasting the data into a text editor, or new message.

For further information about image uploading and forum linking see these threads:

http://www.hhplace.org/hhboard/viewtopic.php?t=823

http://www.hhplace.org/hhboard/viewtopic.php?t=1564

http://www.hhplace.org/hhboard/viewtopic.php?t=1592

http://www.hhplace.org/hhboard/viewtopic.php?t=2213

http://www.hhplace.org/hhboard/viewtopic.php?t=2219

http://www.hhplace.org/hhboard/viewtopic.php?t=2329

http://www.hhplace.org/hhboard/viewtopic.php?t=2265

http://www.hhplace.org/hhboard/viewtopic.php?t=2354

Superb shoes. An unusual pattern/design. Not too high either. That toe is really pointy! Very nice; and just my size too!

Yet again, Liz Hurley never fails to impress.

Niice!!!

>> Now, here's this. I don't know if it fits the criteria for this thread. But I found these on eBay. Thought they were a little "off beat." <<

Christian Dior have been making really wierd shoes for the last couple of years now.

I'm not sure if they have lost the plot, or are several years ahead of everyone else (a la Vivienne Westwood in the 1980s).

>> Thank you Firefox and Bpalma for putting things back to the way they were <<

Things are not quite the same as they were originally.

Since the image server came online a year ago, any pictures uploaded there could be linked to from any website and displayed in that page.

The ban, 2 weeks ago, meant that the only place that links would work was this site and that links from all other sites were banned.

The new way is that there is a list of sites where linking is banned. Links from those sites will not work. However, links from any other site will work, but the owner has asked that people do not do this. The list of incoming links is being monitored, and so if any other sites link to the images they will be added to the list of banned sites, so that their link no longer works. This makes more work for the image server site owner, but makes things easier for your browser settings.

Superb images. I would love to try some of those too.

The thinnest heel ever made was a designer shoe with a heel as thin as the insert of a ballpoint pen. It never went on sale as it was so thin as to be lethal if you stepped on someone with it. I have never seen a picture of these shoes, even though they have been written about many times in the last few years.

Umm, I'm not familiar with any of this. Drop a link to what you are talking about. Yeah, tell us more.

Most wear block heels from 2 to 4 inches. Mostly ankle or mid-length boots. Black seems favourite. However, that does not stop the others from wearing higher stiletto heels, in courts or even thigh-length boots. There is some information in recent heelmeet threads as to what various people wore when last in London.