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Hmm, On Friday (it is Sunday evening now) I spotted that one of the women's magazines on the rack in Sainsburys had a front cover with something like 100 pairs of shoes under £100 reviewed inside printed on it. Might be worth a look too.

It hasn't been updated for several years now. Shame. I haven't found anything remotely similar since then.

>> I DID type-in the correct URL including the little underline in the mid-way gap between the letters, but the Megaforums system automatically put a continuous red underline beneath all of my quoted URLs, thereby obscuring the intended short one. <<

That wasn't the problem. The underscore is in both addresses. The problem was actually (a vs. e):

http://womanshoesplus.com/Detail_Page/Vivian.html vs:

http://womenshoesplus.com/Detail_Page/Vivian.html

This link to faithf (remove the f and * both):

http://www.faithf.co.uk/catalogue/style.asp?range=7&*style=407500&CurlPage=1 should be:

http://www.faith.co.uk/catalogue/style.asp?range=7&style=407500&CurlPage=1 instead.

Wow, very nice.

Are those the same expensive Italian shoes with little padlocks that Victoria Beckham wore a few months ago?

Yeah, someone posted an image from that in this other thread: http://www.hhplace.org/hhboard/viewtopic.php?t=1985 entitled Is this the new Paris Style? (with pic).

Don't ya just hate it when someone is already posting about it while you're still reading it?

Have you got a location for Cover Girl, rather than a P.O. Box number?

>> IN1 8FE << That's an Inverness post code.

>> B7 8LT << That's a Birmingham postcode.

Why not go for a vist to London? It doesn't have to be expensive. You could probably do a one-day return by coach for well under GBP 20.00 or so.

In Islington there is the The Little Shoe Box and Leatherworks as well as Showgirls. Not far away is Cover Girl too, though I have never managed to find their place. There are 20 other places to visit, including Camden High Street and the Stables Market too.

Try before you buy is usually a whole lot better than ordering over the net.

Darn, I was busy at the beginning of the month, and seem to have missed all the sales now.

I haven't seen anything over much over about 4 inches in either River Island or Barratts for a while now.

At the moment, Barratts have some lovely closed pointy-toe shoes, in either black or red, with a thin back-strap, and a multi-strap (many thin straps) ankle cuff with buckles. Heel just over 4 inches (at UK size 7) by the look of it. Nice!

Continued in: http://www.hhplace.org/hhboard/viewtopic.php?t=1808 then

I saw several newspaper reports about that, and these are mentioned many times across the internet in reports. I have never managed to find an image of these anywhere, which I find most odd. Anyone else had any luck?

Hmm. Not the best images I have seen of her. She can look quite classy when she wants to, but I do like the shoes. They look to be at least 5 inches high. Anyone got any idea of the make and style of them? They are designer, for sure, given the triangular metallic area on the underside of the sole, at the toe end. I'd say they look about UK size 7, (maybe size 8 even) or so, too. But then, shes a tall girl. .

How about this list of TV shows and films with Go-Go boots in them:

http://host65.ipowerweb.com/~particun/ggb-production/tv.php3

Its the YSL logo that adds the extra zero on the end of the price.

Good post Heelfan. Covered just about everything that I would have said.

One more question. What sort of heels are you looking for?

There are obviously court shoes (pumps), and then with a strap over the foot there are the Mary Janes styles.

There are various sandals, with open or closed toes, or strappy toes. Some shoes (both courts or sandals) can have an ankle strap, and there are d'Orsay styles with a court-like toe, a back piece to the rear of the foot and an ankle strap. These are really nice. There are sling-backs of various types, and there are slip-on mules. Finally there are many types of boots from ankle length, calf length, knee length, and thigh boots.

When done with that decision, do you want a stiletto heel, a block heel, or a wedge heel; Oh, and was that with, or without, a platform ??

Just remembered one more thing... how high do you want the heel?

Anything from 0 to 9 inches is possible without a platform. For a first time wearer try something about, or just under, 4 inches; or just over if feeling adventurous. Once you like it, you'll want to go for 5 inch or more, but that takes practice.

Have a look in Faith, United Footwear, and TK Maxx too, if you can.

Happy shopping!

>> I'd have more posts if I took part in the Non-heel stuff(the story, word association, etc) <<

Yeah, reckon I would have twice what I have now if I visited those threads. However, posting in about 10 different fora on diverse topics most days, means I have very limited time to spend on each, otherwise I would be online 24/7.

Hmmm. Did my shoes change at 400 posts? I didn't see. Been away for a couple of weeks. Forgot what I had before.

38C = 100.5F 40C is about 105F Far too hot.

They look like the toe box collapses slightly as well, and thereby gets a nasty crease across it. It doesn't look right. Ah, wait a minute. Maybe (for the shoes in the top two rows only) those aren't actually photographs but simply some images produced by an art package on a computer. They look too alike in the patterning on each shoe, etc.

>> Mars will rise in the east at 10 p.m. and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m. <<

Make that the zenith instead, and it'll read right. Looked out last night, and it is really easy to find. Just look South-East around midnight.

A number of places in Britain look to be having observing sessions at the end of August; in National Astronomy Week. Darn, there is a National Something-or-other Week every week it seems.

I saw that Faith and New Look, among others, already started stocking some hybrid shoes, including some that remind me of football or bowling shoes with stiletto heels. I don't like them all that much.

I like the River Island boots, but I think they might be a bit too fragile somehow.

I see that they have some 4.5 inch shoes in stock now too. They don't always go so high.

The Swedish boots remind me a little of some of those from Bronx.

>> Julietta, all I see are red X's :evil <<

Umm, I think all that was meant was that the user was not seeing the images, just the little box with a red X in it that the Infernal Exploiter throws up when it can't be bothered to load the images in a web page.

Heh, those Oxfords are quite nice. A few people do still sell them. I'll probably be shot if I mention Leatherworks, in Islington, or The Little Shoe Box just down the road from them, again.

>> black duck tape <<

Hope the duck didn't mind. I use duct tape. :argue:

For posting images, there should not be any spaces in the code you put in the forum message.

From the posted URL, it looks like the shoes came from: http://www.silhouette.nl/

I am surprised at the lack of size 41 shoes in your area. Many UK stores go from size 36 to 42 these days; with a select few going a little more one way or the other.