Skirted-UK

I'm still mourning the passing of HayWay Shoes!

I don't think that you will be lucky enough to find a woman that likes you wearing heels, the word tolerate comes to mind. Most women don't like wearing skirts and heels these days, they seem to see it as a sign of weakness, even women who do like wearing heels tend to feel out of place in a sea of jeans and trainers. Women like to look all the same these days. High heels and skirts are for special occassions these days, and they certainly don't want the men in their lives wearing them!

This is the article in full.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7225828.stm

High heels 'may improve sex life'

Wearing higher heels - although perhaps not stilettos - may improve your pelvic floor muscles and in doing so boost your sex life, a study suggests.

An Italian urologist and self-professed lover of the sexy shoe set out to prove that high heels were not as bad for women's health as some suggest.

The shoe has been linked to a range of problems - from corns to schizophrenia.

But in a letter to European Urology, Dr Maria Cerruto said her research showed it was time to stand up for the heel.

She said her study of 66 women under 50 found that those who held their foot at a 15 degree angle to the ground - the equivalent of a two inch heel - had as good posture as those who wore flat shoes, and crucially showed less electrical activity in their pelvic muscles.

This suggested the muscles were at an optimum position, which could well improve their strength and ability to contract.

The pelvic floor muscles are an essential component of the female body. As well as assisting sexual performance and satisfaction, they provide vital support to the pelvic organs, which include the bladder, bowels and uterus.

But they often weaken after pregnancy and childbirth, and as the woman gets older. There are exercises to strengthen them, but Dr Cerruto hopes her findings may eliminate the need for these.

"Women often have difficulty in carrying out the right exercises for the pelvic zone and wearing heels could be the solution," she said.

"Like many women, I like high-heeled shoes," she added. "It's good to know they have potential health benefits."

Gill Brook, a women's health physiotherapist in Bradford, stressed the findings did not suggest that stilettos were a good thing for those keen on improving their pelvic floor function.

"But for women who like a slightly higher heel, these are reassuring findings - although we haven't yet done away with the need for regular exercises to maintain what is such an important part of the female body."

Considering that most people on this forum are saying that the shoes are too pointy, I would have thought that there would only be a limited market for these shoes. For me the heel is the most striking feature of the shoe and I would think that they will need to branch out with shoes of different styles, but using that amazing heel. I do hope that Roger & Sarah are able to make a go of it and wish them well for the future.

I find them a bit too pointy for my taste, but I love the heel. If they made them in men's sizes I would buy a pair just to wear indoors

back from the dentist :-)

Love the dress!

No, women who's feet hurt when wearing heels does nothing for me, quiet the opposite in fact. When I was in my teens I chose my girlfriends for their preference for high heels and straight skirts. Unfortunately I usually found that these girls did not like wearing heels or tight skirts for very long and usually could not wait to get out of them when they got home. I remember going to a dance with a girl once and we missed the last bus home. As we walked home, she was walking bare feet, carrying her sling-backs with her skirt hitched up above her knees. It was so embarrassing. No, I like to see women wearing heels, its a definite turn off when you find that they can't wear them because their feet hurt and they have to keep taken them off.

About 15 pairs, but don't ask me how many straight black skirts I own!

AHH! Here we go again, we would like to wear some women's garments, but the women in our lives don't like it. Listen guys trousers and jeans are traditionally MALE garments! I am old enough to remember the time when you never saw a woman in jeans or trousers. We never made a fuss when the started wearing OUR clothes! The trouble with men is that they let women dictate to them what they should or should not be wearing, try telling the woman in your life that she should not wear trousers or jeans and see what reaction you get! This summer I have on two occasions worn a woman's kilt for walking on the Moors why, because a kilt is a male garment and I don't see why I should pay £300 for a kilt when I can get one for £30. Wearing it Commando was much cooler that shorts or jeans. ( which are now fast becoming the standard woman's garment! ) A couple of years ago I heard that the men in a Scottish pipe band were up in arms because the women in the band wanted to wear kilts, in other words they were feminising men's kilts. Looking on a kilt makers website recently I see that they now make a woman's kilted skirt that fastens on the right-hand side like a man's kilt. What I am trying to say here is that women have no qualms about wearing men's clothes, but they don't like it when we start wearing their stuff, anything that we wear has to be specially made for men. Its time we told them were to get off! End of rant!

Its fortunate for us that few women realise how powerful they are in a pair of 4" stiletto heel black patent pumps and a straight black skirt. WOW!

Wow, the HH Place Diva is back! Please don't disappear for another 2 years, the place is not the same without you. Welcome back Laurie!

I have two pairs of Pleasers pumps, one in Black patent and the other in black matt. JeffB put me on to them a couple of years ago. The most comfortable 4" stilettos I own. Never wear them out in case I ruin them. Thanks Jeff!

An intersting artical on the pros and cons of wearing high heels.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/womenfamily.html?in_article_id=173473&in_page_id=1799

I just checked and Criss' Atrun is still active. I don't know if toms' cafe is stilaround.

Hi Crotchboots,

You are right about Chris' Atrium, I had an old URL in my 'Favourites'

But Tom's Cafe,

http://www.tomscafe.org/forums/

seems to be locked for no reason!

Does anyone know what's happened to Tom's Cafe? Not been there for a while, but it now seems to be close with no new post for over a year! Chris' Atrium also seems to have disappered. I know skirts are going out of fashion for women, but men as well?!

There is a lot of tall young women around these days, but they tend to dress like men so not to look out of place.

Have you all seen the pics in the daily mail?

Here is one

Look a little photoshopped though?

I always thought that she had great legs, not so sure now!

I have always found that its best not to tell women these things, especially after you have only known them for two weeks! 90% of women are not going to understand and think that you are weird. If you had left it you would have properly found that you would have split up for another reason in a couple of months anyway. If there is one thing that women do well its talk, now she is likely to tell her mates about this weird guy she met who like's wearing corsets, then her mates will tell their mates and before you know it, it will be all around town! Always wait until you know a women really well and the relationship is serious before you decide tell her stuff like this.

I was just going to the hairdressers in my beige pumps and the other day I was out photographing in my 4" ankleboots. Both times people (girls) were laughing pretty obviously and that made me think. Are we so caught up in this heel wearing that we can't see what others see ? I don't think either outfit was that big a deal, but maybe I'm just so used to see it, that I don't see that it looks ridiculous and maybe I would laugh if I saw myself (Actually I wouldn't, but you get the point) ?

A lot of women look ridiculous in the stuff that they wear these days, may be we should laugh at them?

In the five years that I have been a member of this site I have noticed that there have been a number of boys of school age who have appeared on this site with stores of their heeling, posting almost daily, then suddenly they disappear without trace. I remember some years ago a lad who claimed that he was going on holiday with his mother to Hawaii. He planned to wear a mini skirt with stiletto heel sandals for the whole of the holiday, even on the flight! He promised to let us know how he got on, but strangely he was never head of again! one has to wonder whether it was all fiction, or did his mother have him certified?

Anyone know what happened to Anita-C ?

I can't see them catching on with the scuba diving fraternity! Can you imagine the reaction if you turned up for a boat dive with a group of hairy divers wearing those :-)

I have two pairs of HayWay court shoes with a 2.5" heel, which in the size 12 UK makes them a kitten heel on me. I find that they are very useful for wearing with a skirt late at night, in remote locations were the ground is uneven and wearing 4" heels with a straight skirt would be difficult to say the least.

Yes they are sadly missed, most of my shoe collection came from them. :-(

Fifties style straight black skirts, like my avatar. Calf-length with a small kick pleat at the back. Worn with 4" heel stiletto pumps and a black polo neck top. They are just amazing things to wear !!