Skirted-UK

Its proberly got more to do with the fact that she was driving an unfamiler car then the fact that she was wearing heels, after all she was a model, if anybody got to be used to wearing heels it must be a model. You could say she was wearing her working shoes!

Those of you who drive in high heels better read this !

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=461849&in_page_id=1770

If you want to learn to sew I suggest that you start with a simple straight skirt. The jacket on this outfit would be difficult to make even for an experienced dress maker and the flared skirt looks as if it has got at least 10 panels to it. Its not so much sewing it together, but fitting it to you will be the problem. Back in the seventies I used to make fifties style calf-length straight skirts as it was impossible to buy them at the time. Although they are simple to make, consisting of a small pleat, a back zip and 3 panels joined onto a waistband, it took me a long time to master the skills to make a good job of them. To make that outfit will take months, not only will you need a sewing machine, you will also need an Iron, a good pair of sharp scissors and a host of other things, not to mention a place to keep it all ! If you still want to make something I suggest that you go to your local library and borrow a book on sewing for beginners. If you want any more advice about sewing you can PM me

Would it not be wonderful if we could all go back to our teens when we were smaller and a lot thinner. When I was sixteen I thought I was the only boy in the world who liked wearing skirts and heels. ( No Internet in those days! ) I was terrified that someone would find out and I would go to great lengths to keep it a secret. I used to buy size 14! straight black skirts from M & S which were a bit big on the hips, women's waist were 12" smaller than their hips in those days. I was the same size as my girlfriend. When I think of all the opportunities that I missed in my teens when I could have been having fun instead of worrying that someone might find out. I would say to anyone who is young and thin, just milk it for all its worth before you get middle-aged. It a lot easier to pull off the trannie thing if you are in your teens than later.

Here is one of her in a rather nice fifties style dress with a tight skirt.

Hi Puffer!

Yes, broadly I would agree with what you've said, especially your point that many of us wore heels over 3" (contrary to Skirted's posting).

I would only venture to say that the first UK stiletto "craze" started earlier than you said, and hit us girls and our mothers in a big way in 1955. I think it had already started sweeping through Italy (and maybe the US) by 1954 or earlier, but 1955 the "Big Bang" reached the UK and by 1956 they were everywhere - on the streets, in my school (worn by the teachers and some of us more daring pupils), on cinema films etc. Remembering that there was only one fashion in those days - skirts, nylon stockings and high heels, every girl everywhere started wearing them. They came along the pavements in droves!

Love, Lucy

I think fashions caught on a lot quicker in London than they did in the shires in the fifties. I lived in a very conservative town and the straight skirt did not become popular down here until after 1956 and I don't remember any of the girls that I knew wearing 4" heels with it. Most parents did not want their teenage daughters wearing tight skirts and sky-high heels in those days.

Most of the girls that I knew wore 2.5" stiletto heeled sling-backs, some wore 3" heel court shoes. The first pair of 4" heel court shoes that I can remember were worn by a very short girl in our office who had small feet, that must have been about 1965. With the advent of the mini skirt in sixties, 4" heels went out of fashion together with straight skirts, it was all short skirts and flat shoes, or boots worn with them. I don't remember 4" stilettos coming back until the early eighties and straight skirts did not come back until the late eighties. 4" stilettos and straight skirts regularly come back into fashion as a new generation of women try them, but after a short while they soon tire of them and opt for more practical clothes.

Dont think that I would wear them myself, but they would look great on the right woman, wearing the right outfit. :-)

While we are on the subject of splits in shoes. I have a problem with upvc court shorts, (Pumps to our American friends) After a while they sometimes split on the widest part of the shoe, I usually just buy another pair ,but with the demise of HayWay shoes I have been looking at ways to repair splits in my large collection of HayWay pumps. I first make a patch to fit on the inside of the shoe were the split is, from one inch wide black Petersham tape. ( Petersham tape is what they use to reinforce the waistbands of skirts and trousers, you can buy it by the meter at any good dressmaking shop. ) I stick the patch on with Evostick on the inside lining of the shoe were the split is. When the patch is stuck I sew through the patch and the shoe fabric with doubled polyester thread, using a strong needle and a pair of long nosed pliers. I use a zigzag stitch working from one side of the split to the other. When I get to the end of the split I work back again, interfacing the second row of stitches in between the first row. When I get back to the start of the split I tie off the ends of the tread. The stitching now has pulled the split together so I now LIGHTLY cover the stitches and the split with Super Glue. I leave the shoe overnight for the glues to set hard and I finish it off by polishing the shoe with black shoe polish. Its properly not what Dr Shoe would recommend, but it seems to be a permanent method of repairing splits in upvc shoes. You cant really see the repair on black shoes unless you are looking for it, and its prolonged the life of several pairs of my favourite and now irreplaceable pumps.

I avoided all this grief when I was young by keeping it a secret and not telling anyone, after all these years I still think that it was the right thing to do. If you want to wear heels no one else needs to know about it!

I'm going through this phase at the moment. I just can't be bothered with the hassel of wearing a long straight skirt with 4" pumps. But I know it will change and soon it will come for me like a demon in the night! When I was a teenager I would often try to 'cure' myself of the habit of wearing straight skirts and heels. I would go into the woods at night and change, leaving my clothes in a hollow tree I would then walk for miles in the country until I was feed up with wearing a tight skirt and high heels. I would do this for several nights in succesion until I did not want to do it any more. But the effect did not last for long and the urge soon came back again. Don't get rid of your shoes Jeff!

Propane? Burn them off. Sorry, I'm in a mood. But it's all good~!

Don't try this at home !! :-)

I save my legs every morning in the shower with ordenary soap and a disposable razor. I like to feel the lining of my skirt on smooth legs.

Try www.tallandall.com. I have bought two long black skirts from them, one A line and one straight. The are very well made and I think they go up to almost 50" in lenght. The A line one that I have is 45" long and I am 6'. The hemline is only 2" off the floor when I wear it with 4" heels and I have to be very careful going up stairs in it.

Can you remember your first pair of heels? Mine was back in the early sixties, they were a pair of stiletto heel sandals with a 3" heel ( I thought they were really high at the time.) I had to put a piece of black leather in the front straps to make them wide enough for me. After that I bought a pair of 4" heel black sandals and modified them the same way, but it took me some time to master them. The heels were slim but flared out to a 1" wide base with a plastic tip, they also had a 1/2" platform. The plastic heel tips soon wore out and I had to make some steel ones to replace them. I cut the new heel tips out of 3 1/16" steel plate, they took a long time to grind into shape and make, but the noise they made was sensational. The next pair of heels I bought was a fetish pair of 6" heel black patent pumps, which I bought by mail order. But they were too high for me and I stuck to 4" heels after that.

Firefox is right, I started wearing long straight black skirts with high heels in my teens because it was great fun.Then I started worrying about what road I was going down and tried to give it up, trouble was everywhere I went there were women in straight black skirts and high heels to remind me what I was missing. In the end I gave up trying because it was too stressful and I knew that sooner or later I was going to end up at some remote location at night in a skirt and heels. Just learn to live with it and enjoy it, but don't let it become too obsessive.

It looks fine to me!

If you order the heel tips from Stiletto Heel Tips.co.uk don't forget to order the pin adapters as well. I found that I needed them for all my shoes. Dr Shoe did explain why I needed them but I have forgotten, there is a post about it here somewhere. Stiletto Heel Tips is an excellent company to deal with and their service is very fast.

Another thing that I hate is my bank's or BT's Indian call centre ringing me up to try and sell me something. Their English is so bad I usually can't understand what they are saying, I tell them they have got the wrong number and hang up. If they don't have their call centres in England I don't talk to them.

Au contrair! Everything you wear (and sometimes what you don't wear) sends some type of message to others - it's called image. Otherwise, guys like John Mallory would have no success at all with books like Dress For Success.

So now the questions become: A] What kinds of circles are you associating with? and B] What kind of image (message) are you trying to project?

Ankel chains used to be worn by women to advertise the fact that they were prostitutues. :-(

When I was in my teens I had a girlfriend who was nearly 6 ft. She invited me to stay at her house one weekend, I slept in her room and she slept in with her sister. In the middle of the night I could not resist getting up and trying on her stiletto heel sling backs and her straight skirts.

Sounds like you are best shot of her anyway.

No definitely not me, in fact this young lady must be in her 60's now ! I chose it because she is wearing the shoe and skirt style that I like.

An interesting idea, but 3" heel is low for me as I usally wear 4". The website does not seemed to be finished as they don't say how much they are or what sizes they do. I don't expect that they are cheap, Its proberly cheaper to buy a second pair of low heel shoes to walk to work in!

I agree with ilovepumps and JeffB as well. Actually, I love the click clack sound, of course I am pretty used to that sound now. Doesn't bother me a bit.

Same here, I always fit steel tips to my heels when the time comes to replace them. I just love the sound of steel heel tips on a tile or concrete floor

Hi Jeff How do those rsvp pumps compare size for size with Pleaser pumps? I take a size 15 in Pleaser pumps and I see that 15 is the largest size that you can get the rsvp pumps. Do you wear the same size in the rsvp pumps as you do with Pleaser ?

Have a look at this post guys.

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=1295742#1295742