Robby

I'm 54 and enjoy uplifting feeling of heels.

Hi Thighboots2, Can I ask where you got your shoes. I would like to order a pair. Also I am Scottish so I do wear Kilts to specific events, but you don't have to be Scottish to wear a kilt. To me it is a fashion statement. Also many years ago the British government outlawed the wearing of a kilt. Wearing one now is legal but it still is associated to rebellious natures. Get one and let you wife see you in it.

I am curious what women really think of a man in heels. After all raised heels appeared in the 1500s for men. They were developed when the leather saddle stirrup was being replaced with wooden stirrup. The soft soled shoes with no heel would slid forward in the stirrup causing the rider’s foot to slip through the stirrup, causing him to fall off the horse with his foot caught in the stirrup while being drug to death. So the thicker soul was fashioned to distribute a man’s weight with a heel to stop his foot from slipping through the stirrup. Still the short heel would still sometimes slip forward in the stirrup causing the same problem, so heels continued to gain in height. Then in the 1600s men began wearing fashionable shoes with heels between 3 and 4 inches in height. The phrase “Well Heeled” came from this era. The first sign of women’s heels appeared around 1533 when Queen Catherine de”Medici commissioned a cobbler to fashion a pair of heels, both for fashion and to make her taller. Now days, the only heals made for men come on Cowboy Boots. The Cowboy was some what vain, believe it or not. In the mid to late 1800s men with smaller feet were considered sexier. So the underslung heel was made. It ranged from 2 inches to over 3 inches in height. It had all the characteristic of a riding heel but with a more underslung slop. A riding heel was about 2 inches in height to prevent the foot from slipping through a metal stirrup and sloped on the back side to prevent catching brush or tree limbs while backing a horse. The underslung heel made a man’s foot print appear one shoe size smaller then it actually was. As time passed the underslung shortened to about 2 to 2 ½ inches in the early 1900s. All the main Cowboy actors wore them. But as time has passed and stirrups were replaced with gas peddles, the heels all but disappeared except on custom boots. I love the underslungs because they in some magical way extend my legs, make me taller and create an elevated sense of well being. Being an avid hiker, I sustain a foot injury which turned into Plantar Fasciitis. My Doctor recommended I stay in my boots with a tall heel because it would help my Plantar Fasciitis and high arches. So today most of my boots have underslung heels and I don’t have Plantar Fasciitis, wish hiking boots had a little more heel. Do women really like to see men in heels, say 2 ½ inches to 3 inches or is it just an oddity like seeing a man in a Kilt? I read an article that said women love to see a man in a kilt but don’t want their men wearing one. So what is your opinion?