Heelfan

Hi Everyone! STOP PRESS! . . . . . LONDON HEEL-MEET. SATURDAY 4th OCTOBER 2003: To add to what already promises to be a heel-packed LONDON HEEL-MEET, by incredible coincidence, we find that there are several HEEL EVENTS already on in London (asterisked below*) for us to visit! This is a possible suggested itinerary (flexible!): 10.30am - 11am ASSEMBLE on pavement outside entrance tunnel no. 5 of Tottenham Court Road Underground Station (S.E. corner of station, near Centre Point office tower). If wet, assemble in inner end of tunnel. Anyone delayed, please come anyway and ring Firefox's mobile 07941 172043 for the group's current whereabouts. 11am - 1`pm OXFORD ST. & CARNABY ST. SHOE SHOPS. 1pm - 2pm LUNCH/DRINKS/CHATS/INFO/ANECDOTES 2pm - 3pm *FERRAGAMO'S TEMPORARY VINTAGE SHOE EXHIBITION at Harrods, Knightsbridge (Marilyn /Monroe's stilettos, Audrey Hepburn's, Madonna's etc., archive shoe photos or Joan Crawford etc.). 3pm to 5pm CAMDEN'S 'ALTERNATIVE' SHOE SHOPS. 5pm to 7pm *"SKIN TWO EXPO" THE WORLD'S BIGGEST INTERNATIONAL FETISH RETAIL FAIR. Temporarily on at Barbican Exhibition Centre. Plenty of photo opportunities, and amongst many other sights, our board member Platform Baby will be strutting there in outrageous shoes! £6. (Entry optional). 7pm to 8pm DINNER/DRINKS/CHATS/INFO/JOKES 8pm to Late *RAYMOND'S REVIEW BAR to watch great ladies performing in amazing heels (plus eyeballing the adjacent windows of fetish heels, shoe videos and shoe fetish books in Walkers' Court). Admission Fee. (entry optional). and/or *SKIN TWO's HOUSE OF FLESH (fetish show on tonight only) at "Sahara Nights", King's Cross. £20 (gulp!). (entry optional). NOW! Who amongst you could miss this heely day of a lifetime??? Please post at the base of this thread if you are keen to come! So far, we seem to be expecting Firefox, Xaphod, Dr. Shoe and Ruth, Me, Calv, Yam Yam (it would be great to see Julietta too!), Ionic and Daz. Cheerfully yours, Heelfan

Well, six of us turned up and had a great day in Oxford - see Firefox's Aesthetic Heels forum for full reports from both Firefox and me. We are now batting dates around for the next two UK Meets at London and Birmingham respectively, and also for the Paris Euro-Meet. Please see under separate topic-heading here for "Forthcoming Meets at London, Birmingham and Paris" Cheerfully Yours, Heersfan

Hello Ritton! I've just had a brilliant idea! ..................................................MOVE! Or, on second thoughts, why not re-arrange your life for a career-change and give your heel-less town a treat by starting-up a mind-blowing high-heel store containing all of your dream styles and heels! That would shake the town up a bit! Give 'em what for! Cheerfully yours, Heelsfan PS - More sighting please folks!

Hi YamYam! Yes, excluding you of COURSE. The group knows you've been smitten by Cupid or Eros or whatever they call the little guy with the bow-and-arrow. Nevertheless, we were very sorry you couldn't make it to our great heel day at Oxford on 12th July (see Firefox's and my reports on Firefox's Aesthetic Heels For Guys Forum) - the two of you would have made the day even better. Still we're talking about further meets. Suggestions include London (possibly late September 03), Birmingham (possibly October or November 03), and a Euro-Meet in Paris at some point in the winter. PS Julietta MUST be wonderful if she's even more lust-making than the legendary Kat Slater! Cheerfully Yours, Heelsfan.

Ah yes, High Surprise, that's all very well, but if your suggested exchangeable-height heels were in common use, you wouldn't have seen your recent incredible sighting of the petite Oriental girl in Barnet looking so tired in her ultra high heels that she couldn't walk! She'd have screwed-in her lowest kitten accessory heels and would have blended into the boring crowd of also-rans and non-starters! Genuine heel-wearers take the rough with the smooth and wear them for the entire duration, whatever the obstacles. That's the whole fun and challenge of being a through-and-through heel-wearer. Whenever I see a girl travel to and from a party in ugly flat loafers and only change into her high heels to socialise for a limited time, I always think it's "cheating" and have more respect for the GENUINE high-heel ladies who wear them for the whole round-trip experience. Cheerfully yours, Heelsfan.

All this stuff about LEARNING just p's me off! What's the big deal? For Christ's sake, just get your high heels (making sure they fit) and DO it! And keep on DOING it! Now I'm a bloke with very muscular, stocky unsupple limbs and joints where any keep-fit (and especially yoga) exercises are concerned, and yet I just got going street-heeling (2" right up to 5 1/2") with none of this nonsense about learning to balance etc. and without my knees sticking forward. If I can do it, and adapt my ankle-angle downwards etc. then anyone can! Again, look at that recently reported and photographed guy's charity-walk-in-high stilettos where dozens of guys took part and very successfully managed the entire walk, virtually all of them presumable just going from nothing into 4"+ stilettos. Nothing was said about any high-faluting training programme beforehand! Same with the thousands of teenage girls that are currently flocking into the shoeshops to buy their stilettos of all heights. They enter the shop, buy the heels and start wearing them - simple as that! they're only shoes for Christ's sake, not rocket science! The only rider to that is that some girls are unprepared for the burning pressure on the balls of their feet after the first two hours and promptly give-up on heels without getting spongy insoles or realising that their feet will harden-up and adapt to the pressure after a few regular wearings, but that's nothing to do with learning to walk in them. The reason I get so infuriated by all this 'Learning' crap (and as many of you will know, I'm normally such a very cheerful chappie) is that such silly talk is bound to put-off all the would-be guys and gals from venturing into heel-wearing to start with. Anyone reading all that 'Learning' rubbish could be forgiven for thinking that the whole thing would be an impossibly uphill struggle and give up before they've even tried it! Come on all you wimps, abandon all your feeble wimperings, think positive, and portray to all the new and budding young viewers to this forum that its easy, it's fun, it's great and it's UTTERLY FANTASTIC!!! Onwards and Upwards!, From an uncharacteristically p'd off Heelfan.

As a high-heel sighting this is cheating a bit, being a set of "Arm Chair Sitings". However, I can't resist reporting that an excellent new Guests' Gallery has appeared on the previous rather frumpy STREETHEELS site:

http://www/streetheels.co.uk/

Click on to both pages of their Guests' Gallery and enjoy ordinary real British girls going about their real everyday lives in real stiletto heels that they've chosen for themselves (not some blonde tart dragged into some phoney bedroom setting for half an hour and told to sit on the edge of the bed with their feet in brand new fetish shoes 3 sizes too big with no wear whatsoever whenever the underside of the soles are in shot!).

Cheerfully Yours, Heelsfan

Re the Eastenders actresses, I hope everyone realises and appreciates what a celebrated gathering of important high-heel wearers they are: PAULINE the actress that plays Pauline was the girl's voice on the old pop hit 'Come outside', and later wore some really super high heels as Miss Brahms (alongside Molly Sugden playing Mrs. Slocombe who also wore some great heels) in the comedy series 'Are You Being Served?'. PEGGY MITCHELL is played by Barbara Windsor who is a sort of British equivalent of American high-heel-godess Dolly Parton. In the 'Carry On' series of films she wore increasingly high heels, and in her more recent appearances has gone higher still. Whenever her heels are glimpsed on Eastenders (despite all the attempts of the camaraman to exclude them!), they are fantastic, and she moves across the set using tiny steps. Sadly, she has temporarily left the series to recover from some debilitatiing illness that apparently takes some months to run it's course. I am sure all of you on these high heels forums will wish to join me in wishing her a full and speedy recovery! SHARON The actress playing Sharon has worn some great high heels in more than one series. When she starred two or three years ago in a TV series about 1960s telephone-exchange girls, she not only wore some excellent period heels throughout, but was even given a line to the effect of "I love wearing high heels and recommend them to all you girls because they make our legs longer and our bums and bosoms stick out more so that we are altogether more attactive!". MANY OTHERS Many of the other actresses can be glimpsed wearing great heels, even the downtrodden ex fish-and-chip lady if you look underneath her trouser-bottoms. THE FOUR SLATER SISTERS What more can I say! Kat is obviously the glorious leader and has turned up on set in the most amazing and varied collection of heels. Even in her first week she was scripted to remove one of her red boots with a 5" heel and to plonk it on the bar of the Old Vic! I doubt if there are many guys on these high heel forums who would say no to a quick fling behind the gasworks with the one and only Kat Slater! And of course, later was the famous episode described above of all of them wearing matching pink 5 1'2" pink stilettos for the wedding. Even little Mo, the supposed meekest of the four has sported some great heels. In real life, as an actress she appeared at the TV acting presentation ceremony to receive her award for splendidly acting the part of a victim of domestic violence, and she mounted the stage wearing the most superb pair of golden stiletto heeled courts that must have been at least 5" high. I apologise for leaving-out some past and present key high-heel actresses whose names I can't remember, but I hope my spirit of appreciation shines through! I lift my glass to toast the entire cast of very special high-heeled actresses. WELL DONE! (to everyone except the always-try-to-exclude eveyone's shoes cameramen!). Cheerfully yours, Heelsfan. ceremony to receive

Instead of a thermometer, can I suggest an INCLINOMETER? These are seen on the bridge of every seagoing ship so that the captain can see whether the ship is trim (when loading fuel and cargo), or is leaning-over a certain number of degrees to port or starboard. Might be useful to those novice wearers who are training themselves to walk with both heels dead vertical, or to certain of the more experienced wearers like Lucy who believe that a touch of inward tilt of the heels adds to the elegance and stability.

See two photos in 'Streetheels': http://www.streetheels.co.UK/

Click on to their 'Guest Gallery', second page, photos ggal0014 and ggal0015 and click on those thumbnails to enlarge.

Cheerfully yours, Heelsfan

Two excellent photos of a lovely girl 'Catwalk flipping' her stilettos inwards whilst walking along the street have just appeared in the Streetheels site:

http://www.streetheels.co.uk/

Click on to their 'Guest Gallery', second page, photos Nos. ggal0014 and ggal0015. Don't forget to click on to the thumbnails to enlarge!

Lovely to see a modern girl wearing such nice clothes and ENJOYING her stiletto heels like that! Takes me back to the earlier stiletto booms of the 1960s and 1980s!

Very cheerfully yours, Heelsfan

Thank you Himark and White-6"-Spike-Heels for your contributions. The reactions to Himark (great boots, Himark!) seemed to be 'good' rather than 'worst', and White-6"-Spike-Heels had one of those heel-toppling accidents that we all dread and we don't know whether to laugh or cry! However, his report didn't include any actual bad reaction, as such, so maybe anything negative was only in his own mind(?). More Worst and Best Reactions to your heel-wearing please guys! Cheers, Heelsfan.

Hello Kneehighs, thank you for your contribution! Your best reaction received was excellent, but you never know, your 'Worst reaction' may actually have been those girls saying something nice about your high heels, and might have qualified for another 'Best reaction'! Cheerfully Yours, Heelfan.

That's annoying isn't it? I suppose it's a timely warning to us all, and we should get the shop to physically measure the heel-height of the proposed pair before you commit them to shipping them. Thank you for the information. Cheerfully your, Heelfan.

That's annoying isn't it? I suppose it's a timely warning to us all, and we should get the shop to physically measure the heel-height of the proposed pair before you commit them to shipping them. Thank you for the information. Cheerfully your, Heelfan.

A LOVELY photo, but pity the photographer didn't stand a bit so one side so we'd all enjoy seeing the 6" heels and their effect on the costume (and on the model!). Great effect, but as already commented upon, pretty impossibly to market because ther shop would be struggling not only to fit the shoe to the buyer, but the whole combination of waist-size, leg-length etc. Cheerfully yours, Heelsfan.

Thank you for replying PJ. Yes, from my many playings of it, every second of Dolly's scenes (I always fast forward the rest!) is indelibly etched in my mind, and I certainly recall the interview! I love the way she saucily 'Catwalk flips' her stilettos at the end of each stride (they even included a close-up sequence of her purple shoes doing this). It made me wonder whether she always uses her heels like this, or whether she normally walks with her heels staying vertical, but turned the flipping on especially to spice-up 'Straight Talk" a bit more - if you have any comments on that, I'd be interested to hear! I'm so envious of your first-hand experience of seeing Dolly doing it all! No wonder you chose it to post it under this particular topic "My Best-Ever High Heel Sighting!" - Fantastic stuff! Cheerfully (and enviously) yours, Heelsfan.

Hold it everyone! Yes! I've been a double silly-billy! I only looked at the date of Firefox's reply (today!) and didn't realise until I telephoned him a moment ago that the original screeing and posting was last December. In fact I DID see that episode without realising that it is this same one described in the posting. All the Slater Sisters received a batch of Mail-Order pink ultra-high stiletto heels to wear as Bridesmaids at a wedding. Shots of their expressions as they first came out of the box, and more (fleeting) shots and they got in the wedding car and again (fleeting) shots going into the church and up the aisle. 10 out of 10 to the scriptwriter, costume department and actresses, but only 1 out of 10 to the director and cameraman for no decent-length panning-shot sequence of the sisters walking in them for a few yards. Always the same in Eastenders, so many of them wear knockout, very photogenic high heels and yey these are only ever fleetingly gimpsed or not included in the shot at all! Anyway, SORRY, you can all leave your video recording machines idle on Sunday after all! Yours cheerfully but apologetically, Heelsfan.

As above reported by me last weekend, Bristol's pubbing and clubbing fraternity on Frinday and Saturday nights hasn't looked so good for years (many, many stilettos about now, although admittedly nothing much over 4" yet, and not a single clumpy 'Pod' style left anywhere in sight!). However, I'm delighted to report that the stiletto trend is now also spreading to the all-day office workers! I happened to be in the commercial centre at around 5 pm when the secretaries etc. were pouring out of their offices, and was bobbydazzled by all the very short, mid-thigh-length tight black skirts and a number of nice stiletto heels! My star prize mentally went to the girl in the slingbacks with very thin 4 1/2" steel-tipped stiletto heels click-click-clicking her way to the bus stop. Cheerfully yours, Heelsfan

Hang on ......... of COURSE! I'm an idiot not to think of this! If it was THIS week that you saw the Eastender's Slater Sisters trying-on 5 1/2" heels, then it should be visible to us all on this SUNDAY AFTERNOON'S OMNIBUS REPEAT of Eastenders! There we go folks, blank video tapes and recording machines at the ready, and hang on to your seatbelts! In fact, it's the day after this Saturday's SUMMER 2003 FUN HEEL-MEET at Oxford (see this forum under 'Real-life Fun and Shopping Meetings"), so what an amazing weekend we've got in store for us! From a cheerful and eagerly anticipatory Heelsfan!

I'd have given away family fortunes to have been in your shoes (even, yes even if they were flatties!) to watch Dolly Parton skyscraper-heeling it to-and-fro on a fil set for three whole days! Can you remember what the film was? If it was 'Straight Talk', it has already got pride-of-place in my video collection and I extoll it's virtues at every opportunity in these forums. If you can recall it as another title, please let us all know and we'll all be plaguing our local video film suppliers! Cheerfully yours, Heelsfan

Personally, I get absolutely equal and very great pleasure both from wearing and watching. I'd hate to give-up either! Anyway, come on all you watchers - more of your GREAT SIGHTINGS please! Cheers, Heelsfan

Yes, in fact I've spotted similar different-height heels at least three or four times over the years (the last occasion being only three weeks ago) and, if I might say so, a MUCH better solution for ladies than the dreaded surgical boots which turn the wearer into OTTO or whatever Frankenstein's monster was called! On a closely related matter, one or two forum-users have mentioned wheelchair-bound ladies wearing attractive high heels as they are pushed around. Well "Why not!" I say - good for them! Even if they suffer the grave misfortune of not being able to walk, at least they are showing the world that they can still be fashion-concious and can make their feet look nice and still give everyone a little treat! Cheerfully yours, Heelsfan

Damn! Trust me to miss that episode - that must have been AWESOME, especially if the mega-sexy KAT Slater was one of the sisters in question. Can you please spare us the time and trouble to descibe every little bit of that event in the minutest detail? I am sure that I and every other site-viewer will be eternally grateful to you for your efforts. Cheers, Heelsfan

Don't blame Firefox too much Micha! I think he was only speaking hypothetically to try and point out that not everyone in that Aerospace group necessarily agreed with the snidey comments. Firefox has probably done as much, if not more than anybody (ie setting-up and moderating his own 'Aesthetic High Heels for Men' Site amongst many other things) to champion the cause of guys in heels and general free-styling for guys. A veritable 'Giant amongst men!' in fact (helped by his 4 1/2" Barretts' blades, of course!). Cheerfully yours, Heelsfan.

Yes! To sum-up yours and countless previous postings on these forums: Women can and do dress-up in men's clothes (trousers, jackets, collars, ties, stout flat shoes, short hair etc. etc.) and no-one bats an eyelid. Men can deck themselves out with kaftans, long hair, beads, ear-rings, body-piercing etc. etc. and still no-one bats an eyelid. And yet the subject of men wear high heels, particularly high stilettos seems to be regarded be many as a line that cannot be crossed without the risk of serious embarrassment and worse, hence very very sadly, guy after guy admits on the men's forums that they'd dearly love to step out into the wide world in heels, but just has not got the courage! It's fascinating that this high-heels 'barrier' seems to survive in so many people's minds when the other above trans-gender issues have been generally accepted by now. Perhaps it's because high heels are much more powerful as sexual symbols than all the other clothes and adornments? One reason for inviting the BEST reactions (as well as the worst ones) is to encourage the waverers and shy-guys into stepping-out. We veteran streetheelers, and especially the celebrated Hilucs, Firefoxes and Xaphods of this world will tell the waverers that their fears are totally unfounded, and that it's a doddle and a cinch when you actually get going! LET'S HAVE LOTS MORE WORST AND BEST REACTIONS, PLEASE! Cheerfully Yours, Heelsfan