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I used to think small feet (up to us 7 1/2 or were the only ones that looked good in heels. I think thats because the heel hight never went up as the sizes increased. But when you see a movie of a small foot, blown up several times life size, they still look the same, so its really a matter of aspect ratio. I have seen modern size 10's and larger that look just super. I think the maufactures are starting to catch on with sizing up the heels.

I don't know anyone who has had a bike for some time that hasen't fallen off and hurt them selves and maybe a loved one bad. Never the less nothing sounds as good as a Harley with pipes--well maybe a V8 stang with stright shots.

Where did you get thoes? Thats a regualtion concave heel, the cowboy heel of the 1870's to 1900's, i.e. 3" or 4" high and no bigger than a us quarter (24mm) at the tips. I had a pair up to about 10 years ago when they wore out. Thats my style if I can find them. I haven't seen anything like them in years.

Now don't get me wrong, the heels I like, its the skirt and maybe the top I don't care for. With out the skirt it might be ok.

This is for real??

I have this pair of boots I got in Reno a few years ago, made in Canada. Real nice boots with a 4.75" heel, 0.25"(6mm) in diameter. They have (and always have had) a lot of flex, so much that they are more like four inchers to ware. The heel comes to within an inch of the sole when walking. After losing about 20 lbs they are much better.

You know, spikes in the snow or ice are not that bad if they have steel tips. they kind of dig in.

Kind of like climing to the top of a pine tree in a high wind! I love the flex of spike heels. Guess I'm kind of unstable.

So, they look like you have had them a while, a few scuffs don't hurt anything. It's been 10 years sence I found a pair like thoes, glad to see a place up in Mi that sells them.

Just got my first pair of plats. 1.25" plat and a 5" heel, uk size 5.5 and they are great, I never thought I would like this kind of thing, but they are the best boots I have.

I have found that rubbing alcohol works on leather. Just pore it in and them put the boots etc on with sox you don't mind getting wet. I had a pair of size 8's that were tight in the ankle and it worked wonders.

I was 5' 10"+ at one time, but now am only 5' 8 1/2". That means I have to wear 3 1/2" or 4" heels to be my self again!

I know where my heel thing came from, flexable flatfeet! My feet flatened at 9 or 10 years of age and I became very fat because of it. I discovered heels about 4 years latter and they helped me get going again and lose over 50 lbs!! A pedorthist recomended I wear heels (3.5 to 4.5") and it works. I'm 62 now and have no foot problems as long as I wear my heels an hour or two a day. I also walk 4 to 6 miles a day (in good joging shoes). I have a lot of trouble with the popular press running down heels--they are heels!

I have a pair just like Yamyam's. Wear them quite a bit.

Counseling for heels? Come on! Some one needs to get a life. I remember the wife and I took one of the boys for counseling years ago, all we could see were "spiders and other things" going up the walls! We got out of there fast.

They look like they are stomping grapes. I think its the straight up and down block heels, no under cut and no give to them.

I have done that, and still do on occasion. Its surprising what you can learn from the past. Everything old is new again!

My mother and dad thought FDR was god, and they were republicans. I can remember when he died, they almost put a black sheet over the radio.

I have a pair where the heels kick forward, does that mean they are to short? (I kind of think they are, by maybe 1") Thats the trouble with US size 9's, the heel is maybe 1/2" shorter, or more, than on a size 10. Maybe that why 10's look better than 9's, more kink to the arch. I like that kink!!

Why be normal? I admit I still try but its hopeless.

I like my heels and that no one else wears them. I don't want it to become the norm.

How did I break it to the wife? I was in my late 30’s--early 40’s and going thru that rebellion (anger) some men go thru at that age when my wife came home with a pair of high heeled boots. I went nuts, I had always wanted a pair of old high heel cowboy boots like in the “B” westerns of the 30’s and 40’s. I tried on her boots and although they were 8.5AA’s I could do it. I went and told her look, I can wear your boots. I always wanted a pair like these; I’m going to get me a pair. And that was that. I figured I could easily wear 9B’s so I got a pair with higher and narrower heels than hers and I’ve been wearing that style ever since. I’m in my 60’s now!

Because thoes who don't know history are doomed to repeat it! We havet to get off this flat heel kick, so its good to know what caused it. Dr. Shoe: I know the Duke of Richmond picture. Thoes boots look like the prototype for all spike heel thighighs!

In the 1870’s some of Americas cowboys were wearing what they called “saddle dandies” with 4”+ heels that tapered down to no bigger than a quarter at the tips (less than an 1” sq). Why you could buy men’s boots with 2 1/2” regulation concave heels (Louis heels) right out of Sears and Roebucks catalog in the 1890’s. I don’t know what “regulation” meant.

I like them and I'm over 60. Infact I wish I could find a pair, I like the vertical instep. Where did you get them and what size are they?