trickrider

5'11" usually around 165lbs. However, that takes a LOT of work to maintain. However with a side avocation as a horseback trick rider with a regular show schedule, I absolutely have to stay slim. I have a short torso and long legs and rather small waist (I wear 28" waist jeans). I can easily find jeans to fit me, but dressier pants are just a nightmare as it is extremely hard to find the small waist size with long legs, usually just have to go to the women's (junior's) dept. even though I've never cross dressed and doubt if I ever will. Does seem though that the combination of narrow build and long legs is far more common among females, thus the availability of something that fits. Any type of heels work fine for me, although I have only worn either tall heeled cowboy boots or chunky clogs publicly.

Just another comment or two. As I said before, a definite NO on the "bi" thing. My wife and I have several pairs of matching footwear. Albeit, two pairs are Ariat boots, but we also have a couple pairs of clogs that are the same style. We don't wear matching shoes/boots very often, but I do like the sense of connectedness from it. I just sort of wish we both wore the same size, I'm small footed for a guy and easily fit in women's sizes, but she is small footed for a woman, so that still puts us about four sizes apart. Almost my entire collection of shoes/boots are technically "women's" as with my small and rather narrow feet, the look at fit is much better than men's sized shoes. Most are very unisex casual shoes, clogs, or cowboy boots. Nonetheless, even in boot styles where an identical style actually is made for both men and women, the women's model looks far better on my foot because there isn't all that extra width.

Not at all. I like women, like some of their shoe styles, and have small feet that fit better in "their" shoes anyway instead of those river barges made for men.

Those twisted x boots look really good. I've noticed these on various websites for quite awhile, now that I see how good they look with jeans and actually on someone, I might have to try to find a pair. Do they fit fairly true to size?

Although I've been pretty active for quite a long time, a couple years ago I sort of let my weight creep up on me and I woke up one day decided I was disgusted with myself and the situation was going to change. Anyway, it did and today I'm about 55 pounds lighter and pretty much about as lean as I can be without starting to loose strength and athletic performance. I've always had small feet for a nearly 6' tall guy at roughly 8.5 mens, but they definitely fit about 1/2 size smaller now than a couple years ago. However, they are not smaller than when I was 18 years old, just about the same although I'm 46 now. Less weight might reduce how "flat" you push down on your feet which may result in fitting comfortably in a smaller shoe. Don't really know what the technical details might be, but I certainly fit smaller now.

They go up to size 11 womens. Looks like Nordstrom has the best price. Fortunately, they're in my size range... or maybe I should say unfortunately, because I'm pretty sure I'll wind up getting a pair.

Jeffrey Campbell Charlie clogs..... awesome. I'm afraid I might have to get a pair.

I think your question has been well answered by several other posts, but I'll add my two cents as well. People come with all sorts of different ideas about what they think is the "norm" for a guy to do. For myself I have sometimes felt the sting of prejudice in my sports pursuits which focus mostly on men's gymnastics and horse trick riding. I also used to ride broncs in rodeos. Believe it or not, there are people who think those sports are "sissy" or "girly", and a surprising number think cowboys are gay. Of course most any "hypermacho" type of guy would be quickly reduced to a pile of aching muscles with just a few minutes of exposure to what I do or in the case of the broncs.... a couple seconds. My pursuits require me to be about as fit as possible and how that becomes "girly" is beyond me. I really think that some people's "ideal" perception of a guy is some loser with a beer gut. I am also disgusted how people write off women's gymnastics or women trick riders as not being strong, etc. because they are women. However, for every person who holds these attitudes, there are five, ten, or more who respect a person for their athletic accomplishments irregardless of their gender. Needless to say, it's not surprising that we run into the prejedices in regards to what a guy wants to wear on his feet. I don't wear heels publicly, although I do like to put a pair on once in awhile in private. However, I have small feet and I get a much better fit from wearing western boots and other casual shoes that are sized and labeled as "womens". Life is too short to worry much about other's perceptions, be true to yourself and wear what you want.

For me, it's definitely just "man in heels" or perhaps I should say "man in chunky heels". Most of my shoes and boots are technically "womens", but this is partly because of having small feet and my dislike for the fit and wide sloppy look of most mens styles. That being said though, my shoes and boots are primarily unisex styles that would probably never catch anyones attention unless they were a footwear affectionato and "know" their brands and styles. Nonetheless, I'll wear relatively tall platform clogs or chunky platform boots to certain occasions such as a concert, movies, etc. As for any other clothing items, I do own several pair of women's jeans, but here again it is for fit reasons. Being inclined to participate in various acrobatic sports such as gymnastics and trick riding, by necessity I am pretty small in circumference. On top of that I have a short torso and long legs, the challenge to find long jeans (at least 36" inseam) with a 29" or 30" waist in men's styles is virtually impossible. Fortunately, most of the time I dress fairly western and for some reason western jeans are readily available in tall, skinny sizes. But sometimes I like to break away from the western look and that's when my only real options are in the women's department.

I like a lot of styles, but have to admit I really like big chunky goth boots and shoes. Most are really quite unisex and I like the look on both guys and girls. Anyone else here have some new rocks, buffalos, demonias, etc. mixed in with their shoes and boots collection?

I wouldn't mind being about a size smaller, but considering my nearly 6' height, I have always considered myself fortunate to be around a men's 8.5 with a slightly narrow foot. That gets me into a significant percentage of readily available women's styles in the size 10 or 11 range. Although I don't wear anything high heeled in public other than at halloween or something like that, the majority of my shoes and boots are technically womens styles (albeit quite unisex styles).I get a better fit than a similar or even identical style that is made as a mens shoe. Men's shoes in general are wider and feel too wide on my feet, they also just look "fatter". Some of my cowboy boots are available in the exact same color and style in both men's and women's sizes, but the women's boot looks much better on my foot. I'm pretty lean and athletic with a small circumference so wearing bulky men's style shoes really detracts from my overall style.

I would assume that it is safe to say that most of the guys here long ago decided that they would rise above the "mire" of obsessing about conforming to male stereotypical behavior patterns. I realize that we range from confident cross dressers to guys who have a pair of heels stashed in a box somewhere that are pulled out when no one else is home. For myself, I'm closer to the guy with the hidden box, but in reality almost all of my footwear are technically "womens". My feet are rather small and a tad narrow, so I discovered a number of years ago that women's models simply fit me much better. However, the shoes or boots that are worn daily fall into the range of Dr. Martens, chunky clogs and a good supply of Ariat Fatbaby boots. But the footwear thing aside, I'm curious how a lot of you percieve yourselves relative to what I'd call the typical obsession with being "macho" or whatever that so many guys fall into. Does your open mind in regards to footwear extend through your whole life? In line with my "screen name", I am involved in horse trick riding and I'm a gymnast. Both of these pursuits are for more populated by females than males even though I honestly think that most guys (especially the really outwardly macho ones) would be scared to death to do either. Of course I love these activities, but there is actually something about the majority of participants being female that strengthens the interest. Then again, shouldn't that be a no-brainer to the typical "macho" guy to want to participate in female dominated sports to be in the company of some of the most fit women around? (Sure works for me!) Strangely enough, it must not work for the macho guy. Anyway, I know I'm rambling a bit, but seems like an interesting, perhaps philosophical thread.

Although I like a lot of different styles, one of my favorites that actually work pretty good for public wear are platform clogs. I own a number of styles by Mia, London Underground, etc. with the favorite ones having heavy wooden soles and heels. Some have a lug sole too. What's nice about these styles is that with jeans they pass for a boot and the chunky soles really aren't necessarily feminine. It's a style I have loved to see on women ever since being a teenager in the late 70's early 80's, but I like it for myself as well and fortunate for me, my feet are small enough to pick up pairs on ebay for cheap. I have worn these types of clogs publicly on numerous occasions with no ill effect although they're really not all that high in the 3" range. Anyone else into this style?

I have been very interested in this concept since I first saw the Beckham photo. I decided to take a pair of inexpensive lace up platform ankle boots (6" heel, 2" platform) and remove the heels to conduct an experiment. The heel removal was easy as there was no metal reinforcing rod, just plastic. I thought that it might be difficult to walk in them since they weren't made from the start as heel-less boots. But I was very pleasantly surprised. It was actually very easy to walk in them and I found myself walking quite a bit and didn't really want to take them off. They also looked really neat too. It's actually harder to just stand in place than to walk since you do have to stay focused on balancing forward a bit. I would love to have a "serious" pair of heel-less boots someday, but I have at least experienced the concept for very little investment. It also came to mind that walking in these might be beneficial to the calf muscles and certainly for one's overall balance. As a gymnast and aspiring horse trick rider, I might be able to consider my heel-less boot walking to be part of my conditioning routine.