euchrid

Come on guys! This is the HHPlace!

I second that!

In the words of Graham Chapman (Monty Python) - "stop it right there, it's getting silly".

Red Rum

lager ... ... ...

Globe.

... d'oh!

Athletics

Netball

affirmative

Creation...........

Paganism

Just saw this on TV & had to find it on YouTube to watch again (& again & again & again...!)

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=8qconYIuNEY

Hot girls. Great heels.

Good tune too, although it's not usually my kinda thing.

Does anyone fancy a meet at Bluewater in the next couple of months? A day time when the kids are at school sounds best to me so maybe that's September? There's loads of shops to try on shoes!!

loswabs -

Sounds good to me! How about Friday 21st or Friday 28th Sept?

I recommend you start a new thread about it to seperate it from the earlier Reading heelmeet.

scent............

Rubber

The Spice Girls were rubbish. They'll be twice as rubbish now.

They were (and obviously still are) a bunch of vacuous, talentless, media puppets and publicity whores.

Having "Girl Power" obviously means "using tabloid hype to sell pop songs (written by men - oh the irony!) & tatty merchandise to impressionable kiddies and tone-deaf teenagers".

That said, I did like their Viva Forever song!

As regards their footwear inspiration, I don't remember them having all that much effect on the high street back in the 90's. They may have I increased sales of Buffalo platform trainers to teenage girls but those don't count as heels.

Emma & Victoria have probably done more for heels since the SG's broke up, with their regular wearing of Christian Louboutin, Prada, etc. court shoes.

husk ..............................

Has anyone seen the new Capital One ad. which is now showing on UK TV? It's about credit card identity theft. There's a bit where a bank manager says to a defrauded customer "last month you spent £300 on shoes" (something like that anyway) the customer - who is a beefy, man's-man stereotype - looks puzzled and there's a brief 'fantasy clip' of him playing rugby whilst wearing a pair of strappy silver stilettos. It was quite amusing I thought, even though the subliminal message is the usual one (a man in heels! tee-hee! see how daft he looks!)

Hells Bells !

seriously though, Nice One!

- but what I really wanna know is, are AccaDacca ever gonna tour UK again?

I agree, it's a great article giving a positive slant to the subject. I've just added a comment to it (as 'Johnny Alpha') but i'm not sure it's still an active topic - last updated in April wasn't it?. The boots looked great but personally speaking, they're too pointy for me. And, as chris100575 said, they're a bit too fetish-looking. I would have liked to see him 'do' Cinderford in some typical womans high-street fashion boots as I think it would have got more favorable comments.

stimulate

Areolae (I thought dirty! )

Robin.

An addendum to my report

The footwear we were wearing at the heelmeet was:-

Xaphod - black, block-heeled boots. The heels looked about 3½ inches high.

They were quite noticable and a few puzzled stares and double-takes were seen on the faces of other shoppers. Excellent!

I'll leave Xaphod to add the technical details (make, size, etc.)

Calv - black wedge-heel boots. About 2 inches high I would guess.

Again, Calv can give you the full specifications.

Myself - initially I was in trainers (or sneakers to you USA folk!)

After arriving at the main shopping centre, I changed into these for a while -

I was wearing longish black jeans which covered them up fairly well but the heels were still on show. I was nervous as hell for the first 15-20 minutes - this was my first time streetheeling in daylight. I can honestly say that I enjoyed it though & I wanna do it again ASAP!

My mini-report on yesterdays' mini-heelmeet:

It was only a trio of us on the day. Me, Xaphod & Calv

"When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"

We did a comprehensive troll around the high street areas and the two shopping centres, perusing the high-heeling wares in the usual range of outlets.

Nothing much was to be found in most of them, with the summer ranges - the slingbacks, sandals and yeeugh...flats! - displacing the boots virtually out of existance in most of them (yes TK Maxx i'm especially talking about you!).

A couple of independent stores were discovered but nothing special in those either. Crocs-mania also seems to have taken over in loads of shoe shops at the moment which is just downright depressing.

Better luck was found in a House of Fraser dept. store where they still had a good selection of boots being sold at up to 75% off. This meant the majority were still around the £70 mark mind you.

I found a pair that took my fancy (Kurt Geiger 'Vixen' knee boots; dk brown; size 7; £39). A bit small as I need a 7.5 really but I was tempted as they were still a pretty good fit. I didn't get them there & then but we returned later in the day so I could try them on properly in the fitting room. The young & pretty sales girl took the whole thing in her stride when I asked to try them on & then bought them (clearly for myself). Result!

Calv & Xaphod had a good look around but decided not to 'splash cash' on anything this time around.

We took a few refreshment breaks during the shopping spree & a pub lunch was enjoyed at "The Horn" public house. It was at this venue that Xaphod kindly pointed out my resemblance to Phil Collins (the bald Genesis drummer)! I'll get you for that mate!

For some reason we had difficulty getting an al-fresco coffee later in the day! Other than that it was a pretty laid-back and enjoyable event.

Our overall impression of Reading as a heelmeet venue wasn't too high though. I don't think any of us will be clamouring for a return visit. Having said that, a better choice of footwear in the shops would make it far more appealing so who knows.

It was a shame that a few other HHP members couldn't have made it on the day. Here's hoping the next one will rustle up more interest.

My suggestions for that if anyone is interested (and in my own order of preference) are:-

Bluewater Shopping Centre

Birmingham Bull Ring

Lakeside Shopping Centre

Oxford

Milton Keynes Shopping Centre

...or of course London again would be A-OK with me.

Be seeing you. Euchrid

Thanks for the nudge, Heelfan.

I'm not too knowledgeable about Reading and suitable meet-up spots.

There appears to be only one Starbucks in Reading & it's buried somewhere within the 3-storey Oracle shopping centre. Probably not wise to try assembling there on our first visit.

I propose we meet up at the railway station's main concourse coffee shop which I believe is a Costa Coffee.

There's a multi-storey car park directly behind the station so this would be a probable 'passing through' point for those coming by train (inc. myself) and by car.

My own ETA at the station is 11:45ish. If I can get my act together and catch an earlier train, I might be able to improve on that.

I've PM'd Calv, Firefox & thedesigner my mobile tel. no.

If anyone else wants to exchange numbers, give me a PM.

See ya Saturday then people!