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  1. Did anyone see Harry Hills' TV Burp yesterday? He did a short but funny skit where he flew around the studio wearing a pair of "magic" stiletto knee boots. Why? He was 'extracting the urine' out of an Eastenders scene. ;-) It was very funny and also great to see a man wearing stilettos on TV on a Saturday night. Will this advance our cause? Unlikely, but you never know!

  2. I came close to buying a pair of boots in Barratts (Oxford) last weekend. Only £15 for dk.brown leather ankle boots with 4" stiletto. I'm sure i've seen the same ones on sale for £65 in Faith before now. Didn't buy them & regretted it for the rest of the day. Still regretting it now ;-) Unlikey to be going back there for a while now so that's them gone :w00t2:

  3. They will now be required to wear hooker heels with straps so they don't fly off and hit some horny old goat n the head.;-)

    Or perhaps all "guests" will be required to wear hard hats and safety glasses!?!

    (there's a joke in there somewhere about keeping your helmet polished! :w00t2:)

  4. I pretty much agree with all of Tech's advice.

    My guess is that it will be received fairly well and without any strong negative reactions. So my advice is "go for it" --- I hope to be doing the same with my own 2 kids in a few years time.

    What you will need to prepare yourself for though are those times when it will be thrown back at you!

    If you have a sound relationship with your kids, these occasions will be few and far between. However, when you do have an argument with one of them (for whatever reason - e.g. they stayed out too late, they keep leaving dirty clothes on their bedroom floor, they've spilled something on your new sofa, etc.) be ready for them to - in the heat of the moment - "mention" your interest in heels.

    They are likely to apologise for insulting you once the argument has ended, but at those times you may find yourself being intensely hurt by the sort of comments that will be made.

  5. There's another ongoing thread for the heelmeet:-

    http://www.hhplace.org/discuss/real_life_meetings/11962-world_heel_meet_2009_london_date_change_saturday_feb_21_2009_a.html

    This thread is presumably redundant and can be locked.

    <mod mode> Just wanted to say that this thread will remain about the World Heet Meet in London only. Any other discussions about perceived pink slips and other off topic stuff will be cleaned up...thank you</mod mode>

  6. What do you think about this style?

    I like them too.

    I have a fond memory of two girls who wore shoes like this to secondary school. One wore a black pair & her friend wore a matching brown pair.

    I was sooooo jealous of them. :thumbsup:

    I will have to get myself a pair this year, I think.

  7. LovesHiHeels has covered it pretty much.

    The membership turnout was disappointing (three of us! :welcome: ). Understandable though, as many people had work and family commitments.

    It was a good place for a heel-meet though, I thought.

    It's a decent sized shopping centre with lots of shoe shops - exclusive name brands e.g. Kurt Geiger, Prada, as well as the usual high street names e.g. New Look, Barratts, Top Shop, for those of us without bottomless bank accounts!

    They also have a House of Fraser (pretty good shoe dept.) and a Debenhams (not so large shoe dept.). Neither are a patch on their Oxford Street counterparts though. In fact that's probably true of every shop in the place.

    After some initial nerves/doubts about trying heels on in the stores, I 'bit-the-bullet' and just got on with it. It was actually very easy and enjoyable.

    I was glad I had too as it prevented me from making a common error of mine -buying without trying! I have quite a number of boots that I bought on impulse only to discover later that they were uncomfortable, a poor fit or 'wrong' in some other way.

    New Look was probably the best shop for variety and ease of trying on - they have the shoes out in pairs. In most other places, you have to ask an assistant to retrieve the other one for you (time consuming & inconvenient, plus it adds to the pressure of trying on - "performance anxiety"!)

    NEXT didn't have much to offer in their sale. They also have the wonderful sale display idea of chucking everything onto heaped shelves. Absolutely crazy. They expect you to pay £40 or £50 (sometimes more) for boots that have been thrown around and treated like junk. Idiots!

    All other shoe shops were visited (exc. Dune which we didn't find) but most were unimpressive in terms of stock held and sale prices. When do the real sales start then, eh!?!

    Some bizarre footwear was spotted in Terra Plana but none of it appealled enough for a try-on (turquoise drawstring canvas kneeboots anyone?)

    As LovesHiHeels reported, the lunchtime queues to the food places were ridiculous so we made do with a trio of Boots Meal-Deals!

    I think Westfield compares extremely poorly with Bluewater in that respect where there was far more choice and far shorter queues to get something to eat.

    Yeah, I'd visit Westfield again. It has a good atmosphere generally and felt "safe" enough for some discrete streetheeling. Not that any of us indulged in it this time around.

    After 4+ hours of Westfield shopping we headed to Waterloo station for a visit to Honour. Nothing much to report about that place. The two young girls working in there basically looked at us as if we were perverts (which I suppose is only to be expected - that's the sort of clientelle they usually get!).

    After that, it was time for some liquid recuperation in a Waterloo pub.

    We were joined there shortly afterwards by FastFreddy who is still a HHP member in spirit if not in forum access rights! How soon before he's up for parole incidently, mods?

    Various 'well-oiled' ideas were generated for future heel-meets.

    Keep watching this space and here's hoping we see you at the next one!!! :thumbsup:

  8. Good evenin' viewers... The idea(s) suggested below have snowballed :thumbsup: A New Year sales shopping/dining trip to Westfield is planned for Tuesday 30th January. There are five probable attendees so far. If you would like to join our motley crew, drop me a PM or post to this thread. Let the shopping commence!

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