Guy N. Heels

:rofl: well, I think that you would look kind of silly if you were GOOSE-STEPPING in them!!

Oh YEAH? I guess you haven't seen the Radio City Rocketts lately - (now that I think about it, neither have I.)

Nevertheless, if you ever see the Rocketts do their high kick routine you'll retract that statement for sure. So just imagine a bunch of Nazis marching through the main aisle of Nuremburg Stadium suddenly locking arms and going into that high kick routine with the goose-step flavor. Bettcha never thought of that!

Hello Shafted. Yup! Youre right. We stayed in Bootbay harbor and took a day trip up to Camden We've been up your way many times. I showed your reply to my wife and she said to say hello so here go's. Hello Shafted! I can hear her laughing as I read this post out loud. On a more personal note, You Mainers are blessed with some beautifull country up there. We hope to retire in Maine someday soon... larry.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that people that go to Maine to see the scenery for the summer were visitors; and that people who come back to visit summer after summer are called Mainers. Then there are those who come for the summer but decide to stay for the winter - they're called Mainiacs! :rofl:

Why would you find a need to dress up as a woman if you're really not a crossdresser? I have worn my stilletoes out to a nice restaurant with grey slacks and a blue blazer. When I needed the rest room I had no qualms whatsoever of going to the men's room. No one said a thing or even seemed to notice I was wearing heels. Some possible suggestions on choice of costume would be a] Pirate - Payless is featuring a high heeled boot with a large buckle this fall that would fit right in; b] Gaucho - see the Payless boot above; c] Gangster - with wide bottomed long-legged pants and heels; d] Darth Vader - in heels of course; e] Biker - in leathers and heels; or f] casual dressed (no costume at all) man in heels. Maybe you can even get the wife to participate in the project.

Wow, I feel really short.

Well, don't. I seriously doubt that most of the posters on this forum wear heels because they feel vertically challanged. Most of us simply harbor a passion for fashion. As for me, I started out at about 70", but a medical condition has caused my spine to collapse. So now I'm about 66" in stockings. Thankfully, a pair of 3" to 4" heels can get me back to where I was before.

I see posts on this board practically every day from young men (12,13,14,15,16) as well as mature adults who seem to be expressing the same kinds of self-consciousness and misgivings I had when I first became interested in heels. These people both need and deserve some kind of support with an interest that, in itself, hurts no one and has no basis for moral judgement. I prefer to offer such support as best I can, as opposed to "throwing rocks". I've never been "down under" and so I have no way of understanding some of the comments you've made. But in my personal experience - life is what you make of it. Whether you choose to wear heels or not is up to you. How your community responds to your choice is - believe it or not - largely up to you. But I do think it rather unfair to launch a huge invective against this board.

I started answering this point - and realised that I was going off topic very quickly - but also it's something I've thought a long time.

Why do you think being gay is a non-positive thought? I'm really concerned about how keen everyone is to say they're not gay. It's bordering on homophobia. When I was considering going to my first heelmeet the organisers stressed to me that everyone who went were a nice bunch of straight guys. I can't really see what the worry is in this day and age.

Scotty, please don't think I'm having a go at you I could have picked up numerous comments over the past few days, weeks, months - I just want to air this topic a little bit and see what other guys think. As far as I'm concerned, I have had people think I'm gay and it can be quite fun watching them trying to make their minds up.

Interestingly enough, I've just checked 2 of my dictionaries and have been unable to find homophobic in either one. Is this a word that has recently been coined by the rabbid homosexual community?

From what I've seen on this board so far, I find no compelling evidence that this board harbors anti-gay prejudice. Nevertheless, as recently as 30 years ago homosexuality was condemned by almost every society and anyone who was thought to be homosexual in any way almost instantly became a pariah. I believe that this stigma still exists until this day.

However, I believe that there is a distinct difference between people who are seeking to address fashion issues and those who prefer a distinctly different sexual orientation. In my personal experience, every sort of homosexual solicitation or encounter I've had came from men who dressed so ordinarily that I would never have given them a second look. Indeed, it was only after they had solicited me that I had any idea of their sexual preferance. Moreover, I do not suppose for even an instant that these same things are not also true for women. So I find this to be a rather strange set of circumstances: i.e. men whom I have met dressed in drag, high heels, earrings, etc. never solicit me while men who look exactly like the people I work with sometimes do. I have also heard women make similar comments about being approached, including my girlfriend and my own mother! A curious set of circumstances.

To my mind, the style of clothing one chooses to wear may suggest certain things, but is not necessarily an indicator of their sexual orientation. In short, just because one puts on an airline pilot's uniform doesn't make him one any more than my going to a library makes me a book or going to a hospital makes me a doctor.

For the record, I wear high heels and skirts; my ears have been pierced for many years; and I have even worn makeup, wigs, and dresses in public. Yet I am totally revolted by homosexual advances or solicitations.

A murderer or rapist taking trophies is nothing really new, even back in 1980. Its been happening for decades if not longer but yeh it won't help people like our community here much

...Trophy collection goes way back to the Mongols or who-ever, used to cut heads off their defeated enemies and display them...maybe the romans - need to read up on that again.

Just shows how the mis-deads of one person can cause the "punishment" of many! :x

Well I, for one, refuse to accept "guilt by association". If this bloke is out collecting "trophies" for his mis-deeds then he needs to face the music and pay-up for his crimes. But I came by (buy) all my shoes honestly and I really don't care if the bloke has a whole warehouse full of stuff, that really has nothing to do with me.

As for the other "trophies" mentioned - this is rather grissly - both the Germans (the ancient Assyrians) and the Japanese collected heads as war trophies. The Japanese women would even go to the trouble to clean-up the severed heads brought in from the battlefield and would even apply paints and cosmetics to them before putting them on display. (YUK!)

Well, if you feel powerful/dominant wearing heels, you will look powerful/dominant wearing them, if you feel submissive wearing heels, you will look submissive. It's in the 'aura' you exert.

Excellent point, Trolldeg. But in my personal opinion, most heel wearers tend to exude a more assertive aura than when they aren't wearing heels.

He has found out, and she thought that they broke when they fell from the top of the closet. But they were alreasy broken by me. So, tell me exactly to walk correctly, so i dont break it again.

At the risk of sounding redundant, you first need to get your own shoes that fit correctly. Improperly fitting shoes are a sure invitation to disaster; plus having yer own shoes reduces the possibility of personal tensions between you and yer mum, sister, or whoever's shoes you are "borrowing". Then you need to follow the advice of those who have already posted on this and in other threads about how to walk in heels. You need to remember that learning to walk in heels is not too different from learning how to ride a bike. It's not a natural thing and unless you are willing to take it easy and practice, you can expect a few tumbles. Also, you need to start out on the lower heels and work yer way up to the higher ones. Don't think you can start out walking on 5" or 6" stillettoes. Unless yer a very remarkable person, you will not be successful.

Well, I can see why these are not recommended for walking. They arrived this morning and I'm positive I won't be able to walk in them what so ever :-)

Unfortunately, I got the whole sizes thing mixed up with UK, US and European sizes, so I'm returning them to be exhanged for a smaller sized pair. They're way too large, even for me.

Anyway, these shoes are a size 12 US, 10 UK and the heel is exactly 17 cm, so well over 6.5 inches! No way I'm walking in these.

But boy, they look fabulous, sort of aggresive, but beautiful at the same time.

I'll keep you posted.

WobbleFan

Hey man, ya gotta watch that size thing. They'll do it to ya every time - especially when you've got to convert from one measuring system to another.

Wouldn't it be easier if we just scrapped the whole measuring system madness and went with one uniform measure that everybody could agree on? For example we could have something like a zotny that is equal to some precise measure - say 50000 angstroms - and then have everything measured in those terms. But even if we did, somebody would probably come along and screw that up too.

In light of the fact that high heeled footwear was first developed for riding/mounted military combat, it is doubtful that any kind of high heels can ever be totally disassociated from the authoritative image of military power. But certainly, nothing exudes this image more than the stilletto heel - particularly the stilletto boot! Over the years many women have made efforts to "dress down" this powerful authoritative image with things like espadrilles, cork wedgies, flowery accents and so on. But the very nature of high heels transmits a subliminal message of power. Question: What kind of image would we retain if the NAZIS (ergo, Hitler, Himler) wore high heels?

Boy,this is getting good. Wanta talk about how many people get killed going to the air port or in air planes? Check out how many people are killed by cigeretts just in America every year. four hundred fifty thous to five hundred thous. Some of them even wear heels.

Hi Lindsay, And allow me to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your action figure avatar. It ROCKS! Now please allow me to explain that in my experience, minds - like parachutes - work best when open. Unfortunately, none is so blind as he who will not see - as we have observed from the originator of this thread. So we will just have to be patient while he finishes making a spectacle of himself.

The results are now, statistically speaking, bimodally equivalent between 3" and 4".

The geometric mean is now 3.48". Call it three and a half.

We have a winner at 3.5" for a high heel!

Not so fast there. I scheduled the poll to run for 45 days. Not all the data is in yet.

I've re-read the story 3 times and there seems to be something missing. Were you supposed to wear the heels or were you demanding the wife wear 'em - or were you expecting your son to wear 'em? More importantly, what was the outcome?

Guy N. Heels, would you be willing to share some of the reasons why? It might help others learn more about why they wear heels in the first place.

At the risk of getting overly technical, we humans are governed by our brain functions. And while I am not a physician by any streach of the imagination, there are all kinds of things going on in the brain that absolutely dictate what we think and do. Some people call these things hormones, some call them endorphins and some call them other things. Personally, I don't care if you call 'em Wagi-wagi's, these things do exist and they work in very powerful ways. If you don't believe me, just take a good look at any teenage girl who can't seem to stop giggling. You are witnessing a case of her hormones - or Wagi-wagi's - going out of control.

Well, our emotions, particularly things that involve the ego, play an enormous role in the production of these hormones - Wagi-wagi's - that affect almost everything we do. There have been cases of very capable military leaders being rendered incompetent because of some enormous emotional upset. One example would be Robert E. Lee's reactions immediately after he learned of the death of "Stonewall" Jackson.

Other things that can have an enormous influence would include the weather and one's overall health or diet - all of which will impact the individual's production of hormones or Wagi-wagi's. Then, of course, there will be the "background stuff" like how things are going on the job, local and world affairs, and so-on, that will also have an effect. Moreover, it's not necessarily any one thing, but most often, the cumulative total of all of these influences that determines the kinds of hormones or Wagi-wagi's that our systems are producing and how we react to them.

Now these personal feelings will not orverride or delete one's predisposition to a given activity, i.e. if you like to go boating you most likely will, at least, have a latent desire to go boating. But things may have transpired in such a way that you just don't have any interest in the subject at the moment. For example, I love chocolate to the point of being a chocoholic. But I have seen times when I honestly couldn't get interested in a box of Godivas. In time, the desire for chocolate returned.

So with all of the above as a backdrop, how can wearing heels be any different? It's just another activity that we very complex humans engage in.

anything under 5 inch heels is not worth it.

So sorry that I couldn't accomodate you on the poll. I had listed heights up to 5" but all that was deleted when I posted. Apparently 10 items is all that can be accepted on a poll. So I'll put you down as one vote for 5". (Did you change the numbers in any way?)

Of course, as you can see for yourself, you're definitely in the minority in this poll.

Actually, my toes are permanently shaped like a pyramid from wearing my pointies for so long.

1. When I'm mad at someone it makes getting revenge easy. All I have to do is slide my shoe off and kick their tire. Whooosh.

2. It makes spinning like a ballerina, round and round on one toe, very easy.

3. I can type with two hands and open envelopes with my feet, they are so sharp and pointy.

4. Architects have to use a triangled ruler, I just use the edge of my feet.

5. Despite all this, I will always love my pointy shoes.

But you left out one of the most important ones - pointy toes are simply superb for crushing bugs that think they can escape into a corner! :rofl:

While loss of weight probably won't hurt, I'd suggest that your problem relates to poor quality of construction. It's getting harder and harder to find good quality anything these days.

OOOPS! We forgot to mention that there are "black holes" in cyberspace. These absorb all manner of extraneous and inane posts and then eject them in outgoing plumes of 1's and 0's. These 1's and 0's eventually form rings around large servers and make for some truly spectacular images. :rofl:

Hey Joe, It sounds to me like you've got a handle on it. While I can't agree with everything said, there's been a lot of good posts on this thread. The main point is that, at the end of the day, you have to be your own man. You simply cannot let someone else lead your life for you. Your choice of wearing high heels is a matter of fashion, not morals or religion. So stay in touch and let us know how things are going out your way.

Lessee here, Suicide terrorists have hijacked airplanes and changed the character of commercial aviation forever. If you can't understand that, then you need to wake-up & smell the coffee and take a look at the newspapers, buster. Dr1819 posts a rant in the Everybody forum and changes the character of this forum - for now. Wake up and smell the coffee. :x A Cessna has insufficent range to fly the Atlantic - well Lindburg did it, as well as "Wrongway Corrigan". So why can't you? Besides, exactly what all this has to do with heels is way beyond me.

"I sure do like the look of my new glasses; my new dentures fit just fine; My back and knees don't hurt too much; but I sure do miss my mind."

Good grief, folks. School is starting up all over the area and everyone's out buying school supplies. Maybe they'd better bring along their Christmas shopping list as well. We've got to get rolling on this Xmas music. Time's a wasting! Daylight's BURNING! :rofl: