Fog

Hang on - you said you were 15 earlier this year. You're telling utube you're 21. Make your mind up. Still got those broken heels though.

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I paid £7 for metal tips on my J-Los - more than I paid for the boots, but it was worth it. It does mean I have to be really careful crossing my front room floor though. I had a kind of attitude from the guy - a sort of exaggerated helpfulness. Just made me want to wear them there and then, so I did.

The goal of our administrative staff is to promote an open forum with respect to the wear of heels, but guard against this forum being overrun with either males or females, or other issues such as narcism, transvestic fetishism, etc....

I don't think there's much that you can do about the forum being over run by either males or females - not that there's much chance of the latter.

I am wondering where the other concerns come into the rules? I don't think it says anything about transvestic fetishism or narcism. Or is that just a personal view, which is fair enough. What I'd like to know is where is the dividing line between the personal view and moderatorial authority. And obviously I'm saying this knowing my post could be deleted if any one of the moderators thinks it's a breach of the rules.

That sounds simple. So you leave the brushes where they are and forget about sptting?

Totally off topic, but in a spirit of helpfulness I googled 'fetish shoes newcastle' and came up with this http://www.apotropaios.co.uk/june_swann_concealed_shoes.htm an essay on shoes hidden in buildings. Isn't the internet wonderful!

Found in Chicago Sun-Times:

"the "spy look": knee-high black boots under a short, fitted black winter coat and black tights. Sunglasses mandatory."

Wow! Sounds Hot to me.

Any Pictures?

Has anyone here tried Tesco's finest Islay Malt? It's around £13 a bottle and for that price not at all bad.

Hang on a cotton picking minute! Are we allowed to repeat?

DR - I take your point. This is might be too personal for the internet, but to cut a long story short - being small and slight - and having let's put it this way punishments at home that were more for the relief of my mother's anger than for my correction, my body language made me a target in school. Adulthood brought relief - and my usual way of avoiding conflict is to face down an agressor, knowing I might get severly thumped. It's only failed once, but it's generally very impressive. I won't go into the time it failed. Anyway - I'm glad I live in a relatively safe place, where most people don't have guns.

What I'm saddened by is all the macho attitudes coming to the fore on this forum. Perhaps it isn't the place for me.

Alright, now I'm on my high horse. I DONT like getting jumped.

A. MANY MANY MANY MANY of you um, genetic straight MEN

Yes you are on your high horse and it appears to me that you've got a bit of an attitude. There are a lot of genetic straight men on the forum, and a minority of genetic gay men. What exactly do you mean by "um"? IMHO a little more courtesy and a little less attitude would make your posts much more readable.

Please let us know the name and address of the planet yer on? The one I'm on has a very long history of wars and aggressions and is generally a very dangerous place to live. Just last month someone was shot to death less than 300 yards from my front door.

You know where I live, it says so by my name. I don't think self defence would have helped the unfortunate person who was shot. Having a less all pervasive gun culture might have though.

I also don't think wars do any good, apart from if you're a politician and that's not guaranteed. It helped Thatcher get a second term, and from that we can definitely say war's a bad thing.

Jolly good. Congratulations! Get some practice in first, but however much you practice indoors, the first time out will feel strange. There's no substitute for street miles. Good Luck!!

You guys obviously live in a different world from me. What is this all about? I'm an adult, I don't get into fights.

I was planning to meet up with anyone who's still around. In previous lunch meets, we've ended up at the Reef bar in Waterloo Station.

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Forget the scotch. I've just got through a bottle of Jurancon wonderful stuff - Mrs. F wasn't a lot of help - she had half a glass. Please ignore anything else I post tonight. Fog

Cheers HeelyAndy! I'm sat in them now!

I do have to say, when you do pluck up the courage and say "yes, do you mind if I try them on" you'll be buzzing for about 3 days afterwards! I love it!

Absolutely! And you'll avoid buying boots that don't fit or aren't comfortable.

Gee, Fog, this thread is a sharp departure from previous posts. Nothing wrong with it - just wondering if everything is ok back on the home front?

I wouldn't say a sharp departure - gradual evolution more like - life's a journey. I'm fascinated by heels and shorts, I've worn them out on occasions - if I knew how to put a link into a post on this new forum - cf the lunch thread in the meetings section.

I've also wanted to play with make up since I met a guy wearing full make up on the train and engaged him in conversation. I posted about it under the title Amazing Freestyler. We (Mrs. F and I both had makeovers before we went to the last London heelmet) which was fun to do it together. I'm not ready to go out with self applied make up though.

And, as I said at the top of the thread, I've been inspired by some of the guys who've put pictures up and wanted to try and emulate (but not copy) the likes of Harriet, Sexyplatforms, and the guy from Germany, who's links got deleted because there were one or two naughty pictures in one of his sets.

A lot of the photos were taken on the same weekend. I was home alone and that gave me the time to concentrate on what I was doing. The sky was a wonderful blue so I did some outside shots. My first idea was to try and record all the shoes I posess. That would take a while - there are a few boxes of boxes in the attic that I haven't yet located. I've also thought of doing a thread of Mrs. F's shoes. There are very few pictures of partners on this forum - so I'm still unsure about that.

I've had a bit of fun with the camera, and taking a picture is one step beyond giving yourself a good look up and down in the mirror. If people like the pictures they sometimes say - people are very kind on this forum, I presume when they don't like something they say nothing, and it would take something that people really don't like to produce an adverse comment.

For me the whole heely thing is as much about personal development as anything else. I've realised that if I want to wear heels or whatever else I can and as long as I'm not hurting anyone else that's up to me. Its about freedom. That's why I don't take kindly to people on the board setting out rules for how to wear heels so that it will be acceptable manly attire and help promote the cause. I'm not particularly worried about people supposing that I'm gay, as far as I'm concerned it's not an insult merely a mistake. I am troubled by the number of guys on the board who take a contrary view, but that's another topic altogether.

The only person who's views I really take into account is Mrs. F. I don't want her to be worried by thoughts that our friends or neighbours think I'm a lunatic or weirdo. I'm confident that I get on with most people and real friends would overlook my heeling/dressing up as a harmless eccentricity.

I'd love to get out and about to do some shots, but that would take some organising. The camera I've got really needs a tripod, and even with it you need the timer to make certain that it's still. I'd have to be confident that I wouldn't loose it.

An interesting question linked, in a curious way, to the word freestyler would be. Are you interested in fashion?

I know I’m going to get some flack over this. Not all of us a brave enough to venture out in a skirt. The closest I get to wearing a skirt is a sarong.

I don't know why you should get flack because you don't want to wear a skirt. It's up to you, isn't that the essence of freestyling? Despite what is an often stated view on this forum a skirt is regarded widely as a female garment. I'm not saying that in many cultures that men don't wear unbifurcated garments, but, Western society regards a skirt as a female garment. So really it's up to you. If it's something you really, really want to do it's a shame that you're letting your fears stop you. You've also got to take a good long look at yourself in the mirror.

For myself I have fancied it, but I look daft in a skirt.

Please don't let that bad experience put you off. People will look, but most of it isn't negative, it's just that you don't see guys in heels every day. Last week was the first time I've seen a heeled guy and it came as a surprise to me! A couple of years ago there was an interesting thread that ran and ran. ~Worst and best experiences when wearing heels. I'm not sure how to link to it on the new forum - I had a sticky experience which is recorded on P12. But there's something about the freedom that wearing heels gives you just makes me want to carry on.

Forgot about the four picture rule!

Here I've teamed them with the other pair of shorts I got at the same time, and a Laura Ashley blouse of Mrs. F's from the 80s.