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This is worth a cursory look.

http://www.shoomagazine.com/

Xa

Mél.

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Posté le: Ven Oct 08, 2004 6:02 pm Sujet du message:

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MI21 avait donne ce lien dans un autre topic

http://www.hhplace.org/

...egalement en anglais

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La vie est trop courte, profitons-en au maximum pour porter ce qui nous plait.

Revenir en haut

Vanessa

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Posté le: Sam Oct 09, 2004 1:16 pm Sujet du message:

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Salut Basch,

absolument superbe ce site !

Desmanequins males en robe et escarpins, les mentalites ont serieusement evoluees.

Je vais passer la reference aux amis du site hhplace (anglais).

Encore merci pour cette trouvaille.

Vanessa

Il n'est pas necessaire dire autre-chose. .... Xa

... the previous version was just too cumbersome (and possibly plain wrong ! )

http://www.c-tendance.com/forum/index.php

There's a whole subsection on shoes. We even get a mention in there !

http://www.c-tendance.com/forum/ftopic1552-0-asc-10.php

Time to dust off your French, guys !

Xa

Up to about 1966, an inch was 2.539996 cm. Scientists realised that nobody was using imperial units for really accurate measurements, so the inch was re-defined in terms of centimetres as 2.54 cm exactly. OK this gave you slightly more curtain material when you bought it by the yard (36 inches), so the seller made about 1 part in a million less profit, but, hey, the material is going to stretch more than that ! Xa

Sexyplatforms:-)

I'm not a devotee to platform shoes as such, but I would still like to welcome you to the HH Place Forum. I'm very interested in hearing of your public exploits and I always enjoy looking at pics and reading great heeling stories while out and about. Welcome again. Cheers---

Dawn HH

Hi, SP,

Come along to a heelmeet and show us what we are missing with your plats.

There might be a bit of mickey take from the non-plat types, much, I guess, like the Brit-s**t, Jap-crap argument I have with the guy around the corner with a Landrover ( I run a Japanese 4wd), but hey, we're all guys into the heely thing, so we have a whole load of public out there to educate that we're fairly ordinary guys and not supposed child molesters (or worse) !

Xa

Nicely done .... you have good legs too which helps with the overall look. Enjoy your time here. Xa

I hope whoever loaded spyware onto this computer really enjoys reading all the trivial garbage that pulls joe public's chain. ..... cos the computer is in a public library. Xa

I've been having a clear out, and found a whole load of flyers from my shy-mode days when I used to go to fetish clubs to do my heeling.

Now, there's a lot of stuff which is pretty raunchy, which is not appropriate here, but the few bits I have saved typify the sort of community I think we are.

....... and this is a printable pic (one of the mildest) of the sort of community that I think we are not.

The question I ask is, where is the dividing line between great interest in heels (eccentric), heel fetishism (somewhat unhealthy), and other interests which may be considered extreme by some.

I don't think there is any hard and fast boundary, but it would be interesting to have your thoughts.

Xa

Ouch, I have some tidying up to do.

I'll repair the links soon, but to be getting on with ....

Sometime before the hack, one of the board members remarked on my 1980 'tube' pull-on boots which I bought in a thrift shop in 1992 .... well, a couple of days ago, in another thrift shop, I FOUND AN IDENTICAL PAIR !

They havn't been worn that much, but I think that the woman who had them wasn't very good with heels, because the tips were pretty bad.

I replaced them, but the old tips were glued directly to the nylon heel moulding with some special glue. After a short time the polyurethane glue I used came adrift from the nylon. Any ideas for a decent glue ????

Once I get this sorted, I'll be on cloud nine.

Xa

Yes, Autumn would be nice. If all goes well (ha ha) I should have moved into the Mk n domicile near Norwich by then. Now, it's a relatively short hop from Norwich airport to Amsterdam, or we could take a car on the ferry from Harwich. Xa

The rule of thumb, if I remember Laurie saying so, is:- The stockings should be lighter colour than the shoes. Some time ago, I was at Heelfan's new place with Firefox, and I demonstrated a pair of turquoise Missoni courts with a black stocking on one leg, and a 'grey smoke' stocking on the other. The effect with the lighter stocking was much more pleasing. Xa

Well done .... From small acorns, great oaks grow. Xa

Now, just what the hell has a pic of a pair of heels in the top right hand of this webpage got to do with it ?

http://www.morganstanleycard.co.uk/uk/data/card/platinum/plat.html

..... as if I didn't know !

Xa

BTW, by posting this link, I make no endorsement of the product advertised.

Anglian Water told us that they believed that the issues surrounding the disposal of sewage sludge to land "are as much about public perception as they are about scientific opinion".[337] Investigations they had commissioned showed "recycling to land is the best practicable environmental option" and they called upon the Government to help them promote the advantages to potential users and interest groups.[338] Public acceptance is not helped, they said, by using terms such as "sewage sludge" which have negative connotations of smell and dirt; using the technical term "biosolids" would go some way to allay public anxiety.

..... so I wonder what the politically correct word for 'horseshit' is ?

Xa

PS ....

The above was found during my searches for info regarding sewage disposal at the proposed Xaphod Mk4 residence. OK, you lot, if we have a heely weekend here, you can't create more than 2 m^3 of sewage per day, or the Environment Agency will take your heels away.

OK, it looks like I have lots of pics to re-submit. Thankfully I stored them somewhere safe ! Xa

HI, Dude, Get back to us when you are more certain of the dates. I'm relatively uncommitted around that time, so I can change dates if necessary. Xa

Gene I suggest that we make it the 3rd weekend in September. The Winter boot styles will be in the shops and Summer styles should be on sale. Oh, BTW, this should really go in the 'Meetings' section. Xa

Tell me where he's spamming, and I'll try to clobber it. Xa (moderator mode)

Ruud .... E-J Play nice, please. Just learn to accept that you both have different opinions. Xa (moderator mode)

Xaphod:-)

I agree that it is good to see a lot of new members joining us lately. See what happens when you are away for a spell. Welcome back.

Cheers---

Dawn HH

..... hmmm I hope that this doesn't mean something ominous.

Funny thing, it always happens this way with me. A few years ago, I bummed around Italy for a month. When I got back to the UK, I found that 3 of my long-term batchelor friends had all got steady girlfriends.

Xa

Yup, I'm with Trolldeg .... 5.5" I have a pair of Fuss 6.25" which I can get about in, but with very short steps, so I think that these don't count. Xa

I've been away for a couple of weeks. All I can say is WOW ..... it's good to see all these new people. Enjoy, Xa

Hi Dude,

Whilst I am not looking to make this into a Euro Heel Meet, as you started this thread, you are the only one that can change the title of it, I wonder if any other folk might come out of the woodwork if you changed the name of the thread to 'Amsterdam Heel Meet April 2005'

Guys, I have booked the time off know and I am starting to look for hotels and flights, I am going to see if I can use some of my air miles to reduce the cost.

Let me know if you can do the 11th, 12th, 13th of April.

thanks,

Nigel.

OK, I agree, that's committed dates for me.

Xa ..... back from hols

Yes, April is fine for me. I might have just moved house then, but I can always leave it full of un-emptied boxes. Xa

There are lots of books out there on heels. I thought a new topic, reviewing them would be a good idea.

I saw a brief review in The Independent a while back and ordered this book through interlibrary loan (cost me £1.85).

Stiletto by Caroline Cox Mitchell Beasley. ISBN 1 84000 906 3

The Independent described this book as ideal for heel addicts, a review of the stiletto heel from it's inception to the present day. At a price of £30 I wasn't going to buy it on the basis of this description alone. Yes, as a 'Coffee Table' volume it has a place, but, for the price IMHO, it aint worth it.

As I half expected, there was a load of psychobabble regurgitated from previous authors (the bibliography is impressive), together with a good selection of quality heely pictures. I think the research might have been carried out a little more carefully, for example 'Paula Sanchez' from 'John Willie's Bizarre' is quoted as an authoritative source. It's a pity that Ms Cox failed to notice that Paula Sanchez has a mighty strange writing style for a woman, but a remarkably similar style to, funnily enough, John Willie's editorial spot !

OK, guys in the UK, if you want to borrow the copy from the library, I know of at least one in the UK ..... if your librarian hums and hahs, tell them that Larkhill library, Queen's Drive, Liverpool, has one.

Xa