jmc

The great state of Michigan with even crappier weather. Oh, well -- stay inside and wear heels!

Welcome aboard, wyatt973! We all love some facet of high heels here.

Welcome aboard, lindaheels! We all have our own preferences for heel type but boots and pumps (or courts) will strike a chord with the majority of members here.

johnieheel is essentially correct on posting images. You cannot embed an image directly in your post, rather you must place the image somewhere else that is accessible via the Internet. Photobucket is a good choice, there's also Imageshack and flickr. You will have to set up an account with one of these -- I can personally attest that signing up with Photobucket is easy.

When you have an image hosting service, you can upload your pictures to their server. Each service has a help page telling you how.

Then you insert the link to your picture inside ',' tags. These are really easy to generate using the "insert image" button above the editor.

You really want to host images from an account that is under your control so you have control over your content, rather than having someone else do it for you.

Welcome back Gina! We have missed you! You are lovely as always.

Those are very cute.

Hey JeffB -- good to see you back! Some of us were getting a little worried.

Welcome aboard, spandexsyn!

Welcome back Dawn!! You can't keep a good heeler down!

Congratulations! Those boots are amazing.

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Not true. Follow the link above.

I guess I did not underscore the word "Theoretically" with enough emphasis. The "biologically inert" idea comes from the manufacturers of silicones and they seem to have backed off from it since the breast implant lawsuits. Your links illustrate quite graphically that the theory does not hold. This stuff is dangerous.

. . . But I just wanted to say that I notice the board has gotten kinda of conservative or at least a tad bit more stirct which I know is because you want a better image for the site which I think is great. . .

Please let me add my two cent's worth here (feel free to convert to local monetary units as necessary)--

I think the apparent conservatism in this board stems from two sources:

1). The new administration is enforcing rules that have always been present. This is especially true for rules with respect to decency -- the hosting service for the old board had some rather strict and well-defined rules in this area and we had to toe the line. Trouble was, the existing administration had reached a point where other life pursuits had overtaken this board and a lot of stuff was "slipping through". This allowed some members to cultivate bad habits, habits that now need to be broken.

2). As I understand the situation, we (meaning the administration) want this board to be a kind of "gateway portal" for anybody who has an interest in high heels. Whatever your gender, if you are into heels you can come here and find something of interest. Your own personal interest may take you beyond the scope of this board but this is a place to start. There are a lot of other heel sites out there.

As an example, take my own personal experience. I found this board some five years ago after a Web search for "men wearing high heels". Had I found a great number of pictures showing genitalia or the like, I probably would have clicked my way out of here never to return. (It does not serve us well to "scare off" new members with overly graphic content.)

After about a year and a half of "lurking" I decided to register and begin posting. But as I readied myself to "take the plunge" a veritable "war between the sexes" broke out because women felt their forum was being invaded. Many of our celebrated female members left during that fracas and have not been heard from since. We are hopeful that enforcement of the rules and keeping guys out of the "for the gals" forum will make this board more female-friendly and keep more women around.

Now as much as we guys like our heels, you cannot really have a well-rounded discussion of high heels without including input from women. And if keeping the ladies interested here means letting them have a place of their own, I do not think that is too much to ask. Most of us are actually straight guys so we enjoy having the women around!

Ohhh, Yeahhh! Definitely strikes a chord! When we hear a woman talk about her out-of-control shoe fetish (usually we overhear it when she is talking to her girlfriends), I think we can all relate.

Nothing at all wrong with the lower heels -- and those are nice ones.

Maybe I'm overly optimistic but I interpret the "Streetheel vibe" as a sign of progress. More of us are trying it, liking it, getting excited about it, and want to talk about it. If streetheeling is not "your bag", no sweat. Enjoy heels as you see fit!

You might try walking around on concrete -- like a garage floor -- to roughen up the soles a little.

"faux leather" or "vegetarian leather" -- Do you suppose they are using those "euphemisms" just so they can sneak that word "leather" in there -- even though the product being advertised is not leather? It is a sleight-of-hand on the part of marketers.

Nice.

I dont think I have the guts to walk into a shoe shop and purchase heels lol

It is terrifying the first couple of times you do it. But the shops are there to sell shoes and if you're buying, most of them don't care.

That said, I still do most of my buying online. I still get nervous buying heels in a brick-and-mortar store.

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Life is too short to walk around in ugly shoes!

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My sentiments exactly!

Welcome aboard, Tina!

Just another of those "feminine wiles" that they know drives us crazy! Keep it up, ladies -- we love it!

This may be just a little off-topic, but as a rule, women dress for other WOMEN! Indeed, it is a rare woman and a rare circumstance when a woman dresses either for herself or for her man. It occurs to me that if women were more interested in how men dressed, perhaps men wearing heels might actually be in fashion.

Come to think of it, when women "dress" for men, does it not generally result in less clothing ???

It occurs to me that my country has done nothing but prolong the agony when it comes to standard units of measure. Officially we are metric but that really only applies if you are dealing directly with the government. All shade-tree mechanics have two sets of tools -- one inch and the other metric. Most of our cars use both types of fasteners -- so the ony real effect is we make twice as many trips to the toolbox!

I don't see an end to this madness anytime soon, either.

Go to Sears, by a set of Metric tools for less than $200, buy and read the $35 Chilton's for your vehicle, and learn to enjoy the momemt!

Amd be kind with respect to yur family, other than the fact that American's arrive to late, depending they think it's the money.

. . .but then I've also been known to just leave out a pair that I like so that I can admire them. I think it's less of a narcissistic thing than just enjoying looking at (in my opinion) a beautiful pair of heels.

Chris

I do that too -- like a decoration.

Come to think of it, there are a few artists who specialize in images or sculptures of shoes -- and they are always high heels. I've never heard of anybody turning a men's clod-hopper into a work of art!

. . .What do you think??

I think those boots are absolutely gorgeous! Wear them with joy and pride and know that Gary's a lucky guy. (And he knows it.)