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Micha, let me extend my condolences on the loss of your friend. It is a shock when one is taken away abruptly and words are so empty and meaningless against the void left by the departed person.

With the sharply pointed toes, the stiletto heels and the bullet loops, those black ammunition carriers are threats in at least three ways! With a price tag around $1000 (US), make that a four-way threat! Wow!

For those of us on this side of the big puddle:

"Internal Revenue Service"

Just who exactly are they serving?

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Greetings and Welcome from another ex-"lurker". I lurked around the old board for almost two years before I registered and now I am sneaking up on 600 posts! "Lurking" is OK, you can learn a lot that way but being an active member is so much more rewarding. There are a lot of interesting people here and as an active member you can interact with them. Welcome aboard!

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A trick that works on a wider heel is to glue a piece of inner-tube rubber to the heel. Cut the rubber to the shape of the heel and glue it on with "contact cement" (DAP Weldwood or Pliobond). Coat the heel and the rubber piece with cement and let both dry until they are no longer tacky to the touch. Then apply a thin film of cement to one of the pieces and join them. Get them aligned properly the first time because you will not get a second chance -- the bond forms instantly. The rubber acts as a shock absorber and makes for a quieter walk. There is not much hope (or reason) to quiet a stiletto heel -- they are supposed to make that delicious sound! And any attempt to quiet them will involve attaching some softer material that will wear out quickly.

I had to make a "panic run" to the local Wal-Mart last night. (In my lexicon, a "panic run" is a quick run to a store to get something you have just discovered you need. They generally take place in the middle of a project and can be the result of a broken tool, running out of something, or a sudden flash of insight.) In this case I needed some grocery items. I went in the same clothing I was wearing around the house, bright fire-engine red sweatpants and a "baja" shirt with bright vertical red, white, navy blue, and hunter-green stripes. I may have been a little more obvious had I been clad in a neon sign but not much! These particular sweatpants do not have the elastic gather at the bottoms of the legs, rather they are hemmed like normal pants. I decided to go "whole-hog" so my shoes were a pair of 4" block heeled platform loafers from Payless a few years back. They are actually quite comfortable and stable under my feet. They should be stable, the heels are huge! The heels and soles are mostly neoprene-type rubber and they feel a little bit "squishy" as I walk -- they absorb a whole lot of shock! These shoes look a lot like the platforms many guys wore back in the 70's. About half the heel was visible. Nobody batted an eyelash.

How would I react? Stunned amazement mixed with wide-eyed admiration, and a valiant-if-unsuccessful attempt not to stare! . . .to both the ballets and the pumps.

I have seen sandals referred to as pumps (on places like eBay) by sellers who clearly do not know anything about what they are selling.

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Yup, another railfan here -- for as long as I can remember. It even pre-dates my "heelfan" status (if you will pardon me coining a word).

octahedron (Sorry for replying to my own post but I had to wake this back up.)

unknown (OK, just learned something. The new board S/W does not seem to like posts less than 10 characters in length. We are probably going to have to get creative in these word game threads.)

Well, the board looks different and feels different. But a lot of our interesting members have found it and resumed posting, so the old back-and-forth is here. I hope the rest of our membership finds their way here. We can get accustomed to the new look-and-feel. I daresay we will all appreciate less downtime, better accessibility and more involved administration. I am not faulting Jeff but I do get the impression that other, more serious endeavors have distracted him from this board. Maybe it was time for a change. I am holding out hope that this board will find itself re-invigorated as a result of this move. And that's really all that matters here.

We like how they feel and they are so much more interesting!

Cool! -- the board's back!! I was starting to go into withdrawal It looks good too, and let's all hope things run a little better here. It might be a good idea to post a link at the old board site to point users here until they get their bookmarks updated.

charlemaine -- You may be experiencing a difference in fit also. Each shoe has a fit all its own -- even different styles in the same size from the same manufacturer can fit differently. With flat, boring, clompy, standard-issue men's shoes this difference in fit is not usually noticed. But when you elevate the heel proper fitting becomes all that much more critical. Getting a pair that really fits well seems to be a bit of a "crap shoot" even if you do have the opportunity to try them on -- sometimes poor fit does not show up until after some wearing time. Just another of the charms and challenges of high heels!

Sscotty -- Do your heels slide up and out of the shoe as you walk? It looks like there is not much of the shoe left to hug the heel with all that space taken up by the insert.

. . . How do you get that little picture under your name whar you post?. . .

That little picture is an "avatar". It is an image file that resides on a server somewhere accessible on the Internet. A lot of members here use Photobucket to host images, some of our ISP's include Web-space in their Internet deals. Whatever you use for image hosting, just enter the URL of your avatar image in your "profile" page. Please keep avatars small--no larger than 163 pixels wide by 110 pixels high to prevent your avatar from messing up the composition of forum pages on everybody's screen. There are a number of software packages that can be used to re-size an image.

This mechanism is similar to that which is used to post pictures here on the board -- the image is hosted on another server somewhere and your post contains a link to that image.

If there was an option for "I wear heels around the house a lot, and outside occasionally" I'd vote for that one.

I'll second that. The other options don't really fit me well.

Hell's Angels (a motorcycle club from this side of the puddle)