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Wow. This should be #300 and with it comes a pair of REAL HEELS! I can hear 'em now :-)

Beautiful as ever, Gina!

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Mind you, the whole concept is disgusting but I think it's the holes that put these Crocs clogs under the bottom for me. (I was going to say "over the top" but these things are definitely a low point in footwear fashion.) Back to the holes. I guess the holes are for ventilation but they make these monstrosities look like Wiffle balls squashed vaguely into the shape of shoes. Why anybody would want to walk around with their feet stuffed into a pair of Wiffle balls I'll never know.

You are going to put yourself under a tremendous amount of pressure if you are not accustomed to street heeling and wearing a skirt in public. It is probably not the best idea when dealing with airport security as Nigel already said. Flying is stressful enough as it is. A better plan would be to pack the heels and skirt and get in a little wearing at the hotel. Hotel rooms are so boring anyway.

Wonder if he lurks among us?

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Shoe sizing seems to be an inexact science at best and it is frequently a topic of discussion around here. There is a fairly recent thread on the subject here: http://www.hhplace.org/hhboard/viewtopic.php?t=5836. Sizing is always a guessing game because each manufacturer seems to have its own system. Even two different styles from the same manufacturer may fit significantly differently even though they are the same size. It really makes life interesting for those of us who buy from catalogs or online.

fury

Isn't anticipation a killer? -- waiting and waiting and waiting for "that package" to arrive?

Hey, was that the UPS truck?

EsteeM

Hi Phoenix and welcome aboard. I know the "lurker-to-poster" path well, been down it myself. I lurked around here for more than a year before I worked up the guts to register and start posting. As far as re-sizing pictures, there is usually a software package that comes on a CD with the digital camera. It will be Roxio or MGI Photosuite or something like that, or Photoshop. There will be a menu command to "re-size" a photo, search the help file for "re-size". Note that this is not the same as cropping, re-sizing a picture re-interpolates the pixels to produce a picture at a different (lower) resolution. The file size will be a lot smaller too although you will noticeably lose picture quality -- mostly in the form of sharpness. But most modern digital cameras can shoot at dizzying resolutions like 2500 x 1700 or higher and pictures at full resolution take bloody ages to download -- especially through a dial-up connection. For Internet use you probably do not want to go above 640 x 480 resolution -- and for an avatar you want to go MUCH smaller. There is a post somewhere around here that tells the maximum size for avatar pictures. Big avatars really screw up the formatting of the pages. You can probably set your camera to shoot at 640 x 480 too. At that setting you will be able to take thousands of pictures on a 1G card but they will never be any better than 640 x 480 resolution. I prefer to shoot at the best resolution my camera can support and then down-sample (re-size) the pictures if I need them smaller. If I use the pictures in another way (such as printing them or viewing them on a high-resolution monitor) I still have the high-res originals. All this from a guy who has yet to post a picture here!

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EinsteiN --(who proved to us all that everything is relative.)

Hi Louise and welcome back! I think I can explain the disappearance of your username -- this board has been under siege by a bunch of spammers over the last several months. They post loads of drivel about pharmaceuticals, pornography, financial deals, communications and what-not -- nonsense that nobody in their right mind would pursue when offered by some unknown fly-by-night entity on the other side of the world! One particularly aggressive spam-removal session inadvertently deleted a number of valid user logins -- yours was probably one of them. On behalf of the moderators I extend a heartfelt apology. Despite all this madness we all proceed, step by step (in something tasteful with a nice heel whenever possible). It is very heartening to all of us when a nice young lady joins us in our interests.

NirvanA

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