No Cordwainer Yet

[CrushedVamp]

As way of introduction on here, I thought I would tell the members of this site that my username “Crushed Vamp” has no particular funny story behind it, other than it seemed an appropriate username for a high heeled forum. If nothing else I guess, it tells people I know the various parts of a high heel.

I have always liked high heels though, in particular combined with stockings, a dress or short skirt, and an ankle bracelet. Fortunately I have a wife that likes to dress up for most occasions and loves her high heels. When she was formerly married to a very short man inch which she would be higher than him in wearing high heels, he forbid her to wear them. Since height is not an issue with me, she has gone all-out on high heel purchases and has every style, type, color and variation there is with her 200 plus pairs. While less in number she has thigh high, knee high and booties with high heels and will wear them if the mood strikes her. It is enough that she has a walk-in closet just for her shoe collection. We affectionately call it her "shoe barn".

Myself, I do not wear high heels although I am glad to see men wrestle the high heel back to our gender from its inception some four hundred years ago. My love of them is enough that on my bucket list someday is crafting a pair for my wife to wear. I am not a cordwainer by trade, but do have some woodworking, leather and metalworking skills so do think I could make a custom pair. Considering my love of high heels, I think that would be a gratifying accomplishment. I am not sure how they would fit, or how comfortable they would be, but it would be fun to learn a new skill I think and who knows, form a new hobby?

[Shyheels]

I'd not noticed your post before. I'd wondered about your username. Mine is more self explanatory - and suited me better when I first joined here nearly 11 years ago (next month) I am much less shy now about wearing heels. 

It sounds like an interesting ambition to fashion a pair of heels for your wife. A friend of mine is a bookmaker and I am in awe of his skills both in terms of design and abilities to create with his hands. Shoe 0r boot making is a real art. 

[CrushedVamp]

11 hours ago, Shyheels said:

I'd not noticed your post before. I'd wondered about your username. Mine is more self explanatory - and suited me better when I first joined here nearly 11 years ago (next month) I am much less shy now about wearing heels. 

It sounds like an interesting ambition to fashion a pair of heels for your wife. A friend of mine is a bookmaker and I am in awe of his skills both in terms of design and abilities to create with his hands. Shoe 0r boot making is a real art. 

Thank you for your kind words. In most forums today just about every applicable username has been taken, so other than adding some random numbers to an otherwise overly used username, I have found combining something negative (crushed) with some element of the forum (vamp) is an adaption many users over the years have never thought of. Hence CrushedVamp...

Interesting in that bookbinding is a business for me and why leathercraft, woodworking and much less so... metal working, are some skills I have. I prefer the term bookbinding but admit in modern speak it is a "publishing company".

As for wearing high heels myself... well who knows? I am slowly finding out that I might not be as strange as I considered myself. I have had long held beliefs on what other men did and am finding out I have been quite wrong. I have gotten pedicures for years and just recently found out, a true friend of mine... a mans-man in every way possible... does as well. Who would have thought? And my dislike of body hair, I shave shaved almost all of me for years, but just recently found out some 15% of men do. From a practical standpoint, making a pair of high heels fit me comfortably makes things much easier than using my wife as a sounding board for fit and finish. After one is crafted then knowing what to do, I could turn my attention to a pair of high heels for her.

 

[Shyheels]

Bookbinding is a fabulous craft. I always envy people who can create with their hands. I write and take photos - creating abstract things, really, images and words rather than physical objects. I think it must be lovely to create an object, something tangible.

I never imagined I would actually wear heels one day or own several pairs of feminine style boots - both with and without heels. I’d always fancied the women’s boots since childhood but could never summon the nerve to buy or wear them, or even imagine doing such a thing until a few years ago. My tastes are still quite conservative by the standards of most of the people here - not because I don’t dare push the envelope but because those are genuinely my tastes - knee boots with low to medium heels.

I suspect there are far more men out there who fancy wearing heels than we can know, most of them keeping it under their hat - as I did for many years. I’ve no interest in manicures or pedicures or shaving or any of that, just a predilection for feminine e style boots

it’s a very friendly forum with quite diverse characters and tastes, but all very tolerant and good natured.