Aiming High - Practicing in Heels

[Shyheels]

25 minutes ago, higherheels said:

You mean 10 cm, right? 😉

Nah, I’ve just gotten incredibly gifted at high heels! 😂

28 minutes ago, higherheels said:

And the good thing about heels is that I can still vary between so many styles, so it never gets boring.

That’s what I like about heels! They are always fun, never boring and there are so many interesting styles and heights - even if you just wear boots like I do!

[higherheels]

3 hours ago, Shyheels said:

Nah, I’ve just gotten incredibly gifted at high heels! 😂

Haha, now that came quickly! No longer practicing in these low 12 cm boots, 20 cm is the new thing 😄

[Shyheels]

The only way I’d ever manage 20cm is if I added together the heels on my 10cm boots …

[Cali]

I wear my heels 12 hours on most days and sometimes 16 hours. Only time I'm in flats is when I'm barefooted or working in my garden or kayaking or skiing.

Today its my Nine West Samreno suede block heeled knee highs, 10 cm.

 

Edited Monday at 08:37 PM by Cali

[Shyheels]

One thing I have been so pleased about as a result of this high heel challenge is the  ease with which I now get about in my 10cm stilettos. While I am slowly getting better in my 12cm ones, the improvement at the 10cm height is really gratifying and noticeable - so much so that I find myself tempted simply to wear my 10cm boots for the sheer joy of it, at the expense of practicing with my 12cm ones.

The past two days I’ve been wearing them 12 hours a day - admittedly not walking much, just puttering about, making meals and coffee and writing at my desk, but being in 10cm stilettos is starting to feel natural and intuitive. I like it

[Puffer]

On 11/23/2025 at 4:55 PM, Shyheels said:

Yes four inch heels does have a ring to it. Here in Britain we use both measurements regularly. Our speed limit signs are in mph, but we guy our food in grams and kilos. We measure our height in feet and inches and talk about our weight in pounds and stone. Screws and bolts are metric, as are most tools. We buy petrol in litres but talk of miles per gallon. It can be weird.

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UK anachronisms also include: milk bought in either pints or litres (according to the seller); beer on draught in pints but when in cans or bottles it is metric (330, 440 or 500 ml etc).   Timber sold in length increments of 300mm (the 'metric foot') and plasterboard which was 8' x 4' now 'shrunk' to 2400 x 1200mm, but most other sheet material (e.g. MDF, plywood) still 2440 x 1220mm (equivalent to 8' x 4')!   And model railways, for example, are commonly built to a scale of 4mm:1 foot (UK) or 3.5mm:1 foot (US and Europe), both using a track gauge of 16.5mm (which is therefore too narrow to represent standard gauge of 4' 8.5" in the UK but almost spot-on for US/Europe models).  You need your wits about you when doing construction work or model-making, but we are used to the mixture.    I still 'think better' in imperial when doing joinery or plumbing etc but will often use millimetres when dealing with small measurements, as working in, say, 64ths of an inch is rather tiresome.

[higherheels]

15 hours ago, Cali said:

Only time I'm in flats is when I'm barefooted or working in my garden or kayaking or skiing.

Pretty much the same for me except I don't do kayaking.

 

@Shyheels Yes that's the great thing about it. I never had a problem with 12 cm heels, but now they become even more comfortable.

 

Now I'm even more confused about units in the UK, it probably can't get more complicated 😀

[Shyheels]

 

19 minutes ago, higherheels said:

Yes that's the great thing about it. I never had a problem with 12 cm heels, but now they become even more comfortable.

I’m so looking forward to being able to say the same about 12cm heels! 

[mlroseplant]

On a typical weekday, I spend anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour, but averaging 45 minutes, walking in heels of 8 to 11 cm, depending upon the weather and my mood. I then effectively spend the next 12 hours in work boots, by the time you add in lunch and commuting each way. With my feet the way they are, I always bring a second pair of socks, which I change at lunch. If I do not do this, I am miserable all afternoon. If I had to go 16 hours in boots, I'd go through three pairs of socks a day.

Unless I have somewhere to go after work, such as church choir rehearsal or the occasional special event, I have various slip-on sandals that I use as house slippers, but all are 7 cm or less. That is why I wonder what my life would be like if I could wear heels to work every day, such as the red patent Via Spiga shoes I wore Sunday.

[higherheels]

Ah, of course if you have to wear specific work shoes you don't have that much time left for heels.

I have an office job so I can wear whatever I want at work, that's a plus when it comes to heels.

[Shyheels]

I have the luxury of being self employed so when I am not travelling on assignment I am working from my kitchen table and can wear whatever I please. Theoretically I can wear whatever I please on assignments, but most of my assignments are in wild remote areas where hiking boots or engineering boots are the only sensible option. Even then, though, I do have some knee boots with the right soles 

[Cali]

I'm more like @higherheels, I have a professional job so I can wear what I want at home and when I go in, and for me that's high heels.

[Shyheels]

Yes but your job doesn’t take you to Antarctica, Papua New Guinea, Chad or the Darien Gap - mine does and heels are not useful in those places, but otherwise I’m in heels at work, and since I’ve largely stopped travelling, in heels full time!