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Oh, I am quite sure I shall enjoy my foray into heels! A high heeled boot is certainly aesthetically pleasing and I’ve no doubt wearing a pair of stiletto boots will add something - a greater sense of adventure and the forbidden. My first recollection of liking boots concerned go-go boots on a very pretty red haired girl in my seventh grade class, 1969-70... I don’t recall if they had heels or not. I think not...

Speed is just what you need with sabre - or indeed any of the weapons. Sabres themselves are lightweight. In term of that there is little difference between foil and sabre. Epee is a bit heavier, with the much bigger, chunkier guard. But the weight of the weapons themselves is not really a consideration. You'd be fine. Hopefully the homestead will get sorted out. In terms of investing in boots look at it this way - having spent the money you will be focussed on getting the best possible use out of your boots and find all sorts of wonderful perfectly valid reasons to make expeditions out and about in them!

It is a concern, whether for high heels or any other innocent measurable freedoms we have always taken for granted. Social media is a force that allows handfuls of noisy Twitter users to exert influence over society that far exceed their actual numbers; it allows a vocal (tiny) minority to bully the population at large, with risk averse corporations (and their lawyers) only too ready to fall into line in the wake of the dreaded "Twitter storm". It takes nothing these days to start a stampede.

FASCINATING discussion here, folks. I definitely echo most of the sentiments here. Nice to see it put into words.