Shyheels

I guess it is a bit like seeing people who are seven feet tall - they are out there, but you just don't see them often.

I can understand the feeling. My otk boots are quite pricey and made out of very luxuriant suede; I just don't dare wear them outside for fear something will spill/stain/ruin them. Perhaps I'm being silly, but there we are. My wife is similarly concerned about them - if I a wearing them when we are making dinner she usually insistsI remove them as she doesn't want to be the one who splashes spaghetti sauce on them (not that she is recklessly strewing spaghetti sauce around the kitchen!)

Hideous, truly hideous...

I am very much a boots guy. And that has nothing todo with heels. My default footwear for decades has been hiking boots. Except for cycling and the gym I do not wear shoes at all. Boots with block heels can be fairly masculine. I tend to go for knee or otk boots though which is more of a challenge...

It is very early days. It is nothing Would even remotely want to bring up at this point Personally I would be fine with it. I would never want to do anything that would embarrass her though.

Pleasingly enough my wife actually likes my stiletto boots coupled with my skinny jeans. I am not wearing them out though - if for no other reason than need to become much more graceful!

I have a small wardrobe and so not much room to accumulate things. My three pair of otk boots and now my stiletto boots take up much a lot of the space. If/when I go ahead and buy myself a pair of stiletto ankle bootsI will pretty much have reached saturation point, I think.

Sounds very promising. I have only a few pairs - three suede low-heeled otk boots, and my newest acquisition, a pair of stiletto knee boots. Hope to acquire a pair of stiletto ankle boots to round out my collection

Including those stiletto heeled cowboy boots you referenced the other day?

And so...in with the new!

Size 45. And the scaled up heel height is 125mm (up from the nominal 100mm for the standard size 38) As to pictures: I am a photographer. I am much more comfortable behind the lens rather than in front of it. But I can tell you they are lovely looking boots - classic lines, black leather, knee height and with those (nominally) four-inch stiletto heels. And they fit beautifully.

Well I am now the proud owner of a pair of classic black leather stiletto knee boots with 100mm - or four inch - heels, although in truth the heels on my particular pair are somewhat longer since they have been scaled up in proportion to my shoe size. The design calls for 100mm heels in a size 38, with height varying up or down with the size. They fit beautifully and are quite fun - satisfying - to wear. While I am not exactly gliding in them with catwalk grace, neither am I tottering around like newborn Bambi. Actually I think I am not doing too badly - whatever natural ability I possess no doubt being a legacy of all the cycling, running, skiing and fencing I have done in the past. I bought myself a nice pair of skinny black-washed jeans to wear with them. My wife had been quite okay with my wearing a pair of stiletto boots but even so I was a bit apprehensive about actually wearing them around her. I needn't have been. She saw me and the first thing she said was (with something of a note of a surprise in her voice): love the boots! love the jeans! Said they were the kind of boots she would love to wear herself had she not had her foot problems (which precludes heels altogether) We ended up having a nice conversation, very companionable. She said she genuinely liked the boots and thought I looked good in them. It meant an awful lot. She is the only person who's opinion truly matters as far as I am concerned. And she has mentioned how nice they are several times - somewhat enviously. And so I shall be well-heeled at work from now on!

Sorry! They are classic black stiletto knee boots with 100mm (four inch) heels - actually the heels are probably a bit longer than that since they are scaled up in proportion to one's shoe size. They are simple, elegant. I love 'em. Perfect! Since this is a thread about quirky heels one would probably never wear, and these are classics that I most certainly will wear, I shall start another thread!

Trouble is, I have champagne tastes (despite my beer finances) On the bright side my boots arrived - very nice too, well worth the money, and confirming me in my liking for nice but few!

Actually no - in part because having bought some nice boots and examined my finances, it can’t change!

I don’t know about pointyboots, but .i would rather pay more for something I really liked and have fewer pair - even only one, if it was a good one.

Well, they are very nice boots. A nice take on the cowboy boot by the look of things.

That is quite high! The proportions look nice though. Often with really high heels boots take on a 'scrunched' look. Those have nice lines. Have you ordered them?

I like those! Very nice! What are the heels - 120mm?

No leggings for me - just the PVC jeans! For which I want to get stiletto ankle boots to accompany!

Totally!

Bicycles were very much a working class transport and a working man’s sport as well. The history of the Tour de France has some amazing stories of some of these guys - they were tough! Working physically demanding jobs, getting time off for the race (lots of kudos so bosses were willing) the riding their bikes often hundreds of miles to the starting line, doing the race (it was much longer and tougher then) no support vehicles or helpers or anything, then at the end, turning around and riding home - back to work. My wife’s grandfather (b1918) was raised in very tough circumstances, often hungry, finishing discarded apple cores found on the street as a child, but when he has his first job he saved and bought a bicycle - not for sport or leisure but as transport. He and I used to talk about cycling back in the day. During WWII with petrol rationing the bicycle was indispensable for getting around. Then there is Robert Marchand - a tough old French communist party member, unionist, firefighter, truck driver, lumberjack and bicycle racer in the 1930s. He has just retired from competitive cycling - at the age of 106! He holds the hour record for the 105+ age bracket ( they had to make it up just for him) at nearly 15 miles. He holds all the 100+ records as well. He is still cycling, just no more record setting... They made them tough in those days!

I was really quite chuffed when she praised my choice of boots. She was quite enthusiastic. That really puts it all into a shiny new light! Very excited about it all now.

A few years ago I posted in my cycling blog a charming newsreel of a day’s cycling using the train from the city (I forget which city) to get out into the countryside. I think the film was sponsored by the rail company. Anyway in those days the railways put in extra baggage carriages just for cyclists. It was really quite a nice little film that captures the innocence of the age. As to bicycles being thin on the ground then, I was comparing it to the near ubiquity of bicycles during the 1890s

Indeed, I can see how this could become a very expensive hobby. I like to dress well for the office, even if my fashion sense is a bit on the boho side. I definitely want some stiletto ankle boots and will pay for good ones. I would rather have fewer - even just one - nice pair than buy a lot of indifferent ones just for variety sake. My boots are from Italian heels. A classic knee boot, simple and elegant lines. The jeans are from Topshop. I really like their jeans. They fit me better than any I have fiund