Shyheels

Whatever their true height, they certainly look like they would be extremely difficult to wear and walk in gracefully. My friend who owns a pair is exceptionally experienced in Heels, lives in 120s as a rule, and even she finds the Hot Chicks a challenge - mind you she is a perfectionist and anything short of gliding beautifully across a room in them would have her leaving them at home (which she does)

Topshop is having a sale and I see several styles of PVC jeans on offer: A midnight blue pair: https://www.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&viewAllFlag=&langId=-1&storeId=12556&catalogId=33057&parent_categoryId=3493110&categoryId=3496096&productId=29726137 A holographic (?) pair: http://www.topshop.com/en/tsuk/product/moto-holographic-vinyl-jamie-jeans-6958941?bi=0&ps=20&Ntt=holographic vinyl And a pair of PVC ski trousers! https://www.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=33057&langId=-1&productId=30612635&storeId=12556&krypto=ffHsZ5u8mgLClasIFznkiEqQSYN6iqU37qr0Z4aUHBAC3BU3Evi%2BWdU%2BZ7aHzcKte0qVBzouigoFkR3ahvXSbeYERoWB4vKk6T7siNNS3cMGum0xrlO97hGOQmeNKnXHPwlaFsDP4UibTzWwwlZiPdYu88M284IwF51D49hkgrU%3D In the interests of keeping my 'office look' fresh and lively, I ordered a pair of the sale priced midnight blue jeans and the holographic vinyl jeans (which this morning appears be nearly entirely out of stock) I have no idea what 'holographic vinyl' jeans are going to be like, or what they mean by holographic, but I figured I'd regret it if I didn't order a pair and find out (I can always return to store)

My New Years' resolution to explore heels - specifically stilettos - has prompted a bit of (unworried, untroubled) introspection. Why do I want to adopt a pair of stilettos? Curiosity is a big factor - as I said in another post, I would bet that the overwhelming majority of men would love to try on a pair of heels just to see what it was like, how it felt, how it looked. But such is society and it’s hidebound perceptions of masculinity that even the acknowledgement of such curiosity is buried good and deep within us. For many if not most guys, I would imagine, even an inkling that such a curiosity existed within them, beneath the surface, would be deeply unsettling, and prompt the hostile fearful reactions one sees. On a similar note I suspect too some of those reactions are based on envy, seeing someone else dare to do something they might wish to try too but daren’t. Seeing someone assume a freedom, take a liberty, is also unsettling and prompts angry responses. It’s how motorists view cyclists - people who are escaping the enslavement if the automobile and all its attendant costs, red tape, fines and legalities. I know that in my case, having given myself permission for some time now to wear otk suede boots (flats) it is only natural to acknowledge the curiosity that is within and act upon it. I am sure there are plenty of other factors, but a simple healthy curiosity must be the biggest motivating force.

Quite right, Freddy - a road to be travelled. Defies easy analysis.

It is only natural to be curious. There would have to be a large majority of guys who would secretly like to try on a pair of heels - stilettos if they are feeling really daring - just to see what it felt like. And why not? It is just that there are enormous pressures to conform and not ever to put a foot out of place (literally) or risk not being ‘a man’

I know someone, a passionate lifelong expert in high heels, who has a pair of Hot Chicks (130mm) and even she can’t, or rather doesn’t, wear them out. She is a perfectionist and finds that despite virtually living in 120s she cannot walk without a slight bend in her knee if she wears the Hot Chicks. You may be right that Louboutin was being ingenuous. Certainly though the vast majority of his shoes and boots stop at 120mm - or just under five inches.

And credit where it’s due too, this site and HHP is full of interesting and perfectly normal guys who wear stilettos. It is an encouraging environment.

It was there. I couldn’t resist!

My liking of knee and OTK boots (and some styles and models of thigh boots) is based purely on aesthetics and a possibly misplaced fashion sense. I can trace its roots back to childhood. My burgeoning desire to push the envelope to stiletto knee boots is more complex but is owed at least in part to a buccaneering love of daring, the forbidden and taboo breaking. Having made the jump to buying and wearing tall boots - a style of boot society clearly regards as feminine - it feels natural to want to take that to its logical conclusion. If one is daring to wear feminine boots, it doesn’t get more feminine than stiletto boots. There is also the curiosity that I think lurks in many, if not all, guys. What is it like to wear high heels?

What are waders anyway but rubber thigh boots. How kinky is that?

In a previous life you were a heel?

I see what you mean about the volume of those boots. They would be too big and floppy on my too. Obviously people choose shoes they find appealing for many and varied reasons, not just questions of pure abstract aesthetics. I am still sorting out in my mind, for example, the rationales behind my desire to wear and walk well in 4-5” stilettos and what form my stiletto adventure should take. While I am sure that my reasons are many and that the idiosyncratic logic behind them may not be readily articulated, I do know that in my case aesthetics plays a huge role. There is something majestic and appealing about the lines of a 4-5” inch heeled boot that I long to adopt for myself.

Indeed we did. And are all the better for it!

All you need is something to keep the shafts reasonably straight.

My OTK boots are all low/flat but I am planning on adventuring into stilettos. In terms of visuals - and lacking experience - I much prefer the elegance of 4-5” stilettos. Four inch seems “lofty but demure”, five inch seems “regal”. Above that and it looks contrived to me.

I never really liked the angles and proportions and shaping of boots or shoes heels much over 5” They look “hunched” to me. Not elegant. .Apparently I am in good company.I read somewhere that Louboutin also thinks heels that tall are too contrived.

I have heard of using rolled up newspaper or lengths of plastic pipe or similar in the shafts. I need to start doing some of that sort of thing with my OTK boots. I have them standing in my wardrobe, with the shafts are folded over and that is a concern.

Indeed, I expect Mrs Puffer would not approve of me or my dress sense! My wife, fortunately, is quite laissez faire. She does not wear heels herself and is a bit bemused by my desire to do so, and to give stilettos a try, but she is certainly all right with my doing it. Sees nothing wrong with it, perverse or immoral. And she knows too that I would never do anything which would embarrass her. Or scuff the floors. And so we’re fine. And while I say she is a bit bemused by my desire to wear stilettos, she understands it too and is sympathetic as far as that goes. I am really quite lucky...

Being an utter neophyte I cannot imagine standing in 7-inch heels, but I should think if you did your calf muscles would knot up like balloons so that you’d fill those boot shafts completely!

My longest ever day’s ride on a bicycle is nearly 170 miles - I could most certainly have pressed on and gone considerably farther for I was extremely fit in those days and not at all bushed, but I had arrived where I was going and there was no need to go on. I was not riding to achieve any particular distance but rather to go somewhere - I was touring. I would expect 200 miles to take me 12-14 hours.

Definitely not 7-8 stone! Almost exactly 12st, although I hope and expect to be 11st 7lb n the not to distant future. Our kitchen floor is a fairly hard laminate - not really wood flooring. I would expect my stilettos to have plastic tips - the ones I have been browsing certainly have plastic tips - and with the rubber protectors I think (hope) I should be fine. To be honest when I am in the kitchen wearing them I will mainly be working at the kitchen table, seated in front of a laptop, with intermittent treks across the kitchen to brew coffee or to make lunch - not a lot of walking, at least not on the kitchen floor anyway. I’ll do my practicing on the outside walkway. I like the idea of my wearing stilettos to work, of having such a flamboyant dress code in my office...

My own New Years resolutions are taking another step forward - or one of them is at any rate, the one germane to this forum. Thanks to Freddy I have sourced some rubber protector tips for the stiletto heels which should offer protection for the wooden floors (I shall stay off the newly laid carpet altogether!) and have them on order. I can start to see this actually happening. (I am still some ways off one of my other New Years resolutions: that of completing a double imperial century ride on my bicycle!)

Brilliant, Freddy - found a set on Amazon! Ordered! Now for the stiletto boots.... Only a week into the New Year and my resolution is gaining traction!

Thanks! That looks ideal! My wife is quite fine with my wanting to try out stilettos - but she is concerned about the wooden floors. Fair enough. Personally I don't think that the plastic tips would do any damage, but I want to cover myself here. She's being a good sport and so it behoves me to do likewise. But just for knowledge, do plastic tips damage floors? I can see where meal might....

Further to my pursuing my resolution to learn to walk gracefully in a pair of stiletto boots, and in the interest of not scuffing floors, is it possible to put rubber tips on the stiletto heels? That may be a silly question, one that betrays my neophyte status, but I don't know the answer. And if so, is it the sort of thing you could've done at your local shoe repair shop?