Shyheels

I agree with the less-is-more motto - except with boots, of course, where more, or rather, taller is generally better - up to a point anyway, the point being not too far above the knees!

A very modern take, as you say, on a classic style. I like it.

I love the old Vogue cover. This was the era when my mother was modelling and I can recall seeing pictures of her wearing outfits just such as this. She had closets full of clothes from this era and the early/mid fifties, given to her during her modelling days, and since many of them were timeless - or timeless within the period we were talking about - she would wear them on occasion when she was dressing up. I remember the gloves, the hats and the skirts but for the life of me I cannot picture the shoes or heels that went with these outfits. She certainly wore heels - although much, much, much less frequently as she grew older. We were also living full-time back in the family's old New England farmhouse in the backwoods by the time I was in my very early teens and there was precisely zero call for wearing heels I don't know if she ever wore stilettos. Can't recall. She had funny name for them which I have forgotten, other than that it was funny. I think it was said with affection though.

Stilettos were pretty early - 1954? Maybe a bit earlier. I realise they were lower than we would see these days, but the sharpness and pettiness of them made them distinct and chic and edgy and set fashion down an interesting new path. Anything much over 120mm on a female sized shoe looks too high and misproportioned in my view

Whatever year marker you want to out on it, I do think the arrival of stilettos ushered in a (literally) heightened sense of glamour

Touché on the necktie jibe! yes, the Victorian choker does indeed look elegant. I like that very much. But that is a long way from a heavy leather three inch collar with an oversized brass ring

It was also the era when tall boots came into fashion in a big way, helped along in no small part by Nancy Sinatra's saucy song

Leggings duly noted! And looking classy, not trashy She looks very stylish and elegant in all of the images.

I just looked her up. As I had imagined she has appeared in nothing I have ever seen or heard of, but I see where she has signed a book deal to write novels - nineteen year olds have so much insight into the human condition so I am sure the literary world has a real treat in store.

No, grunge is not a nice look. I do like her boots, jeans and jumper ensemble though. Perhaps she'll outgrow grunge and return to chic.

Again my ignorance - who she? She certainly has the sort of figure that could wear anything well. I like her boots and jeans very much - it's a nice look, although for myself I would have my jumper a bit longer. I do like the boots though. Again, in my case, I would have those a little shorter. But all said, she looks very nice.

It astounds me how these people can come out of nowhere, with no discernible talents or gifts other than dressing flashily, looking glam and manage to make fancy money doing it, with nothing else to recommend them. Very often, by the measure of this thread, they wear PVCs or faux leather tights. Somehow I think if I showed up anywhere in my Topshop PVC jeans nobody would come running to hear my opinions on anything! The choker is a new twist, at least to me. I know that the bondage look seems to be far more mainstream today so it doesn't surprise me that high street fashion houses would sell them - at fancy prices. I guess the glam young things need ways of spending the dosh that people throw at them...

She certain wears her PVC well. The leggings/tights suit her, especially with the softer top, although I can't say as much for the choker. That kind of bondage wear doesn't do anything for me at all, and appearance wise it does her no favours either. As you say she may have a thing for them. Otherwise she looks quite classy - more so than her colleagues, I'd say. At the risk of sounding totally ignorant, as I am when it comes to celebrities, who is she? And why would she be interviewed on TV?

Yes, I was a bit of a hippy - flares, paisley, Jesus shirts, bandanas, badges, sandals, the works. I liked the bright colours and garrish combinations and general floppiness. My mother, who had been a fashion model in the 40s and 50s, didn't care for the style at all. I have vivid memories of her when I was quite young and she would still be dressing in very chic 50s styles, and of course I had seen photos and magazine clippings of her taken before I was born. Even then I had to concede the elegance and stylishness of those fashions. The Lycra/spandex catsuits never really arrived, did they? Other than on Catwoman in Batman... I must say, she carried them off nicely. Probably just as well the catsuit never became the fashion - there would be very few figures in this obese age of ours who could carry off a catsuit. I always fancied tall boots, but never ones with pointy toes - nothing pointier than almond shaped, really. But I always did like the knee and otk boots that women wore and wished they were allowed for men. It took me to my fifties to dare to wear them...

I liked the sign I saw once in a wildlife park in Tasmania - "We have defibrillators on hand; if you need one please ask a member of staff..." I just love DIY defibrillation...

I am familiar with new technology and fashions but generally, or at least often, prefer the old - my bicycles are classic tourers with lugged steel frames and leather saddles, I enjoy black-and-white films and photos (although I happily shoot digital) I like old cars and planes and the simplicity of an earlier gentler age. I do not feel any need for change simply for the sake of it, because one can. I know winklepickers were in vogue during the 1960s although they never appealed to me and still don't. I am not a pointy shoes fan. But I can most definitely appreciate the nostalgic appeal They exert on others. Not a thing wrong with liking them or wearing them. Indeed, fashion does go in circles. I miss the more colourful styles and permissive atmosphere of the late 60s, early 70s myself

Shocking!

The handling - it won't really work that way. And the fact that the latest model of your bike has 650B tyres does not indicate that it is an improvement, merely that the manufacturer is acknowledging the fashionability of 650B tyres these days. To be sure, the 650B is a good (touring) tyre, but it is also a fashion, these days.

She looks like she's going to the gym! surely that is latex, not PVC? All that said, she looks quite nice - in part because she looks like a pleasant person, and also because she looks relaxed comfortable and at ease in what she is wearing. Not straining for effect. That makes a huge difference.

Definite fear here. I don't ever tinker. If work needs to be done, I call an electrician and am damned glad to do so!

I have to say I wonder why you are wanting to make this change. Even if it is possible, it may not be wise. The bike's handling will be middling at best, and if you have to use lower volume tyres to fit the 650Bs, you are pretty much negating whatever benefits you are hoping to find. And remember, even if the tyres appear to fit and spin alright on the workshop stand, that is no guarantee they will do so on the road!

It does indeed look as though it might do that every thing.

You probably really did escape, too. Electricity is lethal and scary - or at least I think it is scary...

The heels they wear on that show astound me!

I am looking forward to resuming my PVC jeans as my office wear, once the cooler temps of September arrive. Now on holiday. They are not the sort of thing for hiking in the mountains! Much more urban. Looking forward to resuming boots too On the other hand I am not looking forward to having to resume the use of headlamps on my bike and the return of cold dark morning rides...