shyguy

I once drove a van in heels, and because of the heightened driving position it meant the heel could stay on the floor and still use the pedals. Was an interesting experience, but didn't leave me with the feeling I needed to do it more often really.

This may be interesting, the Northampton Museum & Art Gallery are having a display of shoes from around the world called "The World At Your Feet". I just saw it on Facebook, the website includes this link The History of Shoes and Highlights of the Footwear Collection I may try to get there before the exhibition ends in September

Thanks Freddy, those actually look pretty wearable. May have to get to Matalan soon to look closer.

Good to hear you had an uneventful time, and tried on some heels too. Takes a lot of courage to do so with an audience, more than I have. Any pics to share?

I think it was pointed out that her boots were on the wrong feet and her reply was "these are the only feet I have!"

It happens a lot, thankfully abductions are much rarer than many of us fear them to be. As a parent of 4 daughters it's always been a worry when they are young and get out of sight for a moment but they were always taught what to do if they became separated, i.e. go to the tills and only speak to somebody there. It happened only once, and only a little panic before we found our daughter at the tills with a store worker about to put the call out.

I consider around 2 inches as the starter level for a high heel, as that is above a mans usual heel height on a shoe (cowboy boots excepted).

Or maybe it was the "elephant in the room" i.e. everyone noticed but nobody wants to be the one to bring it up. It's a case of who would feel more uncomfortable then, the one who brings it up (everyone else may already be in on it before they were) or it may make someone else (i.e. you and your wife) feel uncomfortable and you don't want to do that either. Maybe they really didn't notice as you wear the heels so naturally and don't draw attention to the fact.

Yesterday was the first time I wore the new jeans out, sorry to say with mens boots. Mrs Shyguy still liked the look, I still liked the feel and fit. We had to pick up our teenage daughter and when we got out of the car she had a long look at the boots and jeans and amazingly complimented the look. She had suggested womens jeans in Matalan when I was trying on mens jeans which didn't hang nicely, but didn't make the connection last night and accepted that they were mens jeans from a catalogue as my wife told her they were. So it seems as I always maintained, jeans are jeans whichever side of the shop they come from. Although I have to admit the zip is a little short for male toilet habits, and the pockets are way too small. And I have to train myself about the button and zip being on the wrong side....

How about removing a little from your legs? You could lose a few cm from the middle of the thigh bone and / or lower leg and match her height that way

Would he have been OK with your kitten heels?

When you consider the original stated reason for the invention of heels was to help keep mens feet in the stirrup while on horseback it makes sense that they should hold onto the footpegs better than flats I'm also looking how your foot ends up probably further below the gear lever for moving it upwards, but conversely on the brake your foot will end up too low and make stopping difficult = dangerous. Lower heels however may work better. Liking the boots though

Was woken very early this morning, so as it wasn't raining I decided to walk the dog. After considering it I also decided the time was right to wear the boots donated by FastFreddy2 See here. I took them out of the wardrobe and put them on downstairs and got the dog ready to go. A little apprehensive about maybe being seen I hesitated at the door and checked the look, jeans covering heels so I was good to go. As soon as I had walked a while I started to feel pain in the back of my calves probably from being a little stiff in my gait with the apprehension of wearing heels higher than normal. They were silent on the paths though, and I relaxed a little as nobody was around. I found again that the steep arch in these boots start to make the bottom of my foot ache very quickly, I have heels of similar height (which I admittedly haven't worn outside) which don't seem to have the same shape for the arch of the foot. The extra height and maybe soft heel and sole seemed to do wonders for my back though, probably a big change in posture helped there. Because of the foot discomfort I made it a short walk in these boots, went home and changed to another pair to bring the heel height down a bit and then walked my usual route. The heels Freddy kindly supplied The second pair I wore I will be trying the Freddy boots again and try to build the distance up.

Haven't tried heels on my Kawasaki for the same reasons Freddy already stated, explaining if things go wrong..

An interesting development today regarding jeans.. I posted before in this very thread:- Recently I have been looking for some new jeans but all the mens jeans are very wide legged (probably because of my very wide waistline) and don't hang well. Mrs Shyguy has just bought some jeans from Tesco, and some from Marks and Spencer and I asked to try them on for fit a few weeks ago, and they did fit better than the mens jeans according to both of us. Fast forward to todays shopping trip and once again I'm told I must get new jeans, and in Matalan was told to go try some on, again mens jeans all very unflattering. My daughter remarked I should try some from the ladies section, and when she wandered off my wife took me round there to check them out. I came home with some ladies jeans (size 18) and tried them on. Mrs Shyguy likes the look and they are very comfortable so I am going to be wearing womens jeans and wifey has agreed they are just jeans whichever side of the shop they come from.

Please list some block heels

We do try to keep it as per the title, sometimes the lines get a little blurred though. Hope it's better this time around..

I find even a very slight rise at the heel helps make my back more comfortable. I also find the kind of sandals made for men very flat and uncomfortable for my feet, and prefer a slight heel.

Yeah been there before. More than once I have been under the impression we're going to buy some shoes for me and when the time comes we get the "Not for you" statement. It's a big let down when it happens too.

On the same subject of sandals, if anyone sees any fairly masculine sandals let me know. I have tried the last few years to get sandals for summer and always end up drawing a blank (mens are so uncomfortable, womens are always so much easier to wear) but they need to not look too girly.

Looking in the two shops I've posted pics of the heels were quite expensive, and very high. I kept wandering off on my own while wifey was handbag shopping to get a better look at the shoe shops..

Nice looking sandals Ludovic. I also have a similar deal with my wife, we have one pair of (usually ladies) sandals by our back door to walk outside in, previously I have worn her sandals with heels similar to those you posted. At the moment the sandals are cheap EVA ones but very comfortable but low heeled. As Freddy says it's a step in the right direction if you can get a foot in the door (or heels in this case) on your way to heeling more openly. Softly softly catchee monkey and all that stuff

As this is along the same lines I'm adding it here... Since the new updates appeared I have only just logged in. Horrifed to see my face blasted all over the site as it had integrated with the Google Gravatar and automatically added it. I knew what to do to change it quickly, but others may not and might be put off if like me they want this part of our lives to be kept from public scrutiny. Can you stop the site automatically picking up the Gravatar for new / other members?

Just added some images to the gallery which were taken with the new phone at Bicester outlet village. Hopefully there is enough detail to see some heels in the shoe shops there Bear in mind I was with all my family and didn't really want to answer questions as to why all the shoe pictures so they were taken quickly when I could sneak away for a moment