Gentlefolk,
Well it looks like I'm on my soapbox again, please bear with me whilst I ramble on. Nothing is personal here and my fire extinguisher is ready
but it really shouldn't be necessary.
I do agree with Xa and KH, because from my perspective, wearing shoes with heels is not fetish. I wear those in my Avator and no one would ever say they were fetish. Such venues and fairs just harden societies viewpoint that heels (stilettos in particular) when worn by men are just a fetish thing - see the Sun newspaper posting elsewhere on the board.
Xa and I met for lunch a couple of years ago now - we must do that again m8 - both in heels with Xa in a 3/4 length skirt, and we had a pleasant meal without feeling we were something odd.
We really do have to distance ourselves from the fetish scene because it does more harm than good for those of us who just wish to incorporate heels into everyday wear. Just how we can do this excapes me but as the negative always seems to revolve around stiletto heels, then trying to incorporate them into everyday wear seems to me not to be feasable at the current time. It is all about the right shoe for the occasion.
Loveshiheels certainly has what it takes coupled with a thick enough skin to get out there in stiletto Mary Janes, but personally I would have said that these would have been more appropriate for the evening and a pair of 3"ish cuban heels would have been far more in keeping with the activity and not gained the very negative reactions reported (plus would have been easier on the ankle on Camden's cobblestones). I just imagine those who saw him probably thought he was the chap in the Sun newspaper.
Of course, these are my own opinions and I do not decry anyone from wearing what they want, when they want. What I do want is heel wearing by men to become uneventful - an everyday occurance.
We do seem to have a preoccupation with stiletto heels - me included - and I would love to wear them whenever I fancy, but if you want to go out in heels, then for goodness sake don't feed society's prejudices. Society just isn't ready for men in stiletto heels, its barely tolerant (IMHO) of men in heels full stop, but if the whole look is right, then you pass without any comment.
I have worn these heels
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http://www.hhplace.org/discuss/attac...rogue_boot.jpg)
now for over two years every day for shopping, work and so on in the wrong part of London and had no problems whatsoever. This would not be the case if I was trying to do it on Stiletto heels.
It is absolutely essential that you are able to walk in heeled shoes, and I don't mean just a few yards or up and down the garden path, I mean serious distances, because if you struggle in any way, people will notice and soon see your problem and there you go - you'll be laughed at, but worse, you will comfirm society's belief that men can not wear heels.
Off soapbox now.
Be happy
Simon.