Mickey S.

Hopefully he's reading along and understands English...

Today I drove Dresden (my hometown) and while cruising "Tharandter Straße", around 3.15pm, I noticed a guy wearing like 3" .. 4" heels quite visible. He walked down the road, heading Freital. Sorry folks, that all doesn't mean much to most of you but if the one I've seen reads this, he'll probably know. Male attire, male (short) haircut, 'male moving' (just regular, not gay), dark clothing - it appeared like that against a snowy-white background - but pretty obvious he wore high heels (from the 'casual'-, meaning not the fetish-stuff-shelf), just a coordinated appearance. Unfortunately, I couldn't stop for a second because some other cars were right behind me so I would have caused a crash stepping on the breaks like in an emergency-stop. I went on, turned around next intersection, but when I was back at the point where I'd seen him a minute ago, he was gone. Too bad. I'd like to have talked to him for a minute...


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-Mike

loveheel

Cool ! I have only once seen another guy wear heels, many years ago in Pittsburgh in a rather nice hotel. I have seen lots of men BUY heels in stores.

Mickey S.

The thing is there's so many guys around here telling that they go street-heeling, but where are they? I've been to the places where they said that they were there and would be there again some time but I haven't seen anybody except yesterday for the first time... Do I have to change specs?


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-Mike

loveheel

In the end it is just a matter of statistics. I probably know (by face) at least a few hundred people in the Boston area, but except for the people in my own little twon, I never run into anyone I know. If we assume that less than one in 100,000 men would wear boots outside (that would still make it a 1000 or so in the US alone, which is much more than we get on this board), we are unlikely to run into anyone of them, unless we do activities that are strongly correlated (like going into shoe stores).

Actually, this would make for a great math exercise. if we could get some statistics on how may men we observe in heels on the street (randomly, so not in a heel meet), I could probably make some estimate of how which fraction of men in the world wear heels outside.

BobHH

The only one I've actually seen on the street was in London in July 2000 at Covent Garden Market. Long pants, blade heels of only 3 in. or so. Walked by so fast I didn't really get a good look. The wife and I remarked on it but didn't pay a lot of attention.

Epi Cene

Most of the guys I've seen in heels are fully crossdressed obvious TVs.

Seldom see guys dressed in otherwise male mode, wearing fem heels.

In some ways it's probably "easier" to go the full CD route, than the male clothing/female heels route. Our society is conditioned to expect and emulate only 1 of 2 distinct modes. Either all female or all male. It's actually harder to occupy the grey, instead of just black or white spectrum.

That's ironic, since many of us have both male and female characteristics, in varying degrees, in our being.

TXT-1

the only guy I've seen here in Perth, Western Australia, was a CD

never seen another guy in heels (in male mode) EVER!

later,

TXT-1

Ellen-Jay

Never seen a guy wearing heels out and about...ever!

Ellen-Jay :)

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Epi Cene

Most of the (few) guys, I've seen over the years, have been either at self-serve shoe stores, particularly Nordstrom Rack, thrift (2nd hand) stores, or more likely general street areas like L.A. or San Francisco.

The guys is full CD mode wear fem heels. Some of them badly need style and makeup lessons. Of course, the really good ones, just pass for female.

The guys in male clothing mode tend to be wearing unisex sandels, shoes or block heel boots. The male mode guys with the moderate footwear usually look more appropriate, to me, and just mostly blend in.

Not sure I'd even notice the male mode-moderate footwear guys, if I weren't in the same type mode.

Stormie

I think I've seen bloke in heels (admittedly they can't have been more than an inch and half, maybe 2 inches) on the Tube. They were brown ankle boots and he wore them under camel-coloured jeans. This was a few years ago and I can't remember much more than that - by process of elimination it would have been on the Central Line between Mile End and Leytonstone.

Otherwise it's only been CDs or exceedingly camp guys (and let's face it, people do use the "Oh, it's alright, he's gay" mode of reason to deal with that sort of conflict). I've probably seen heel-wearing guys in Camden and just not paid attention, but that bubbles down to the "This is Camden, they're allowed to be weird" mode of reason - a guy walked past me wearing a corset that pulled his waist in so much that it can't have been more than 20 inches round, and I didn't notice until my cousin told me to look at the 'wasp guy'. (NB. by 'weird' I mean 'against societal norms', and I'm being my unfortunately rather blunt self, I don't mean to insult anyone.) But I digress.

Perhaps you just don't see them because they've got the art of keeping it subtle?

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