balacau

Thes type of threads are always an interesting read. I don't think I can really add much if anything to the posts above but my caffeine starved mind started working when I saw the thread title on the menu page!

Do I really think that male high-heel wearing will take off?

Well you can never tell anything about fashion, and thats really how I see it. Fashion recycles itself around although I do not really see the platform boots that men wore in the late 60's and 70's as being "high heels" as such. Just as the younger generation are associated with trouble (I know this from peoples own misguided comments at me), high heels are associated only with women. The media of all sorts really doesn't help with this issue at all.

Spamming?

Can't say I've ever had any problems like that, no spam personal emails at least. If you really want to see how spam has destroyed a message board, you should take a look around Yahoo Groups. I was a member of no less than 13 of those groups who now use a pay-to-use site which has no trouble with spam at all. Unfortauntely they moved without me following them (since I won't use a pay-to-use site) and I figured it was just time for me to move on from there.

Me in heels outside of the home[/i]

Can't see this will ever happen. The furthest I got was cutting the grass in a pair of block 3 3/4" knee boots tucked under jeans; in the back garden when I knew my neighbour was away for a few days and I knew that no one would see. Did I enjoy it? Sure. But I think its more along the lines of being something I couldn't normally do. I would like to find out what its like to spend a full 9 hour shift at work in 4" heels but I'm not under any illusions about that ever happening - plus since I'll be moving to a more formal job with dress code etc soon anyway - it never will happen. Period, but hey there are some things in life which just can't be done by me (and others), so I don't complain. I find wearing heels relaxing...simple enough really!

And finally; general board thoughts

I have learned a serious amount about myself and my fetish since I joined this place, and there really isn't a way which I can thank people enough for sharing their information & experiences. I grew up thinking I was strange and alone with my intense liking for boots - not because of other people because no-one else knew about it - but because of lack of information. No-one else ever said that they were interested in them, at least no-one male. Once I got the internet however, I found there was quite a few people like myself with a liking for heeled boots - a few were self-confessed Cross Dressers, but hey if that floats your boat & makes you happy, go for it.

As for me, I'm quite happy sitting in boots or walking around the house when I'm home alone (even making my dinner in 5" heel boots), even watching a movie with a cup of tea and a pot noodle :lol: Its relaxing :)

True on the point there are few women here, I love to hear what they think about heels etc, and its true that I often read the "for gals only" board although I don't post on it; simply because its very interesting to see things from a different point of view including things which I either ignored or had never considered in the first place.

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dr1819

Interesting comments, Balacau.

In 1978 a friend of mine wore a pair of his older brother's shoes to school one day. They'd begun to drift out of style by then, but he wore them anyway, and received a few comments. Since it was that era, however, there wasn't any stigma attached to it. I was intrigued and he let me try them on. The heels were a good 3-1/2 inches, which meets nearly all definitions of a "high heel."

As for broad acceptability as a male fashion, that will come when it reaches a certain critical mass, provided, and this is key, that it's done in a tasteful manner, and with styles more appropriate to general acceptance by the male population at large. I think we've seen that most women have a much less difficult time accepting a man in heels than do most men, but I think most men's reluctance to buck the norm is merely reflected in their fairly conservative fashion choices, anyway. For some reason, the need to conform is greater among men, while the need for individuality appears to be greater among women, and explains why the women's department at JC Penny's has more than twice the selections as does the men's department (particularly in the shoe department!

Nordstroms, for example, has 3,268 selections for all women's shoes, yet only 1,017 selections for all men's shoes - less than a third the selections.

Dawn HH

HeelDirectory:-)

Love your Avatar pic. Welcome to the Forum.
Cheers---

Dawn HH

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DandyDude

I think as long as male heel wearing is associated in any way with "gender," then it will never be seen as anything other than a way for some men to express their sexual confusion. As for the talk about platforms not being real heels, men wore cuban heels in the early 1960s and 1980s. Wayne Cochran wore 4 inch heels, electric blue suits, and a huge blonde pompadour in the early 1960s. My point is that heels for men will never be regular until those who wear them as a style separate themselves from the "genderly confused", who are the main ones promoting the idea that men wearing heels are wanting to be women.. Note the myspace page linked below:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...iendid=4100637

The page belongs to someone who admits to wearing skirts. He also admits to wearing heels. He is not "genderly confused," he even has a girlfriend who is a pin-up type model. Check some of his links on the friends list.

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dr1819

I'm not at all confused about my gender. I'm a man living in a man's body who nevertheless thinks (as identified on several different gender identity tests) more like a female than a male. And I like wearing skirts and heels, too, with the occasional dress. Right now I'm in a black polo shirt, jeans, and a pair of black two-strap RSVP wedges with male underwear. Oh, and two of my nails are painted with Revlon's Pure Pearl (020).

I found it interesting that the guy identifies as a glametalpunkdustrigoth. I wonder what the "dustri" means.

I have no desire to be a woman, nor do most men who wear heels. But some do, and that's ok, too, just as some women want to be guys.

TXT-1

It would appear that I'm still a valid member here at HHplace... as the new board is based off a 3 month old Board.... which still has me as a member!...

but I DON'T want be be off the board yet!...


anyway... things have been great...

my datsuns are going great, I Haven't bought any more heels for 6 months...

why you ask?... simple I DON'T "Streetheel" and I never will!!!

the "streetheel, streetheel streetheel" vibe I get from HHplace gives me the shits!...

if you are a 5'7 98 pound weakinng you might get away with "streetheeling" in 4.5-5' stilletos but for us "bigger built" guys I't's NOT possible...

If I could go "streetheeling" I WOULD NOT be doing it in 2.5" boots....

I would be using my "new avatars" (7.25" platform mules)

But I can't be stuffed doing it... I'd prefer to practice my Handbrake turns and powerslides in my July '75 Datsun 120Y


I have NO problem with guys that wear heels.... I just won't be wearing them (in poblic).... I won't be dedicating a page on my website to them either!!

I will no go back to where I came from!....

later,

TXT-1

JNR

hmm, who turned over that rock?

chris100575

"Industrial", one of the rock / metal sub-genres. Rammstein and Nine Inch Nails for example.

Chris

DandyDude

Well, I don't agree with the whole idea of "gender identity." To label someone because they don't fit some sick stereotype of appropriate thoughts is quite degenerate, IMNSHO. I liked opera when I was a child, still do. I walked, talked, read earlier than most, things the gender police say girls do earlier than boys. When I was in elementary school, I preferred to be with the girls at recess, I hated recess anyway, and I got a lot of crap for it. Funny thing though, I had real girlfriends at the age when boys were supposed to hate girls. I had a girlfriend at age two, her name was Kay. I played baseball, could throw a "football" around, and played a mean game of REAL football(association). When I got to my teen years, I would get flack from short-haired jock types who were vile to me because I had long hair. I'd say the fact that I was tall and girls liked me got to them as well. In fact, there were several cases where jocks would tell girls "He's gay" and then try to put the moves on me themselves. Since I wasn't interested, it didn't hit me right away what was going on. Three incidents only became clear in my mind fairly recently, and I'm still laughing. In case anyone isn't clear, they were "cruising" me in various ways.

I don't like to be labeled. A site I used to read ran some crazies off the message board for posting how they yearned to have their penises cut off because they were "really" women." It was on a freestyle board, and some queens were posting an article where some trannies went to Asia to be "changed." The trannies were spewing the usual about "trapped in a man's body," and how they didn't have changes because they were already "really women."Those who posted it were positively gushing. Others posted that the board was to expand clothing choices for men, and promoting otherwise plays into the hands of those who say that men who wear heels etc, ipso facto want to be women. It was done.

My point was that people need to think of heel wearing men as a form of male peacockery, and not as sexual confusion.

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DandyDude

I'm over 6' tall barefoot. I'm also an experienced Latin/Ballroom dancer and have that type of build.

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