Heels for Men
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I think Eddie Izzard pulls it off quite well - especially when he appears as a male in heels. I remember a picture of him in a suit wearing stilletos - he wasn't in full drag like he also does sometimes. He has small feet too so he get away with buying women's shoes in the stores like I can. 
thighhighs
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Pics from a heeled man...
Hi all.
Greatings from a heeled man.
I totally agree with posts above; heels do not fit in every situation and on all people.
I've seen to many fat (if you excuse the word) ladies trying to walk in heels and just looking like 'an olive on a picker'. The same applies to men who wear the wrong clothes for their body shape.
I myself, are very thin and my body could easily be a womans (apart from my small hips).
Any comments on the pictures of me below?
Or this...
Or...
Oups... That wasn't me, just me wishing...
Let's try another....
Personally, I think it works since I do not use any other female attribute.
But what do you think?
Hi all.
Greatings from a heeled man.
I totally agree with posts above; heels do not fit in every situation and on all people.
I've seen to many fat (if you excuse the word) ladies trying to walk in heels and just looking like 'an olive on a picker'. The same applies to men who wear the wrong clothes for their body shape.
I myself, are very thin and my body could easily be a womans (apart from my small hips).
Any comments on the pictures of me below?
Or this...
Or...
Oups... That wasn't me, just me wishing...
Let's try another....
Personally, I think it works since I do not use any other female attribute.
But what do you think?
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Dego said:
You are of course correct. Normally I don't wear the thighhigh boots outside the pants. That would attract too much attention. The picture with the white pants inside the boots was just a test for me, 1-2 years ago.
Thats why the pants are of loose fit and not tight, as they should be.
Hitrate said:
Correct again. If I remember, I was in a bit of hurry when the picture was taken so...
Since you don't comment of my footwear (which is what this thread is about) do you approve it?
Following are some other styles I have.
My shoe/boot-collection is today somewhere around 80 pairs. And I must say that I don't only have boots, half of my collection is sneakers. Mostly Nike Air Max and Adidas GoodYear/Tuscany...
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I dunno, but something tells me it would all look a bit more acceptable if it weren't for the stiletto heels... Berlusconi can pull off heels, and I've seen the Dior Heels pulled off quite succesfully too. Pirate boots (albeit having no heels) can work on guys...
but such pointy heels seem so very very feminine.. regardless of everything.
It's like wearing fishnets with shorts.
Perhaps try wedges? Or *something*.
but such pointy heels seem so very very feminine.. regardless of everything.
It's like wearing fishnets with shorts.
Perhaps try wedges? Or *something*.
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I agree with satsuma- I think the pointy toes and the stiletto heels read femenine. Probably a chunkier heel and a more squared toe would look more masculine IMO- but that might loose the appeal to you?
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Shiela Ann said:
Nice boots, do you wear them in public also or...
Have you got any more pairs?
Crakk said:
Last time I checked, I was still not into boys. I love the female sex and have no attractions to boys what so ever...
Yes, the official female attribute is the stiletto heels. I do agree.
But they have taken a lot of attributes and styles from us boys during the last decades. No one says anything when a girl shows up in a tie or a hardhat, that's "natural". They took the pants from us a long time ago.
And, besides, men started to wear heels a long time ago to appear taller and thouse give more respect and power.
So the heel-thing started actually on men and then it was taken from us also...
Now I do agree that a chunkier heel and wider toes might fit on a man better, or at least don't attract so much attention. But why stick to that, I'm wearing heels to actually draw some attention, to stick out from the crowd, to get people to notice me.
Also, I'm comfortable in heels (how strange it might sound) but after 20 years in heels of various heights, I can walk better than most woman does.
Here's a bikerstyle I have also:
And here are a cowboystyle with a bit chunkier (but not chunky) heel:
And as already said; it's only footwear.
I'm not intentionally hurting or offending anyone by wearing it, even though some people obviously seems to think it hurts them in some strange way...
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From peasant to aristocratic. From slave to royalty. Heels have ranged a gamut of socially constructed limitations. But in today's modern world -- where fashion is focused not on status, but focused in masculinity and femininity --the primary objection to a man in heel is rooted in a socially and economically constructed stereotype that started right after World War II.
Socially, women wanted something different from the heavy and square fashions of the 1940's. Ferragamo himself deplored the typical 1940's shoe as "heavy [and] graceless...with points shaped like potatoes and heels like lead." Diana Vreeland (1906-1989) the reputable editor of VOGUE also remembered shoes of that decade with passionate disregard:
Everyone was in wooden shoes, clack, clack, clack. You could tell the time of the day by the sound of the wooden soles on the pavement. If there was a great storm of them, it meant that it was lunch hour and people were leaving their offices for the restaurants. Then there would be another great clatter when they returned.
Caroline Cox, in her book, Stiletto:
"the chunkiness of the 1940's shoe was also due to the limited technology, which meant that the verticality of its heel was constrained. Heels were made of a central core of wood which was then covered with leather and precluded any degreee of taper--the thinner the wooden heel, the greater more likelihood there was of breakage. This, together with a puritan streak that had, of necessity, entered fashion owing to the rigors of war, meant that glamour and ornament were eschewed in favor of comfort and practicality. A sensible, hard wearing wool suit was the order of the day for a woman who had to cope with the rigors of rationing -- an economy of dress to reflect the economy brought to bear on her domestic life."
Another excerpt from Cox's shows how the sterotype of heel=feminine is economically rooted:
"As journalist Ann Scott-James put it in her book In the Mink, 'As the last guns rumbled and the last all-clear sounded, all the squalor and discomfort and roughness that had seemed fitting for so long began to feel old fashioned.....'..."By 1948 the British trade magazine FOOTWEAR had declared, "The heavy, bulky shoe is definitely OUT." Shoe manufacturers realized that they needed to respond rapidly to the new decade of affluence by making a shoe that could stimulate demand after the wartime stagnation of fashion, creating a whole new generation of female consumers. Women wanted new ideas and new looks after the gloom and rationing of the 1940's. The race was on -- who could create an elegant, modernist shoe, one fitting for a new age and the expectations women had of fashion that had lain dormnat for so long."
Basically, women had to be the major caretakers of the home during WWII when men were away at the war. Invented in the 1950's by Italian shoemakers, the spindle-heeled stiletto was assertively modern, releasing women from the utilitarian fashions of the wartime 1940's and launching them into a modern era of fashionable consumption.
Anthropologist Margaret Visser (The Way We Are, 1997) wrote, "their first purpose was to raise the owners, enable them to pose impressively, and strech their legs..."
Again, the thought that a heel -- even a stiletto heel -- is exclusively for use by females is rooted in a socially and economically constructed stereotype that began after World War II. And thats just a brief glimpse at the social and economic development of the stiletto.
Just my blurry two cents at 11:59 after 12 hours of mind numbing stress at work.
Socially, women wanted something different from the heavy and square fashions of the 1940's. Ferragamo himself deplored the typical 1940's shoe as "heavy [and] graceless...with points shaped like potatoes and heels like lead." Diana Vreeland (1906-1989) the reputable editor of VOGUE also remembered shoes of that decade with passionate disregard:
Everyone was in wooden shoes, clack, clack, clack. You could tell the time of the day by the sound of the wooden soles on the pavement. If there was a great storm of them, it meant that it was lunch hour and people were leaving their offices for the restaurants. Then there would be another great clatter when they returned.
Caroline Cox, in her book, Stiletto:
"the chunkiness of the 1940's shoe was also due to the limited technology, which meant that the verticality of its heel was constrained. Heels were made of a central core of wood which was then covered with leather and precluded any degreee of taper--the thinner the wooden heel, the greater more likelihood there was of breakage. This, together with a puritan streak that had, of necessity, entered fashion owing to the rigors of war, meant that glamour and ornament were eschewed in favor of comfort and practicality. A sensible, hard wearing wool suit was the order of the day for a woman who had to cope with the rigors of rationing -- an economy of dress to reflect the economy brought to bear on her domestic life."
Another excerpt from Cox's shows how the sterotype of heel=feminine is economically rooted:
"As journalist Ann Scott-James put it in her book In the Mink, 'As the last guns rumbled and the last all-clear sounded, all the squalor and discomfort and roughness that had seemed fitting for so long began to feel old fashioned.....'..."By 1948 the British trade magazine FOOTWEAR had declared, "The heavy, bulky shoe is definitely OUT." Shoe manufacturers realized that they needed to respond rapidly to the new decade of affluence by making a shoe that could stimulate demand after the wartime stagnation of fashion, creating a whole new generation of female consumers. Women wanted new ideas and new looks after the gloom and rationing of the 1940's. The race was on -- who could create an elegant, modernist shoe, one fitting for a new age and the expectations women had of fashion that had lain dormnat for so long."
Basically, women had to be the major caretakers of the home during WWII when men were away at the war. Invented in the 1950's by Italian shoemakers, the spindle-heeled stiletto was assertively modern, releasing women from the utilitarian fashions of the wartime 1940's and launching them into a modern era of fashionable consumption.
Anthropologist Margaret Visser (The Way We Are, 1997) wrote, "their first purpose was to raise the owners, enable them to pose impressively, and strech their legs..."
Again, the thought that a heel -- even a stiletto heel -- is exclusively for use by females is rooted in a socially and economically constructed stereotype that began after World War II. And thats just a brief glimpse at the social and economic development of the stiletto.
Just my blurry two cents at 11:59 after 12 hours of mind numbing stress at work.
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it just doesn't look "right"
It looks like man from the ankle up, and woman from the ankle down.
And yes I know Blah Blah- stereotypes, there's no reason that stilettos cant be masculine, blah blah it's cultural conditioning...
so what. We are culturally conditioned to see stilettos as femenine. and I do. are you trying to break the fashion mold by trying to make heels look masculine?
or do you have a femenine part of your personality that you feel a need to express through your foorwear? I think the latter. There are many types of high heeled shoes which could give a Fashion Forward Avant Garde look, and specific outfits that they would need to be paired with
but looking at your clothes, it does not seem that you have an interest in style, or an interest in being fashion forward. it looks like ordinary average male type clothes worn with dischordantly high style femenine footwear
I think that heels for men could very well be a fashion trend in the future- it was in the 70s...
but I think that the reason that you want to wear heels is for the fememninity feeling, and not anything else. If heels were not a symbol of effemnity would you want to wear them? I think not
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The queen mums in this post are so hot
http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/683640-post180.html
I think some very few guys can pull this off, but definatly not pointy toes or stiletoes. I dont think pointy toes even look good on women. Ale looks good in them, and I think bryanboy looks good in them too when he's not dressed in full drag. But most of the time it looks very fetishy to me which kind of creeps me out.
http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/683640-post180.html
I think some very few guys can pull this off, but definatly not pointy toes or stiletoes. I dont think pointy toes even look good on women. Ale looks good in them, and I think bryanboy looks good in them too when he's not dressed in full drag. But most of the time it looks very fetishy to me which kind of creeps me out.
