Posted on 05/22/2010 12:26:27 PM PDT by JoeProBono
LONDON, - High-heeled shoes for men appear to be making a comeback, British shoe purveyors say.
The London department store Selfridges reports sales are good for boots that combine pointed toes with a Cuban heel, The Times of London says. Sam Lobban, a Selfridges buyer, calls the style "flamboyant, but in an edgy, cool way."
"Heeled boots are the epitome of this and seem a natural turn for our customer -- rock'n'roll twinned with elegance," he said.
James Taylor & Sons reports its customers want the extra inches a "man heel" provides without any obvious fashion statement. Owner Peter Schweiger told the Times many of his customers bring in wing tips and other conventional shoes to get lifts that will discreetly elevate them a bit.
But some men do not mind letting others see the trick.
"Sometimes people bring in shoes which we raise for them, back to the brothel creeper way of things with two inches of crepe under the soles," Schweiger said.
Traffic - The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
Cheers!
Those are gorgeous.
I like ‘em, too ...
That girl has the most beautiful hands.....tapered and feminine.
The rest of her is pretty nice, too.
:^)
I’d forgotten that song - loved it back when.
I remember Beatle boots. They’re not half bad if they’re a good fit. And they did look snazzy with some of the better men’s fashions of the time, such as polyester Nehru jackets and Star Trek sideburns.
And this was a great secret of men’s fashions that has been forgotten. Men wore fashions, and needed to wear fashions, because women’s fashions were fantastic.
Bright colors and contrasting colors, patterns and materials, miniskirts, elaborate and stylish footwear, serious hair styling, etc. Think of the “alien women of Star Trek”. Ordinary men’s clothing looked as drab next to it as dirty overalls.
And it was part of the whole Mod/Googie/Space Age/Atomic Age/Bachelor Pad/Populuxe art, architecture, interior and exterior design, technology and music. Which was stupendous, and only failed because much of the materials used weren’t durable enough, and the creativity petered out.
This turned into the rather cruddy 1970s styles, lost its futurism and idealism, like the flower children who turned into dirty, stinky Hippies, who then became Yuppies, and utilitarianism replaced style.
Pity, it was great while it lasted.
It lives on in our Get Smart dvds.
When we went to Russia in 2007 a lot of the younger men wore boots with such pointy toes that they almost curled up.
Everyone wore boots and some of the styles were so flamboyant that I did a page in my sketch book of just boots.
Long song, but Traffic was great!
And Gerry Anderson’s U.F.O. series, Laugh-In, the Smothers Brothers, and movies like Cactus Flower, Modesty Blaise, Candy, Blow Up, and the early psychedelic period, as depicted by Hollywood.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the point of the heels on the cowboy boots, to make them snag in the stirrup well? Not a fashion statement, but the utiltity of the boot!
(Pardon the grammar...blame Irish Mist.)
I believe you are correct Mrs. A.
Loved my black ones...good support and looks smart
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