Men wearing high heels.
The New York Times thinks it’s a thing. So does The Daily Mail. Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir also professes it’s a thing.
But is this a thing?
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I have intense doubts this will make it any further than flamboyant hollywood types.
Well, I am not from Hollywood and perhaps not all that flamboyant, but I love my heels. I am pulling for it to keep going.
If the Daily Mail says it’s a thing, you can rest assured that it isn’t.
men are too tall for heels! Now any chance I had at increasing my height is being used against me…
Do you mean normal, non-attention-whore types of men teetering and sashaying about on stiletto heels? They tried that in France – just before the Revolution- didn’t work out so well.
Most men can barely chew gum and walk without tripping over something; stubbing their toes; colliding with pets, kids, curbs… Besides, they already make high heels for me;, they’re called cowboy boots.
sorry for the typo in the last sentence. It should read ‘they already make high heels for men;’
Agreed. Cowboy boots does a nice job of lifting up the man butts without showing off a guy’s hobbit-foot hair.
lol @ hobbity foot hair.
I was gonna say that it will NEVER catch on here (Montana), then pinkKitty had to go and remind me about cowboy boots…and the mens here have been wearing them since before this place was a state…maybe our mens are fashion forward after all? But, I still don’t think I’ll see any mens at the rodeo wearing Prada platform heels. Actually, I don’t think I’ll be seeing and wimmens wearing them there (or anywhere else around here), either.
Yeah, but they started wearing cowboy boots for their practical application. (They help keep your feet from slipping through the stirrup and also protect your legs.) Regular high heels have little to no practicality.
I don’t know if it’s a thing, but I hope it catches on and stays for a while so that I can actually get nice shoes for my “man sized” feet.
I agree finding nice or fancy shoes for wide high arch feet is next to impossible, I have to get my boots from mens fetish shops in either san francisco san diego or la and they are soo expensive.
But at least now if they catch on more men can suffer the discomfort they cause!
I hadn’t thought of that! I hate walking into a store and seeing only smaller sizes. I went to the Greencross store a few weeks back and every shoe i wanted to try on was not available in a larger style. to quote the sales girl “Ma’am we’re out of the larger sizes. We’re expecting stock on Wednesday. You should come back then.”
P.S. i made my piece with my size 8 feet when i learnt that a woman as graceful and beautiful as Phylicia Rashad has size 9 feet!
You shouldn’t have needed to make peace with your feet in the first place, ma’am. If 8 was not a COMPLETELY NORMAL shoe size, then the store wouldn’t have sold out of them.
well the thing is, they don’t buy the same number for every size, like they buy 100 x 4′s but only 20 size 8′s.
so it does make you feel abnormaland that’s not even counting the stares you get from the sales girls when you ask for a shoe in a size 8.
but thanks for the comment!
If it’s a thing? It’s a goofy thing. I hate wearing heels…I can’t imagine why men would willingly strap themselves into these mobile torture chambers. Cowboy boots is one thing—the heel isn’t that drastic—I can wear heels that size, but put them in stilettos? It shouldn’t happen… not only is it brutal on your feet, guys just look silly in them.
~~~well, it wouldn’t be the first time! We wore heels in the 70′s!
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Popular in the medieval age too. Men wore cork platforms, and MAKEUP
yes. i go to parsons and this is a thing. it’s not just heels – wedges platforms blah blah blah. go anywhere fairly upscale in nyc on a friday night. there will be men in heels. maybe not straight men, to be fair, but definitely men in heels.
as a woman, I hope it’s not a thing, because a) it takes away something for women to complain about when men are being sexist, and b) it’s not attractive IMO. You kinda need to be graceful to look good in heels, and something about the shape of the shoe just does not work in a way that looks good with the angles of a guy’s body. I just don’t like it at all. but hey, whatever. it’s just not a thing to me.
Well, instead of complaining about heels, then, you complain about the sexism. See, that’s a legitimate complaint.
[By the way, not letting men wear heels is also sexism, just point that out.]
*pointing
I wear my stilettos all the time, and I look great. And I can walk better in them than most of my female friends can. I don’t even find them that uncomfortable. I go to work in a pair of 5 inch heels, and I’m all my feet running around all day, but you’ll never hear me complain about it. I love them. Heels on men aren’t right for everyone, but they’re right for me.
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ps. To women who complain about them being uncomfortable: Man up, and deal with it.
Someday I will be brave enough to wear mine to work.
I also agree it is not for everyone but there are men that wear them just as good if not better than women. I appreciate seeing women in heels a ton, and because I love heels so much, I find them appealing on me as well. As a defense to another comment above, I personally do not have hobbit-foot hair; I have fantastic feet!!!
I envy your bravery BFashion.
You do know that they actually f**k up your spine (and the bones in your legs), yeah? This isn’t just about something passingly uncomfortable that you should just get used to; this is a real long-term health risk.
Now, good on you for bending gender stereotypes, and wearing these shoes and enjoying it – seriously, it’s awesome that the lines are slightly getting blurred, even in small ways – but it’s no reason to put down others. By framing this as ‘I’m manly enough to wear heels without complaining, booya!’ you’re just enforcing the same stereotypes you were setting to break in the first place.
ps. To women who complain about them being uncomfortable: Man up, and deal with it.
Yeah, tell that to the arthritis in my feet, pudknocker.
I think men look good in heels with skinnier pants. I can’t see it becoming a thing in the straight world, but it’s definitely a thing in the gay world.
The economy’s going down the toilet taking a lot of hard working people of either gender (and in between) with it and some boob of a designer is trying to make stiletto heels fashionable for me??? How Marie Antoinette-style frivolous. Oh well, if this catches on in the mainstream, at least those in the unemployment line will finally have something to laugh about as something like the above picture sashays past, catches a heel in a crack in the sidewalk and takes a header face-down in dog-doo as deposited by the perfumed pink poodle in a tutu on a designer rhinestone leash led by yet another over-monied fool in a matching outfit beard and heels.
Traditionally heels were designed for men. And by ‘traditionally’ I mean 17th century or further back, I don’t remember exactly. But if you look at the old paintings, pay close attention to the foot ware.
Ever hear the song “Low Spark” by Traffic? It’s a thing.
I have all respect for a guy who can pull off high drag, and look fantastic doing it (like RuPaul, who’s gorgeous in anything). Platform “unisex” heels from the ’70s are are close as most guys are going to venture to the heights.
LeDame Footwear. just sayin’.
Let them wear high heels.
Heals were invented for the men in the first place anyway. Let everyone wear whatever they want.
It wouldn’t be the first time in history that men have worn high heels… take the French royal court during the reign of the Sun King for example.
If it’s not a thing, it SHOULD be a thing! High heels look great, always!
Indeed !
I always liked men wearing heels or make-up. As long as they pull it off without become too feminine… The guys in the picture are doing a great job !
any shoe that makes a man wear high-waters just ain’t sexy, imho.
This is just wrong >_<