The Clog Blog

Good grief! It’s been nearly a year (well, over 9 months anyway) since I last posted. Posted for a few weeks, then sort of evaporated from the scene. It’s no coincidence that this was during the period that a big chunk of the global economy evaporated too, taking a bit of my customary cheery attitude with it.

But attitudes can recover a lot faster than economies, so I decided it was time for me to get back at it again, even though I’ve added little to my collection since my last post.

What got me interested in posting again was the reference in this past Friday’s Morning Shoe Report to columnist Jason Campbell’s acknowledgment that he really likes wearing high heels. It’s always a reassuring thing to hear of still another man who likes heels and has the courage to wear them with pride. He expresses my feelings exactly:

“I like the idea of a man remixing a traditionally female item and making it his own, giving it new purpose. I would equate it to the feeling a woman gets when she dons a tailored pantsuit—she immediately harnesses the strength of the opposite sex. For me, wearing heels isn’t about dressing like a woman (strangely enough I’ve never done that); it’s about incorporating the unexpected item into a man’s wardrobe. It feels modern and new, which I always strive for in all my dressing choices.”

(From http://jcreport.com/blog/131009/i-love-wear-pumps)

I like the “harnesses the strength of the opposite sex” - I know just what he means. There is a world of difference between dressing as the opposite sex and borrowing a particular item from it to embellish your own! Walking in high heels gives anyone, male or female, a peculiarly unique sense of confidence. It’s not just that you’ve mastered the technique of maintaining graceful balance on a precarious support, it’s that you’ve achieved a degree of poise that is fully as psychological as it is physical.

That’s my own take on it. I know from reading the seemingly permanent Heels for Men thread over at The Fashionspot that it’s a topic on which lots of folks have really strong opinions, so I thought it might be interesting to bring it up here and see what dedicated shoe-a-holics think.