I love my high heels. Indeed, I am deliberately wearing one of my favourite pairs while writing this piece. They are a lovely pair of black satin sling-backs with a 4.5 inch heel, peep-toes and a diamante band gathering the materuial from which the shoes are made just above the 'peep'. I last wore them in anger a little while ago when my leder sister and her husband took me and a friend out to dinner in Poole. I teamed them with a wonderful black Phase Eight mesh dress with red piping applique embroidery - wonderful.
However, practicallity now begins to bite on the 'everyday'. I have to walk across town to my station, catch the train to wherever I am litigating, and then wheel me, my case and my papers to the court / hotel. Alternatively, I have to shlep across town to the supermarket or the High Street. 4.5 inch heels won't do, or wouldn't last. So over the last week I have been ensuring that my selection of flatter shoes is wide enough to cope with my new 24/7 female life style. I have some very nice low wedges and a couple of pairs of loafer-style shoes that should do well for court, and I have 3 pairs of black lace-ups that should be fine for my hobby railway signalling.
I do like my heels, however, and they do make a useful statement of who I now am. Fortunately I have never had difficulty walking in heels and when I was switching to-and-fro between genders they were a useful physical key as to who I was supposed to be on any particular occasion. I suspect that I will be joining that sisterhood of girls who travel in flatter shoes with more vertiginous shoes to change into when the veue is reached.
lol
Robin Moira White
However, practicallity now begins to bite on the 'everyday'. I have to walk across town to my station, catch the train to wherever I am litigating, and then wheel me, my case and my papers to the court / hotel. Alternatively, I have to shlep across town to the supermarket or the High Street. 4.5 inch heels won't do, or wouldn't last. So over the last week I have been ensuring that my selection of flatter shoes is wide enough to cope with my new 24/7 female life style. I have some very nice low wedges and a couple of pairs of loafer-style shoes that should do well for court, and I have 3 pairs of black lace-ups that should be fine for my hobby railway signalling.
I do like my heels, however, and they do make a useful statement of who I now am. Fortunately I have never had difficulty walking in heels and when I was switching to-and-fro between genders they were a useful physical key as to who I was supposed to be on any particular occasion. I suspect that I will be joining that sisterhood of girls who travel in flatter shoes with more vertiginous shoes to change into when the veue is reached.
lol
Robin Moira White
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