Yesterday the Northampton Shoe Museum re-opened after a £350k refurbishment. There are over 12.000 shoes on exhibit there - so its a Tgirl must visit place.

For more details see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2133979/That-s-shoe-business-Museum-home-world-s-largest-collection-footwear-12-000-pairs-counting.html

One of the key attractions is this pair of SEVEN inch heels....would you believe a size 11 from 1975. The Mail euphemistically refers to them as "male glamour shoes", but we all know it was a tranny. Just goes to show that almost 40 years ago there were girls like us. Maybe she bought them from Cover Girl??? Does anyone else remember that place.

hugs

Pauline xxxx

Do the shoes come with a hoist!

I`ve a pair of heels almost as steep as them and the chances of me wearing them on a night out are nil.

Clearly only design for ballet dancers - en point anyone- no I would not claim I can manage en point !!

Whats interesting is that I posted this on the main page yesterday and got 6 or 7 comments - it then reverted to my own profile. So I have posted it here for comments as my thread is now dormant.

For me personally highest heels I have ever walked in was about 41/2 inches. These days about 3" is the max. At Concord 2 weeks ago one of the girls must have had 5inch + heels - she was struggling to walk at all.

Maybe someone can go to the museum and let us know what its like.

Pauline xxxx

Personally i do have a lot of very high heels, had a 5 inch pair on in daytime last week and i can walk in them, but don`t ask for any speed.

I wear heels at night- flats in the day- I have 4 pairs of 4 to 5 in heels - they are not really killer heels my tv friend has a pair of 7 inchers but they have a platform so the incline is probbably less than my 5s -in truth she struggles with em- as for me happies in in 3.5 whilst dancing- will dance in the 5 inchers but that will take its toll by the end of the night for sure- walking is fine, dancing is fine, walking and dancing hmmmmm

my goodness i would get a nose bleed in those ha ha xxxxxxx

oh my god! my favs are the ones with the straps around the ankles,i had some and felt sooo horny and sexy in them

oooh steph ya sauce minx i love it lol xxx

Yes I remember Cover Girl well. They used to advertise in Exchange and Mart, which was the only publication with a section especially for cross-dressers.
Saved up and bought my first ever pair of heels there on a trip to London. Black, 6" heels and a delight to wear. (They were £25 for years ... a lot of money then!)
Now with the internet buying shoes is so much easier but there is always the problem that sizes vary so much.
I also remember buying a pair from Hayway Shoes in Leicester. No problems in buying shoes there, you could see them being made and you could discuss styles and heel heights and try on as many pairs until you found the right ones. Such a shame that they closed, but they could not compete with the cheap imports.
Now ove 60 I still adore my heels, and like all girls cannot buy enough of them.

My first pair of heels was 3 inches and the second 4 inches. I did try a pair of 5.5 inch heels in Aldo on Oxford Street but it had a 0.5 platform. I could stand and totter but walk - never. Oh I was in male clothes at the time and the men's department manager has a photo of me as his customer of the day wearing the heels. I didn't buy them as they were still too expensive. Must go back and try again some day.....

Pauline - did you really wear forty one to forty two inch heels? Lol! X

My first pair of heels were 4 inches, but now I normally wear 5inch heels. he biggest pair I have are 8.5 inches (but have a 3inch platform) xx

Marianne....no not so high 4 and half inches...weas best I could do with my keyboard ...smile. Though some of the heels look to be that high

Pauline xxx

mmmm shoooooes ! oops sorry i slipped away for a second there , i tend to choose what shoes to wear according to what outfit i wear ( as im sure we all generally do ) but ive got to say that my favourites are my black suede peep toe 5 inch stilletoes , or my black patent 4 inch with a nice little strap just behind the toes . but i would love the 7 inch in your picture , they are just so sexy , i dont know how long i could wear them before my calves exploded and my legs turned to jelly but i would give it a damn good try !

Mind you Pauline in Liverpool on a Friday night some of the heels on show would defy any keyboard! XX

Very true...Marianne ...with KK in a hood maybe admiring through the holes?

Damm i love shoes, but can only just about manage a 2-3 inch heel, my first pair were 3.5 inch black Patent leather, but can only get away with waring them sat down now ! lol xxx

The highest I can still comfortably walk in is 5" heels though I do have a pair of 7.5" heeled boots that I can just about manage to stand in.... just don't ask me to move around or else I'll be falling down in a very unladylike fashion!

a long time ago i once wore a pair of 6 inch. that was when i was young and living in earls court. now i am lucky if i can manage to walk at all, i normally wear a very low shoe now, but it would be nice to wear a nice pair of heels [say 4 inch,] because when i lived in hull i could wear a 4 inch all day. love collette XXX.

My daughter had her engagement party at our house last night! The evening was set over to her friends. A quick survey of the girls (about 20 real girls in their early ish 20s), showed that most wore heels only 4-5 wore flats. The bight of the heels was from 3 to 5 inches. Those I was able to talk to about their heels said theyd only go higher with platforms. One girl did have 6.5 inch heels but with a 1 inch platford. Most admitted they only wore the higher heels for partying when they did little walking!

yup!!!

Well you are NOT going to believe this !!!!!

There is a Louboutin exhibition at the Design Museum in London - with over 200 of his trademarked red soled creations on display - it runs till July 9.

Pauline xxxx

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/2012/apr/30/christian-louboutin-exhibition-design-museum

This post was edited by Pauline Smith at May 1, 2012 6:15 AM BST

Yep i was def a Cover Girl Shopper x tara