The Thigh High Club
Some men have a thing for over the knee boots.
Why?
Well either I’ve been brainwashed by the costume department of Pretty Woman or the allure is that the wearer may date by the hour, or at least prowl the streets in a heightened state of arousal. Perhaps she even wears stockings underneath, the temptress. Or cracks the odd whip down the fetish club.
Well boys, for your information, in fashion no really does mean no. No to comfort, no to practicality, no to stereotypes, so let the full-on thrust of a 6 inch stiletto thigh boot propel a girl into a new category. The well-heeled libertine.
Still not convinced?
Once again I blame Pretty Woman, though she did go all Cerruti in the end, so there’s plenty of hope for the boots. Especially now that the trend has hit the stores, both designer and high street. I should clarify that I am talking about a boot with a considerable heel, not the black suede pirate jobbies that Sienna Miller boho’ed around in a few years ago.
We were all agreed on those; these – not so much.
For what it’s worth, my advice is to be prepared. The man in the street will eye you up and wonder, for a moment, whether you have a working knowledge of hotel lobbies in W1, whereas a woman will either applaud you in a post-feminist ironic sort of way, or – depending on whether you have better legs than her – think the same. This might all change. If enough of us buy into the trend, collective determination will de-slut thigh boots for good.
And to check I was on the right track with the whole thing, I asked my husband to tell me what he associated thigh boots with.
He looked at me blankly and said ‘horse-riding’.
