Thursday, January 08, 2009

Repairing high heels

Well, today I did my first high heel repair (well, sort of). My new red
boots threw a heel tip the other day. I borrowed a heel tip from a pair
of heels that I don't wear very often. It's amazingly simple and easy to
replace a heel tip. Just grab the old tip with a pair of pliers and
wiggle and pull. It will come out with a little effort. Then push the
new tip into the hole and tap the heel on something hard to seat it.
That's it.

In this case I removed the good heel from the shoe and put it onto the
boot. It took a whole 2 minutes to do. I found a website where you can
order replacement heel tips for about $2.50/pair. If you order 10 or
more pairs, shipping is free anywhere in the world.

http://www.stiletto-heel-tips.co.uk/heel_tips_available.htm

I took an inventory of the various heel sizes we have and ordered the
most popular sizes, including several pairs in each of the smaller ones.
The way I look at it is the smaller ones are much more prone to coming
off than the larger ones and we have a number of heels in the smaller
heel sizes, so I ordered 2 or 3 pairs of these. I should see my new
supply of heel tips in a week or so.

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