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  • tapgrrl 4:27 pm on April 28, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    How People Find Us–Past Year’s Search Terms 

    About a year ago I posted the search terms that people had used to land on one of the blog’s pages. Here’s an update, covering April 23, 2012 to April 22, 2013. I left off the search terms with fewer than 5 because the list is plenty long enough. But if you want the others, write a comment and I’ll add them. To make this a bit more interesting, I’ve added my own comment to some of the entries.

    tapgrrl 2,586 [o.k., so people who knew this site just used Google to get here]
    horseshoe heel plates 669 [Must be one person who used this search over-and-over again. Anyone want to fess up?]
    horseshoe metal taps heels 243 [Another one--same person as above?]
    horseshoe taps 144 [No doubt horseshoes are the most popular type of taps these days. How come I never see anyone in them????]
    majorette boots with taps 112 [Aha, something different! I just landed a pair of black-and-white pompom'd majorette boots with horseshoe taps and #6 toe taps.]
    tap grrl 94 [lots more misspellings below]
    older women wearing metal heel taps 90 [Hmmm, when do I start qualifying as an older woman? Not yet, I hope!]
    tapgrrl.wordpress 82
    ammo boot 70 [Just once I'd like to see a real person walking around in ammo boots!]
    ammo boots 59
    penny loafers with taps 59 [Penny loafers with taps--probably the most iconic image of a girl with metal taps on her street shoes.]
    do horseshoe taps fall off 58 [You'd have to wear them an awful lot, but I suppose it's possible.]
    horseshoe taps on shoes photo 58
    women wearing horseshoe taps 57 [I've run across a few women who do, but never seen one in person except myself of course.]
    womens loafers with horseshoe taps 57 [The perfect combination, huh Barry?]
    horseshoe cleats 46 ["Cleats" sounds more manly to some people than "taps" which makes them think of tap-dancing.]
    tammy ‘taptease’ channel 46 [Tammy is the second-most-popular tap wearer on this search term list.]
    penny loafers clickity click 44 [Yes they do, when outfitted correctly with a good bit of steel.]
    pictures of college girls leather gym shoes and leather moccasins shoes sniffing and cumming in them fetish 43 [Hmmm, seems out of place here.]
    horse shoe taps 40 [Some people write horseshoe as two words. Don't know why, though.]
    jingle taps for majorette boots 38 [I've never liked jingle taps. Prefer a more solid sound. And I've never seen jingle taps on majorette boots.]
    mcfeedia tapdance in my penny loafers 35 [What in the world is mcfeedia?]
    shoe taps 35
    tap dance fetish 35
    horseshoe heel taps 33
    horseshoe taps on womens loafers 31
    eagle shoe taps 31
    old ladys wearing steel heel taps walking on concrete 29 ["ladies"--some people never learn to spell!]
    tammytaptease 29
    metal tip spike heels 27 [Yes, even these qualify as taps, don't they.]
    penny loafer with taps 27
    horse shoe heel taps 27
    heel plates for boots 26
    eagle heel plates 25
    tammy tap tease 25
    tappgrrl.worldpress.com 24
    tap shoes fetish 23
    eagle metal heel plates 20
    cum covered womens mid heel loafers video 20 [Do guys who like women with taps on their shoes like to put their cum on them? I dunno. What does that signify?]
    horseshoe taps for women’s bass weejuns 19
    majorette boots kick 19
    wearing horseshoe taps on your shoes 18
    womens penny loafers with taps 18
    metal horseshoe heel taps 17
    “metal heel taps” 16
    metal heel plates 16
    horse shoe cleats 16
    smoking multiples 15 [Well, that's what Brittney did in one story I wrote, plus I had that set of photos. I've tried it too, but it didn't do much for me.]
    metal heel taps 15
    flickr photos of horseshoe taps 14
    tapgirl wordpress photos 14
    youtube tapgirls in maryjanes 13
    majorette boots taps 13
    horseshoe taps for boots 13
    “she stomped his head” 12 [Oh, that's ugly.]
    women wearing loafers 12
    2 inch heels tap shoes clikity lick 12
    what taps does st augustine have on their majorette boots 12 [I dunno. What kind of taps do they have?]
    tapgrll 12
    tammy taptease 11
    boot taps 11
    guys boot heels with taps 10
    horseshoe heelplates 10
    horseshoe taps heels 10
    army heel rims 10
    “heel savers” 10
    boot heel plates 10
    womens heel taps 10
    tap shoes clickity click 10
    horseshoe heel plates on aggie senior boots 10
    stop the clacking clicking noisey leather sole shoe -squeeking 9 [someone doesn't like us]
    eagle taps 9
    tap shoes with horse shoe taps 9
    parade boot taps 9
    heel taps and sex 9
    taptease 9
    soles tap 9
    horseshoe cleats for boots 9
    metal taps on womens shoes 9
    metal taps walking on cement 8
    metal taps for shoes 8
    horseshoe plates boots 8
    floor damage from horseshoe shoe taps 8 [Probably not as much as stiletto heels do.]
    steel heeled stiletto 8
    snapjack shoes 7
    young sexy girl in clickety heel 7
    heel plates boots 7
    youtube tammy taps 7
    heel cleats 7
    horseshoe heel plates for boots 7
    youtub women walking around damgaing wooden floors wearing high heels 7
    horseshoe taps for shoes 7
    clickherei 6
    eagle boot heel taps 6
    penny loafers clickity clickity 6
    penny loafer fetish 6
    tapped boots 6
    tap dancer fetish 6
    boots or shoes with horseshoe cleats 6
    metal horseshoe heel plates 6
    metal heel plates for shoes 6
    leather riding boot cum 6
    heel tap loafers 6
    old horseshoe taps 6
    heel taps from the ’50′s 6
    trodden on by spike stiletto heels thin as ice picks 6
    horseshoe steel taps heels 6
    clets.for.mens.shoes 6
    boot horseshoe plates 6
    “leather heels” loafers 6
    metal tipped stiletto heels 6
    taptease tammy 6
    cleats.for.mens.shoes 6
    url sexy girl in metal tapped boot 6
    tapgrrl.com 6
    horseshoe metal tap heels 6
    tapgirl wordpress 6
    eagle #5 metal taps 5
    army.heel.rims 5
    steel heel plates 5
    tapgirl 5
    taptease you tube 5
    metal taps on shoes 5
    horseshoe tap shoes 5
    tap horseshoe heels for boots 5
    womens loafers with noisey heels 5
    flooring dent of stiletto heel 5
    shoe heel half-moon horseshoe cleats 5
    girls in jeans and penny loafers in 1955 5
    boots with taps 5
    clogs “metal taps” 5
    women wearing metal taps 5
    women wearing penny loafers 5
    beatle boots with horseshoe cleats 5
    tap dancing fetish 5
    tapgrrrl 5
    horseshoe plates and taps 5
    tap shoes walking 5
    western boot taps cleats 5
    schoolgirls in penny loafers video 5
    can horseshoe heel taps be big 5
    heel plates 5
    horse.shoe.clets 5
    metal boot taps 5
    v-cleats 5
    “metal heels” cardboard 5

     
    • Barry 7:38 am on April 30, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      WOW! That is SOME list, Tapgrrl! One thing I’ve always admired about you is your thoroughness and dedication to “the cause”. (Besides your obvious love of heel steel, of course)

      I might be responsible for some of those “majorette” searches; as majorettes have been surefire, boot kicking, sexy Tapgirls since my earliest memories, about 1952. And yes, a few such groups did wear Continental jingle taps with the big lips up front. At the old State Fair in Dallas, groups of 50 or so “Tapperettes” sounded almost like firecrackers!

      I’m no psychologist but I’ve struggled all my life with the “why” about this particular fetish. I realize it’s a division of the ever-popular foot fetish; but why metal, both in looks and sound? Perhaps the steel-shod horses clopping on bricks in street parades….followed by beautiful young women with similar attachments to eye-popping white boots….a combination of perceived power and feminine beauty….perhaps a dominatrix “thing”. I actually swapped email about metal-tapped boots with a popular Houston dominatrix. She thought it was cool but added her “specifications” for large Chilean spurs with sharp points…totally menacing looking! “Clickety-click, jingle-jingle”…I could appreciate that; especially if she wears the leather catsuit, LOL. But I don’t need another project right now. It’s grass mowing season and every day brings another broken riding mower. It takes 3 to have 1 running at all times!

      But I think the tap fetish, whether it’s women’s loafers; majorette boots, or dance shoes….is about feminine power and assertiveness. My first tapping girlfriend was over the top assertive! She should have been a lady lawyer. Hummm? Black patent high-heeled loafers with metal taps…in the courtroom!

      And TAMMY! The mere mention of her name brings the tapheads howling! She invented the word, “Taptease”. I told her to get a copyright on it. Several popular burlesque acts on You Tube now perform in tap shoes. The girls understand it much better than I do!

      • tapgrrl 10:53 pm on May 1, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        There’s nothing to it, Barry. It’s just copy and paste. WordPress does all the work!

  • tapgrrl 8:39 pm on April 23, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    Marilyn Monroe–was she a Tapgrrl? 

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    Anyone know if Marilyn Monroe wore metal taps on her flats or wore steel-tipped stilleto heels? I’ve been reading a book about her life–sad and exciting at the same time. She definitely liked being the center of attention whether she was dressed in sexy see-thru dresses or causally in capri pants and flats. And she was in her prime (although still heavily doped up on drugs) in the late 50s and early 60s before her tragic suicide in, * believe, 1962, although I’m not at the end of the book yet. Don’t worry, people, I’ve got no thought of suicide. I actually enjoy my life, taps and all!

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    If you look really closely at the first black-and-white photo [that is, magnify it about 300 percent] it looks like the heel might have a tap on it! What do you think?

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    • Barry 10:07 pm on April 26, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      I magnified the pic. to 600% and played with the brightness/contrast. The shoe on her foot (she has beautiful feet!) appears to have a dowell head in the center of the heel lift. This could well be a metal high heel tap; but the detail isn’t too good. Those are interesting and probably expensive leather soled shoes that might have been supplied with metal taps in the late 50′s. I know those Braniff Airlines stewardesses surely wore brass ones on sky blue heels, tip-tap-clickety-clicking all over the Love Field lobby in Dallas about this time. I was around 13 and loving every minute of it.

      Carol Baker as Gene Harlow did a sexy tap dance in the movie, “Harlow”. Her taps were real; and the shoes were black patent Capezio “Theo ties” with 2″ curvy heels. Peter Lawford, I think, was also in that scene. You can still get the shoes for “only” $250. from Capezio’s custom shop. It was a rare moment whenever real metal taps were used on a movie set; and I still say Faye Dunaway had #5 steelies on her flats during the motel bed scene in “Bonnie and Clyde”. I bought the old VHS tape; but it wasn’t in that version.

    • Barry 10:25 pm on April 26, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      One other thing, Tapgirl: Marylin’s shoe on her foot has been half-soled. Would a successful actress wear such repaired shoes? Maybe this picture is from her leaner days. Anyway, half soles in the days of my youth were often accompanied by metal taps on heels and sometimes toes. Shoe repair was still very big in the late 50′s; and everyone had their shoes rebuilt. I love the sexy rounded toes on her high heels. Needle pointed toes on high heels and boots are garish and a turn-off.

      • tapgrrl 3:59 pm on April 28, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        Hi Barry. What I read about her in the bio I’m reading suggests that she very well could have half-soled her shoes. Beneath the Marilyn Monroe that she first acted and then became was still a lot of Norma Jeane–an insecure girl raised by a series of foster parents of modest means. When she was wealthy enough to own a mansion, she bought a modest-sized house. Besides, these shoes wouldn’t have been what she wore to impress people as a movie star–she’d have worn much higher, narrower heels. So this must have been shoes she wore when she felt like Norma Jeane.

        What I saw when I magnified the photo was the curved outline of a half-moon tap–probably a size 00 or something like that. That’s what I think a Norma Jeane would have put on her shoes.

  • tapgrrl 12:42 pm on April 21, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    Steel-Tipped Stiletto Boots are Still Useful Sometimes! 

    Last night my hubby and I went to a party at the home of one of his co-workers.  At first I didn’t want to go because the wife in the couple that was hosting the party has never been very nice to me.  She’s said things about me behind my back and even once called me “slutty” to my face!  Well, if she wanted “slutty,” she got it last night!  I put on this pair of black above-the-knee boots I haven’t worn in a long time.  They have 4 inch heels with steel heel tips on them.  I wore a pale blue short skirt and a bright red low-cut blouse and I styled my hair so that my dark roots were showing very prominently under the blonde strands.  

    A few years ago I lived in a house with wood floors, and I noticed that my metal taps made indentations in the floor. Ever since then I’ve been conscious of trying to walk lightly on wood floors, but last night I decided I wasn’t going to be bothered by my steel-tipped heels.  So, whenever I happened to be standing in the part of the house that had wood floors (the entry hallway and the dining room), I stood hard on my heels and even clicked them against the floor occasionally as I am apt to do with my regularly tapped shoes.  I’m pretty sure I left a few marks, but I didn’t specifically look for them.  Anyway, I feel like I got back at her, but I’m sure she’ll just have more mean things to say about me now!  

    I don’t wear stiletto heels or stiletto boots very often, but I know that men still like women to do that.  And I had plenty of conversation partners at the party!  

    Here’s some photos that I’ve collected over the years.  If you want more of these, let me know.ImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImage

     
    • Mark in Hikers 1:50 am on April 23, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      The marks would have been worse for the floor if there had been some sand; the metal tips would have driven the grains into the wooden floors, leaving a bunch of little pits.

      That’s something I noticed back when I wore horseshoe heel plates. Some of the floor was linoleum, and some was wood where I was living at that time. When some sand was tracked in on the floor, a regular rubber heel cap would flex around the grains; but the horseshoe heel plates were unyielding, placing the full force of the body weight above the heel right on the grains sticking up the highest, pitting wooden floors and not all that great for linoleum, either, but the wooden floors got the worst abuse, though in my case it wasn’t intentional.

      • tapgrrl 9:09 am on April 23, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to say I intentionally damaged her floor, just that I didn’t try NOT TO. I wanted to dress provocatively to show her what “slutty” was, and if there were consequences for her, so be it.

    • Barry 12:41 pm on April 23, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      You made my day, Tapgirl!! The only thing better would be to have been there at the at the party. You have the luckiest husband on earth!

      Thanks for the excellent pic’s of metal tapped spike heels. How I wish more women would find some and wear ‘em. The OTK, form-fitting boots are smoking hot right now; and with metal taps, they are out of this world sexy! I like to break the sharp edge of such taps (round ones) when I turn them on the lathe. This might save a stocking or two; but it probably won’t help the wood floors. Dance teachers usually reserve their most beat-up floors for tap. I have some BP stiletto boots I bought for Barb; but we’re getting a little old, even for shoe play. I will eventually put taps on them, however, and have her model them for the camera.

      It does me great good to know there is a little blonde hottie somewhere in the Southeast, laying down heel steel with each step of her pretty flats…and now stilettos! Oh, you would have loved it in the 60′s.

      Barry

    • Don 5:08 am on April 25, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      I agree with Barry that your husband is lucky. Enjoy it while you can. Weight and other ailments denie you these pleasures as you get older.
      Many times woman think another woman is slutty because their husband comments on how hot the woman is. You husband coworker probably like your taps and has mentioned it to her.
      Keep tapping while you can.

    • greg 9:18 am on April 30, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      Great collection of metal tipped stilettos. I really love the HH looks ones .Check out her videos
      on you tube. Great sound walking on tile floors

  • tapgrrl 8:58 am on March 19, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    Let me know if you’re having trouble viewing the next post–the one with the many large photos. My Firefox has slowed to a crawl since I put up that post. I may have to take it down or change it somehow. Let me know, ok? thanks!

     
    • Mark in Hikers 3:08 pm on March 19, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks for all the pics! I didn’t notice that much slowdown in my Firefox. But then my computer is just a year old and has plenty of umph, far more than the 12-year-old PC that it replaced. :)

    • tapboot 6:00 pm on March 20, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      No problem. Awesome show!!

    • Tapnut 11:45 pm on March 20, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      Sadly. I didn’t see any pix,,,plz e-mail

    • Barry 3:42 pm on March 21, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      Nothine here either, Tapgirl. Maybe I need to adjust my internet settings.

      • tapgrrl 8:07 pm on March 21, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        I think Barry and Tapnut misunderstood. There aren’t any photos with THIS posting. I was referring to the previous one (below) with about a zillion large photos. If you don’t see THOSE, let me know.

  • tapgrrl 9:10 pm on March 18, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    Guys’ tapped-up footwear is pretty awesome, I have to admit. 

    For the first 5 years or so after I started wearing taps on my shoes, I wasn’t much interested (nor did I ever see) guys with taps on their boots or shoes.  But after I started the InsideTheWeb discussion group (later on Yahoo) and started meeting men (on line) who were into taps themselves, I began to enjoy seeing taps on men’s shoes as well as women’s.  Over the years, I’ve pretty much given up seeing awesome (BIG) taps on women’s shoes, but the men have really been my model for tap-wearing.  How otherwise would I explain all my boots with horseshoe taps on them!  Plus, guess what?  I just landed a bunch of TOE-BUMPERS, and first chance I get they’re going on my boots!  So this post and all the pictures are dedicated to you guys who fire me up with all that metal under your boots and shoes!  Enjoy!

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    • Tapnut 2:40 am on March 19, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      Well, you included 2 of my loafers…it’s nice to be included in your hall of flame. The one above my white loafers, though, is “flame off” for me…the crescent is not correctly positioned.
      Good to see you back….can’t wait to see your bumpered boots!

      • Mark in Hikers 3:06 pm on March 19, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        Tapnet, maybe the placement isn’t off–judging by the wear patterns, in particular the inside edge, where it looks like there is some wear, possibly by dragging the heels while the legs are stretched out to the sides. (In this case, I think horseshoe plates would offer better protection, both along the inside edge of the heel and the more usual walking strike point, both places showing the wear.)

    • Blake 7:04 am on March 19, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      awesome photos!! Thanks

    • crushclogs 1:55 pm on March 19, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      Great to see you back ! I so like to see a woman with metal on her boots or better still clogs but sightings are few and far between.When i wear my clogs with the hobnailed soles very few people take any notice of them even though i am making a lot of noise , They sort of clip clop like a horse and crunch when anything gets crushed under them. The only real interest in them has been from women, One friend usually asks to see the studs and rubs her hand over them, Glad to know that you are still a fan of metal on footwear – Please keep up the good work !

    • Tapnut 12:07 am on March 20, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      Crushclogs, where can I find appropriate wooden clogs for metal application? Also, where did you get the metal strip that rims around the sole and your metal toe cap? Also, do you have a good source for hobnails? Your clogs, pictured on this site were really well done….awesome!

      • crushclogs 5:06 am on March 20, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        Hi Tapnut . my clogs came from a village clogmaker in the uk called Joseph Strong at a place called Caldbeck.. The clogs had the toecaps and iron rims fitted when i got them. I removed the irons and clad the soles and heels with a metal plate cut with tinsnips from sheet steel then i drilled holes where the nails for the irons go i added some hardwood plugs in the original holes to ensure the nails gripped ok, sometimes the irons are fited with screws ! I them made a paper pattern of the area for the hobnails and used a pointed punch to mark out where the hobnails would go and drilled a small pilot hole through the steel plate and hammered in the hobnails. I am working on a couple of pairs of boots at the moment and have made toe plates from stainless steel and i am using iron rims i made using horse shoe iron from a farriers supplier.The hobnails are available from ebay or in larger quantities from the foundry called Pennine castings, You could do this to any wooden sole as long as it is thick enough to take the nails, I often see clogs like mine on ebay uk or you could get a handmade pair from Phil Howard in the uk. Prerare to make a lot of noise and take care on shiney tiled floors they are like ice skates !

    • crushclogs 5:46 am on March 20, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      Hi I forgot to mention if you are buying clogs make sure the soles have a good curve to them (known as cast ) because if they are too flat they are almost impossible to walk in ,the cast allows the foot to roll as you walk !

    • Tapnut 1:41 am on March 22, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      Crushclogs…plz send pics of your new creations along with any other creations you’ve previously done…even more pics of your impressive crushing clogs would be nice. Tnx.

      • crushclogs 3:30 am on April 4, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        Hi Tapnut just noticed a picture of what my clogs looked like before i modified them , they have 10 written on the soles in felt pen. The post was called “What is iy about horseshoe taps”I will sort out some more pictures soon and send them to Tapgrrl Cheers

        .

        • Blake 2:26 pm on April 8, 2013 Permalink | Reply

          looking forward to the pics.

  • tapgrrl 10:57 pm on February 13, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    More Women Clicking on Cement

    Mostly women’s street shoes–pumps, loafers, flats, boots–some majorette or dance taps, maybe one or two men’s boots,…hard to tell, and I tried to leave out duplicates already on the blog someplace. For some reason, most of these shoes don’t grab me. Maybe I’ve moved on…at least to bigger taps, and the chunk heel style leaves me blah these days. But to each her own.

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  • tapgrrl 11:37 pm on January 11, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    Check these out! Double toe taps horseshoes and side taps

    Find them on ebay. Search for “Corcoran Black Leather Cap Toe Military Style Boots”

     
    • Dan (older guy) 5:34 pm on January 20, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      I hope you’ll have time soon to post new photos. That’s the best part of the site. I will email you some of my own shoes. I’ve experimented with European heel irons + horseshoe taps on the same shoe!

      • tapgrrl 12:06 am on January 21, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        I will try. I need to find new pics, select the best ones, etc. It helps if people send me photos that they want to see on the blog. Send me yours.

    • Dan (older guy) 10:19 pm on January 22, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      OK, I will send you photos. I also wanted to post a message, but it looks like I can only comment. I will write you with my message. It’s about using shoe goo to dampen the clickyness of the sounds the taps make. It works!

      • Dan (older guy) 11:38 am on January 26, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        Rather than email Heather, I’m going to write my comment directly to the group. It’s about shoe goo. A few weeks ago, I noticed that the plastic taps (yes, plastic, ugh) on my wife’s pair of NAOT soft-soled shoes were wearing off. She agreed to have me put metal taps on them even though the heels are fairly soft and squishy. I decided to try putting shoe goo on in addition to the nails. It worked! Rather than a tinny sound that you would have expected with such soft heels, it was a more normal metal taps sound like you’d get on composition or other modestly hard heels. She’s been wearing them (#6 Eagles) a lot around the house and when we go out, and I love hearing her walk around!

        So then I decided to apply shoe goo to some of the shoes I have whose sound has been a little too clinky for me. I put them on heels with #8 Eagles and ones on horseshoes and the sound is much improved. I even put some on double horseshoes–one application between the two plates and one against the heel. Fantastic! It’s also worked to solve the annoying problem of one tap making a louder sound than the other one does. Anyway, I’m a believer!

        • 2 babyboomers 3:25 pm on February 12, 2013 Permalink | Reply

          dan do this- you womam will like it me and partner old like you gets vintage clothing at estate sales she got some 80s tall boots with 4 inch wood stack heel and hard plastic heel caps with rusty metal cleats the size of 50cents coin you call taps yous could pull them off with yous fingers and see boots had cleats from new butt the nail holes were too big so me and her used Gorilla Glue to held them babys on and works perfect and the sound went from cheep to this woman means business . me partner says her feels like queen of the halls again

  • cryominute 2:20 am on January 4, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    Howdy Fellow Tappers
    Hope you had a great holiday and a grand start to a brand New Year :)
    I entered “The Pioneer Woman’s” boot give away faithfully every day, but alas someone else recieved those awesome boots.
    I had dreams of dancing with them on and having my taps grab that attention.

     
    • tapgrrl 11:00 pm on January 6, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      Wow! I looked at the site. Those are all awesome boots! How did you hear about it? Does the woman who gave them away just have oodles of money? If you’d won them, they’d be great for horseshoe taps, wouldn’t they! Do you have a shoe repair guy that still has horseshoes? I have to buy them wholesale or on ebay and then put them on myself!

    • Cynthia 11:41 pm on January 6, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      She’s famouson the food network. Her and her hubby own a ranch out West. Beautiful country. I love her show and recipes. I would find Taps somewhere that’s a given :)

  • tapgrrl 12:04 pm on January 3, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    Womens’ Biker Boots on EBay 

    Womens' Biker Boots on EBay

    I’m still on my XMas holiday trip, but I saw this pair on eBay and couldn’t resist showing them to you. They’re size 5.5 so they wouldn’t fit on my hands let alone my feet! But some of you may have an appropriate partner for these, assuming you can part with the hefty cash requested. [Click on photo for link to eBay page.]

     
    • Barry 11:08 pm on January 7, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      Good eye, Tapgirl! Those appear to have malleable iron (white cast iron) taps, which were popular in England and long ago in the US. Sears sold some in the 70′s with self-nailing spikes on the shoe side. I wore some in college and could not wear ‘em out! They were as noisy as steel and easier to apply.

    • Soccercleatscrush 5:00 am on February 16, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      I would have loved to have met the girl that wore these!

  • tapgrrl 11:41 pm on December 19, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    I’m o.k., are you o.k.? 

    I know I’ve been awfully quiet lately (on the blog, I mean–you wouldn’t say that if you were around me!). And I’ve gotten emails from Barry, Tapboot, and Tapnut, and I never replied to any of you. I’m so sorry. I’m not angry or anything like that–I’ve just not been looking at my my Tapgrrl email account and website…just giving other parts of my life more space. Not hard with two girls and all their activities, a hubby to take care of, and two jobs!

    Yes, I still LOVE making clicky sounds with my shoes and boots. I’ve gotten a few new pair recently, clogs mainly, and they DO MAKE LOUD sounds when I walk in them! My fav this week has been my old red loafers that are pictured on the blog masthead. Not quite wearing the taps down yet–they are really thick horseshoes!

    I’ve got a local friend (male) who I put into taps some months ago, and I’ve just bought him a pair of penny loafers. (Shhhh, he might read this!–oh well…). Been thinking of tapping them with double horseshoes. What do you think of that? He’s got a pair of boots that we put horseshoe taps on, but mostly he’s got Eagle 8′s on. And toe taps of course. Also wondering about adding side-taps to some of his shoes. I never have liked them on mine, though I wanted to–mainly because women’s shoes’ soles are so thin. But I like seeing them, so since he’s my project for the moment, I thought I’d suggest side taps to him–boots? the new loafers? oxfords? What do you think?

    Well, I hope all of you are well and that you’re preparing for a wonderful holiday with family and friends. We fly out Saturday to spend the time with my husband’s family, but now that I’ve posted questions, I’ll try to check in every day. Maybe once the new year starts (New Year’s Resolution), I’ll go back to posting photos. Send me any you’d like me to post.

    H

     
    • tapboot 12:00 am on December 20, 2012 Permalink | Reply

      Re: Your friend:
      If he wears boots with double horseshoes, then he’ll love loafers with them!!!

      Side taps: must be put ONLY on boots with really thick double soles, like, a pair of Frye Campus Boots, and do not use taps bigger than #2. But side taps are awesome and they look so good when the edge protrudes from the sole a little bit!!

      Toe taps: A pair of toe bumpers which have a flange that comes up and shows on the sole as a half-moon right at the point of the toe — AWESOME!! Problem is that toe bumpers cannot be procured any more! Should substitute stacked double crescent taps, or better yet, one behind the other, letting the one at the point of the toe protrude just a little bit! Or try a small dance tap on the toe — those are awesome. I have some of those you could have for his boots!

      I am really happy for you — you have a male friend close by who’s a “tapping-up” project!!

      • tapgrrl 1:15 pm on January 3, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        He got the shoes and when I asked him if they needed any “accessories,” he wrote back “horseshoe taps and maybe more” so we’ll see.

    • Blake 4:11 pm on December 20, 2012 Permalink | Reply

      Hi, have a great trip and enjoy your time with family and friends.  Figure you are going to California. Hope the weather is good.

      ________________________________

      • tapgrrl 1:14 pm on January 3, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        Not CALI unfortunately. My hubby’s from a Rocky Mountain state. Every other year we go here and my mom joins us. This year she wore the one pair of shoes she has with metal taps on them!

    • crushclogs 2:28 pm on December 21, 2012 Permalink | Reply

      Hi glad to hear you have got some clog type footwear! are the wood soled ? i have to ask the obvious question have you fitted taps yet ? Hope you are well looking forward to seeing some pictures when you have time !

      • tapgrrl 1:17 pm on January 3, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        OK, when I get home I’ll photo the clogs. Yes, they’re wood soled, but they have only #5′s on them (#6′s on a pair of slide/clogs, also wood heels).

    • Barry 8:57 pm on December 26, 2012 Permalink | Reply

      Great to hear from you, Tapgirl! No explanations needed..I know how rushed the holidays can be! We’re doing fine. Barb got some new boots for Christmas; but not the kind you can easily put taps on. She’s been walking rather quietly for quite some time now….back problems and fear of slipping. I used to slip quite a lot; but I never fell, except once in tap class. But it was cool! It looked like part of the exercise….never missed a beat! ‘Heard some monotonous video game music in 7/8 time today on one of the grandkid’s Christmas toys. ‘Made me think of trying to walk in odd measures, LOL.

      Spoke with one of my old toetap (pointe tap) friends last week. Made me think you need some toe shoes with taps…maybe just for sitting down and tapping around. I’d love to get geared up to make those again; but it’s already so COLD here…snow in Dallas for Christmas. ‘Must be all the global warming, LOL.

      No big deal here…Best wishes and may you; your husband, and your friends have a “bomb” of a New Year! (That means good, doesn’t it?)

      Barry

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