The styles are chic and trendy-plaid, patent, over-the-knee-but not gaudy à la Kinky Boots. The Brooklyn-based company sells heels and boots in men’s sizes 5-14. Han grew up to be a graphic designer, along the way running the femme footwear line Syro with business partner Henry Bae. At drag outlets you can find studded stilettos, leopard print pumps-but no subdued, day-to-day heels. “Those shops cater to performers, so the shoes are much more outrageous,” Han said. If a boy had larger feet, he could find stilettos at a drag store, but that resource would drastically limit any say he’d have in his own style. If they have larger feet than mine, it’s almost impossible to find something that fits.”
“I was lucky that my shoe size is a men’s eight, which is a women’s 10,” said Han. Years later, Han went to Forever21 to buy his first real pair of heels for $40. Even though nobody taught us how to wear heels, we all tried on our own.” “It’s fascinating that a collective memory exists. “I have other male-presenting friends who have the same memory of trying on their mother’s clothes,” Han told The Daily Beast. The pair wasn’t Han’s, exactly-he’d stolen them from his mother, to practice “prancing around the house when no one was around.” Han thought that boys weren’t supposed to wear heels, so he made sure to play with them in private. Shaobo Han put on his first pair of heels at age 11.
