Meet businessman who wears high heels to work

An Australian businessman has ditched his expensive men’s shoes for a six inch pair of stiletto heels to wear for work and he feels so comfortable in them.

The man identified as Ashley Maxwell-Lam, who recently moved from Queensland to Sydney, Australia, was prompted to change his footwear after his female colleague told him “her heels made her feel powerful”.

Now Mr Maxwell-Lam, a project manager for a major bank, owns nine pairs – five sparkly shoes for nights out and four plain colours for work – leaving him feeling “empowered”.

In a chat with news.com.au, he said:

Exactly what she [his colleague] said rang true. I’ve never felt more empowered than when putting on a pair of stilettos and walking through a marble lobby.

Describing his look as “dapper feminine”, Mr Maxwell-Lam insists he doesn’t want to become a woman, he just loves the “contrast between masculinity and femininity” which makes people “question things”.

I’m not going to lie, I like the attention, it’s an out-there thing to do, but it’s not the reason why I do it, he added.

Ashley claims to receive the most abuse from people within what he described as his own gay community.

He claimed some asked him, “why are you wearing a heel, that’s disgusting, you’re a man?”

Refusing to be slapped down by their comments, Ashley said his mum taught him to be resilient, so he takes “good with the bad”.

Although Maxwell doesn’t wear the heels everyday, but according to him, anytime he has new clients to meet, he does ensure that he slips them back on.

It’s a huge talking point, an icebreaker,” he told the news site.

Mr Maxwell-Lam’s choice of footwear may not actually go well with a lot of people, but he could easily strut his stuff on the hilarious money supermarket advert.

Source: Sun UK