Good lord you’re cute! Definitely want to see a good picture WITH boots, with a good background… W00F! 
Verdict: Good idea. Pretty good idea.
The party was pretty much an unmitigated success, and I scored major brownie points with just about all the bosses! Woo!
I had a bit of a scare with the boots though. DHL barely came through - they LOST the boots at their forwarding address! It took them almost a week to find the damn things, by which time it looked like the boots were going to be too late.
Thankfully, they managed to find them in time, and an express plane ride later, I had the boots a scant 2 days before the Dinner and Dance.
Walking in them surprisingly wasn’t much of a pain. They were actually quite comfortable for walking around the ballroom in, and I even walked next door to collect the photographs of the event. THAT was a rush, walking around in public looking like that!
The boots themselves fit me more or less perfectly, except that I could have possibly gone one or half a size smaller.
One thing about the boots though - the calf was far too wide for me. If you look carefully, you can see that there was actually about 3 inches of space around my calf, and that was already with the laces done up as far as they would go… I think I should have gotten the normal width calf boots. Or, I could have, y’know, asked how wide they were around. Bah. I’ll learn the next time I need to buy a pair of girl gothy stripper boots.