Vogue staffers are famous for their clacking stilettos, but when a male intern for the famed mag showed up in heels, he says he got the boot.

“There were people who evidently didn’t like that I was overstepping my bounds as an intern,” R.J. Hernández tells Alexa. “I essentially got pulled aside two months into my internship and told I couldn’t come back the next day. People were offended with the liberties I was taking in my personal expression.”

The 27-year-old author of “An Innocent Fashion” (crowned the next “Devil Wears Prada”) toiled at the fashion bible in the summer of 2011, all while sporting “fanciful” suits and hobnobbing alongside André Leon Talley.

“The [shoes] I wore the most often were a chunky 4-inch-heel, pointy-toe boot — they were not subtle whatsoever,” he admits. “I realized too late that at Vogue … the people who could be wildly expressive were people at the top of the masthead who could do no wrong. Everyone else was to act and dress as was appropriate for their role.”

A spokeswoman for the magazine tells Alexa: “At Vogue we’ve never met a shoe we didn’t love.”