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both clumpy and school-like
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Opinion: He's right, you do see more!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/fashion/6753069/High-heels-fine-Louboutin
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These incidents are reported on about once a fortnight worldwide. More common than youd think.
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Women defend right to wear heels as 'kill joy' union bosses condemn stilettos in the workplace
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Opinion: You know what they said about tobacco/alcohol taxes leading to fat taxes?
Fat taxes lead to.... high heel taxes.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Donald-Marron/2012/0406/A-tax-on-high-heels
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Not alot of great news lately, but this was a standout, from an unexpected country.
Encouraging husbands to bring stiletto pumps home to their wives.
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Following on from yesterday's OpEd about Self-Hating shoes....
http://jezebel.com/5895613/wearing-heels-does-not-make-you-a-bad-feminist
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Angela Simmons Is "A really high-high heels girl"
Monday, March 19, 2012, by Bonnie Datt
Comedy writer Bonnie Datt once bought a chainmail vest "for clubbing"—a purchase she later came to lament, once she realized that chainmail wasn't particularly slimming. Inspired by this, she now spends her spare time asking famous people to dish about purchases which they initially loved—but ended up regretting, for Buyer's Remorse.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Music fans know Angela Simmons as the daughter of Run DMC's Rev Run—she was one of the stars of her family's reality show, Run's House. TheFashion Week crowd knows Angela from her many front row appearance and as one of the founders of the Pastry sneaker company. But we know her best as the girl who looked out for us at an unbearably crowded Boy Meets Girlshow. We recently ran into Angela again and got a chance to ask her what she's had Buyer's Remorse about. Hint: She wears her heels significantly higher than we do.
Racked: Angela, can you tell us about a time you've had Buyer's Remorse?
Angela Simmons: I recently bought a pair of shoes, was excited to wear them, got home and realized they were too low.
Racked: Can you remember the height?
Angela Simmons: They were heels—probably about five inches. I thought they were higher and when I got home and actually put them on, I just didn't like them. I'm a really high-high heels girl.
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Couple who took neighbours to court over sound of high heels clicking on the floor lose case and are hit with £140,000 legal bill
UPDATED: 21:18 GMT, 16 March 2012
A couple who went to court over their upstairs neighbours’ noisy wooden floor must foot a £140,000 legal bill after their appeal was rejected.
Hameed and Inam Faidi said they were driven to distraction by the sound of heels clicking on the £100,000 oak flooring – but judges at the Appeal Court in London ruled that their neighbours should not have to rip it up or cover it.
The problems began when the inhabitants of the flat in Eaton Mansions, Sloane Square, laid timber flooring
The Faidis, whose son lives in their flat in Belgravia, lost an initial case last year against the Marshall Islands-based Elliott Corporation, which bought the leasehold apartment above theirs for £4.7million in 2010.
In their appeal, their lawyers argued that the bare wooden floor violated a condition of the lease stating that every room, except the kitchen and bathroom, must be carpeted.
Lord Justice Lloyd said this condition was ‘waived’ when the freeholder of the flat approved renovation works, including the wooden floors and under-floor heating system. The judge added that laying carpet over the ‘very expensive’ oak would ruin the effectiveness of the heating system, as well as the ‘clean finish’ of the flat.
The noise of high heels on wooden floors from the flat above has led one couple all the way to the Court of Appeal
The court heard that the legal bills for the case stood at £140,134 – a sum that must now be paid by the Faidis.
Lord Justice Jackson said: ‘If the parties were driven by concern for the well-being of lawyers, they could have given half that sum to the Solicitors Benevolent Association and then resolved their dispute for a modest fraction of the monies left over.’
And, commenting generally on the misery caused by neighbours’ disputes, Lord Justice Ward added: 'Not all neighbours are from hell. They may simply occupy the land of bigotry.
'There may be no escape from hell, but the boundaries of bigotry can, with tact, be changed.
'Give and take is often better than all or nothing'.
The Faidis, whose son currently lives in the flat, which is part of the Grosvenor Estate, told the court they never had cause to complain until a timber floor was installed in the upstairs flat.
Their lawyers argued the sound of clicking heels resounded into their flat and the bare wooden floor violated a condition of the lease demanding that floors of every room except the kitchen and bathroom must be covered with carpet and underlay.
An architect had testified that the oak planks are 'floating” on batons above a concrete base and modern sound insulation in the gap not only meets minimum standards laid down by the landlord, but is a 'considerable improvement” on standard carpeting.
The Faidis had not complained of any unusual activities in the flat above them, No. 8, and the judge said that, laying carpet over the 'very expensive' wooden floor would destroy the effectiveness of the under-floor heating and ruin the 'clean finish' of the radiator-free flat.
'The aesthetic attraction and the adoption of the particular style of using wooden floors would be lost, and the choice of under-floor heaing, to the exclusion of all else, would be rendered not merely futile but positively disadvantageous,” the judge said.
The multi-million pound penthouse is situated just off London's exclusive Sloane Square
Bemoaning the huge legal costs of the case, Lord Justice Lloyd, with the backing of Lords Justice Ward and Jackson, emphasised 'the very great desirability of resort to methods short of litigation to resolve disputes of this kind between neighbours.'
Lord Justice Jackson said: 'This case concerns a dispute between neighbours which should have been capable of sensible resolution without recourse to the courts.'
The dispute over noise has seen the case go all the way to the Court of Appeal in London
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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/victoria/welcome-to-heelsville-elevation-20cm-20120316-1vatr.html
Welcome to Heelsville, elevation 20cm
Janice Breen Burns
March 17, 2012
ANTHONY Bianco makes high-heeled platform shoes that can lift a woman up to 16 centimetres off the ground. If she can walk in them without wobbling or the bandy gait of a sailor, her reward is an elegant chin-up posture, a flattering variation in her height-to-weight ratio and, most desirable of all, the acceptance of her fashionable peers.
Bianco has sold thousands of these miraculous clodhoppers under his Tony Bianco brand in the past seven to eight years. It's a lifespan much longer than most fashion fads, but he gave up trying to fathom why. ''We've even tried to kill it off a couple of times, but it's never died,'' he says cheerfully. ''Sometimes we thought it had slowed down a bit, but then it would just take off again.''
New generations of young women have flocked to buy higher and higher heels and wedges despite risks, from bunions to broken bones, and viral images of hundreds of fashion models wobbling and tumbling on catwalks across the world. ''There are girls now, 15 and 16, 20 and 25, who've never seen anything bar a platform,'' Bianco says. ''They're so used to walking far off the ground anything lower seems strange.''
Supermodel Naomi Campbell's legs-akimbo crash on Vivienne Westwood's catwalk set a legendary standard in 1993. And, models have ''done a Naomi'' in spectacular style since. At Australian Fashion Week 2010, for example, it was inevitable one would tumble off designer Elliot Ward-Fear's 20-centimetre platforms. ''Drama,'' he said simply. ''Catwalk theatre. The higher the better. High shoes take a silhouette to that next level, push the boundaries of conceptual fashion.'' Ward-Fear also likes their more subtle effect. ''You hold yourself differently when you feel the need for more control of body movement,'' he explained. ''When there is that element of risk.'' He is now working on show-stopper 45-centimetre platforms weighing 2½ kilos each. Any woman brave enough to wear them, he said, ''more power to them''.
This week's L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival logged a relatively minor ''model wobble'' incident. However, it was significant considering CEO Graeme Lewsey's policy of model care and safety, and a specially commissioned non-slip catwalk. In one of its highest-profile shows, several models opted to remove their stiletto heeled dagger-toed platforms halfway down the runway rather than risk a topple. ''There's no doubt the [toppling incidents] have increased, probably since those amazing shoes of Alexander McQueen's,'' Lewsey said. ''We have to think of safety first and if models feel uncomfortable or threatened, definitely advise them to remove the shoes and continue.''
According to Dr David Lunz, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital, platform shoes aren't always the horrors they appear. ''Pick an open toe, or one not too narrow so your toes aren't compressed,'' he said. ''Don't wear them to and from work perhaps, and kick them off at lunchtime.'' A wedge platform also generates a shallower, and less injurious angle for the foot. -
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Welcome thoughts from all, especially parents.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3844857/Shops-stilettos-for-girls-aged-6.html
Shop's stilettos for girls aged 6
Mums rap 'sick' firm
By ALEX PEAKE and ROBIN PERRIE
Published: 30 Sep 2011
A SHOE chain was slammed yesterday for selling sexy stilettos with 5in heels — aimed at girls as young as SIX.
Horrified Sarah Shafi, 43, spotted the adult-sounding Queen of the Catwalk style while shopping with her seven-year-old daughter in the children's department at Priceless Shoes.
Slammed ... Priceless Shoes High ... Katie, 9, tries heelsShe said: "They look like the sort of thing a lapdancer would wear. It's utterly disgusting. I went to the shop to buy her some gold party shoes.
"These open-toed black stilettos were reduced from £16 to £7. They were size one, so I guess they are aimed at the six to eight years range.
"They look exactly like an adult pair that has been shrunk for the kids' market. I find it sick."
Sarah, of Leeds, added: "Also children's feet are still developing. They could end up deformed."
Another mum, Rachael Collins, was shocked after allowing daughter Katie to try on the shoes.
Katie, nine, of Wakefield, West Yorks, loved them — but Rachael, 26, said: "It's disgusting that they sell them to kids — it sends completely the wrong message."
There have been many complaints about clothes that sexualise children.
Movie star Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes provoked an outcry when they let their five-year-old daughter Suri wear heels and lipstick.
In the UK, High Street chains Matalan, Primark and Tesco have all been attacked for stocking padded bras for little girls.
Priceless said that the shoe is actually from their very popular Tall & Small range which caters for women with smaller or bigger feet than the sizes usually provided by most High St retailers.
John Hood, Managing Director at Priceless, said: "The Ladies shoes involved had simply been placed back into the kids rack by mistake."
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Hi Guys,
Has anyone heard or seen anything more about these 'rflex' heels?
They look convincing... but a little pricy.
http://onlinestore.raphaelyoung.com/r-flex.html
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I'll be keeping an eye on this thread, hopefully we find a manufacturer who can help! Sign me up for 1 pair in EUR36!
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As per one of the youtube comments, anyone know where the trainers were sourced from?
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Interesting site anyway, it seems heels really can go anywhere!
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Images on the right hand side of deborah stallard in her heels.
She seems to be quite chuffed, and a bit of the celebrity.
DAmn right I say!
Court victory over high-heels
Saturday, June 13, 2009, 10:00
A WOMAN convicted of a motoring offence has been allowed to dodge the unpaid work she was given as punishment – because she can wear only high-heeled shoes.
Deborah Stallard, 47, turned up to carry out the community service after she was convicted for failing to stop and report an accident and failing to provide a breath or blood sample, wearing four-inch heels.
Probation staff told the mother-of-two they breached health and safety regulations and demanded she wear flat boots to carry out the work clearing graffiti.
But Stallard, of Kings Ash Road, Paignton, South Devon, claimed that years of wearing heels had left her with a damaged achilles tendon that made wearing flat shoes painful.
Yesterday, magistrates in Torquay waived the community service after hearing medical evidence on Stallard's behalf – and ordered her to wear an electronic tag for six months instead.
Speaking outside the court, sporting a pair of black leather stilettos, she said she was "fuming".
"This is ridiculous," she said. "Now I'm going to have to put an ankle tag on my heels. I am very angry about this and I will appeal.
"I expect I'll have to wear sandals now, which will be more of a problem for health and safety. I'm not worried about the curfew because I'm in bed then anyway, but I am annoyed about the electronic tag. It's like a wristwatch around my ankle."
Heidi Randle, legal proceedings officer for the probation service, made the application to amend the community service order.
She told magistrates: "Miss Stallard attended unpaid work where the health and safety rules were explained to her. She then arrives at the workshop and on that day, she was wearing four-inch high-heels which are deemed a risk, so she is sent away.
"She sees her officer, and she insists she has to wear heels of that height, and she can't work without wearing heels."
Ms Randle said a medical report supported Stallard's claim. "It pretty much stated that because of wearing heels for so long, her achilles tendon has shortened, so when she doesn't wear heels, she is in pain."
Stallard, who works at a series of convenience stores in Paignton and Torquay, was sentenced on February 16 for the offences committed last year.
Her car was in collision with another vehicle on November 19 but she left the scene of the incident.
She was caught the next day but refused to give officers a breath specimen and, after pleading guilty, was given 80 hours of unpaid work, £60 costs and disqualified from driving for three years.
Defending counsel John Darby told the court yesterday: "The fact she can't carry out this unpaid work is not her fault. It's because of her condition.
"You might think she could work in a charity shop – because her occupation is working in a shop. She does that work in high-heels.
"But the health and safety powers that be, that control the unpaid work situation, will not have the risk of her wearing high-heels."
Chairman of the magistrates Richard Blanchard replaced the unpaid work requirement with a six-month electronically tagged curfew between the hours of midnight and 7am.
He said: "In view of the medical evidence placed before us, we are going to remove the unpaid work requirement, but we are going to replace it with a curfew order."
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I was going to put this in 'extreme heels' but there's content in here for everyone.
So I honestly was'nt sure where to place it. Feel free to move it mods!
Also I've done some searches, and had'nt found this elsewhere, so I believe I'm the first?
I won't comment on the article, I'll leave that to others
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8097320.stm
High heels halt community service
The court heard high heels had affected Stallard's Achilles tendonA woman who has to wear high heels for medical reasons has had a community service order lifted.
Deborah Stallard, 47, from Paignton in Torquay, was given an 80-hour unpaid work order after being convicted of motoring offences earlier this year.
She arrived on site in four-inch heeled boots but was unable to work as she refused to wear protective footwear claiming they caused her pain.
After hearing medical evidence her sentence was changed to a curfew order.
Stallard was convicted for failing to stop and report an accident, and failing to provide a breath or blood sample in February.
The court was told Stallard had refused protective footwear, claiming she could not wear flat shoes because they caused her too much pain.
Heidi Randle, legal proceedings officer for the probation service, made the application to amend the community service order.
I can't believe I'm going to be electronically tagged Deborah Stallard
She told the court a medical report supported Stallard's claim.
"The report pretty much stated because of habit of wearing heels for so long her Achilles tendon has shortened, so when she doesn't wear heels, she is in pain," Ms Randle told magistrates.
Stallard's community service was replaced by a six-month electronic tag curfew between the hours of midnight and 0700.
Outside court, Stallard said the sentence was "unfair" and she was considering an appeal.
"It's a bit harsh - I can't believe I'm going to be electronically tagged," she said.
"It's really unfair and I am going to talk to my solicitor about appealing."
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Bad news everyone: Heels went out of fashion in 1965!
Out with those ballet flats...
http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=82694521nd5.jpg
http://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=18669857oc4.jpg
Edit: I stand corrected, it went out of fashion in 1960!
This one's a full page 56k=no
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Hey Everyone,
I recently came across some content involving heels in old newspapers.
I was finding it so interesting how observers and people of the time spoke about them, that I thought I might share it with you all.
Let me know if you find it interesting, and I'll continue!
Chris
http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=18887050xs9.jpg
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I felt this was the best location for this. I did'nt write this story, however I thought it was such a great find I had to share.
http://searchwarp.com/swa238254.htm
Welcome to Stiletto Boot Camp
A fresh-faced 20-something moves to the big city for her first big job and tiny apartment (you know the drill). She has hitherto spent her life in flip-flops and sneakers. Every day on her way to and from work she passes a shoe store with a pair of black crepe stiletto pumps in the window. She hardly notices them at first. And then, suddenly, she realizes she is finding excuses during the day to walk by that window – lunch, errands, afternoon lattes. Maybe it’s because she’s just been paid or maybe she’s just been watching too many “Sex and the City" reruns, but one day she plucks up her courage and walks in.
A snooty salesman with a foreign accent removes them from their velvet perch and she slips them on -- a perfect fit. She never knew that anything made by mortal hands could make her feel like this! She stands up and begins to walk. As she starts to clump, shuffle and stomp, the salesman raises a horrified hand.
“Stop!!!" he yells, “I can’t take it!! Take those pumps off immediately! You don’t deserve to wear them!"
Without a word, she takes them off and slumps into the nearest chair, her naked toes curled under in shame, her chin resting in the palms of her hands. The spell is broken; the dream is gone. She has never felt so dejected.
The salesman softens slightly. “You know, you’re not born knowing how to do this. Someone has to show you. Didn’t your mother teach you how to do this?"
“My mother got married on the beach in bare feet with flowers in her hair. She doesn’t even own a pair of high heels," she moans.
“Oh, I see," he says with a sigh. “Well, I simply cannot allow myself to sell you these pumps until you have learned to walk with the grace and elegance that such fabulous footwear requires." He sits down next to her.
“You see, my dear, there is magic in a pair of high heels. The minute you slip them on, your feet take on that lovely, rounded arch; your calf muscles shorten to create a shapely leg, and with every step of that heel, less than a square centimeter in size, a small shock wave sends a tiny tremor up the leg to create that lovely, womanly wiggle. Suddenly your legs are impossibly long and lean and become what Frenchmen call the “Stairway to Heaven;" but until you have learned to move in them like a beautiful melody, there is no magic."
She slumps deeper in her seat, not even daring to look at him. When she does look up, he is holding a card out to her. “Here," he says, “call this number. If they can’t help you, no one can."
She looks at the card -- “Stiletto Boot Camp" and a phone number underneath. That night she calls. The following Friday night she and dozens of young girls just like her board a bus.
When they arrive at their destination, a tall, slender woman in impossibly high heels is there to greet them.
“Welcome to Stiletto Boot Camp, Girls. During the next two days, you will work harder than you have ever worked. You are coming in girls, but you are going out women. You will be issued regulation uniforms, which must be worn at all times -- white cotton blouses with starched collars and cuffs, black pencil skirts, and black pointed-toed, four-inch stiletto heels. Your kit bag contains band-aids, lavender foot spray, gel insoles and Epsom salt foot soak packets. You will need them.
The Rules here are simple but strictly enforced. Anyone caught not wearing her regulation stilettos or smuggling in sneakers, flip-flops or (visible shudder!!) Birkenstocks will be dealt with severely."
Following distribution of uniforms and kit bags, the new recruits are ushered into a large briefing room.
“You will now be shown a training film in which a series of gorgeous Hitchcock heroines walk, in some cases float, across the screen. These, Girls, are your role models. Study them, emulate them, think of them every time you put on a pair of high heels. By the time you leave here you will be them."
The lights dim and a hush descends as they watch Grace Kelly make one spectacular entrance after another into Jimmy Stewart’s cramped apartment in Rear Window. Each outfit is more stunning than the last from a voluminous tulle skirt that barely fits through the doorway to a filmy negligee she had earlier removed from the world’s tiniest overnight bag. (Who says we gals can’t pack light?!) One of the last of the great cinematic floaters, Grace’s feet never seem to touch the ground.
Then, they watch a reluctant Kim Novak in Vertigo try on a pair of black stiletto pumps she doesn’t want just to please Jimmy Stewart. Even with a sullen look on her face and her hands stuck resolutely in her pockets as she walks up and down in front of him, her womanly body cannot help but respond to that small shock wave, and neither can he.
And finally, they watch as Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest gracefully descends the steps of a train in a form-fitting little black suit and heels. With pluperfect posture she walks the length of a long platform carrying a fetching little train case, a smiling Cary Grant admiring the view from behind.
“Get a good night’s sleep, Girls. The hard work begins tomorrow. Dismissed!"
Early morning maneuvers are conducted in front of a full-length mirror. Here our young recruit works on posture. When you put on a pair of high heels, your body’s center of gravity shifts slightly forward to the balls of your feet. To correct that imbalance, she learns to arch her back slightly, which automatically moves her shoulders back allowing her to stand up straight. She then practices the pelvic tilt, which creates a nice, flat tummy.
At this point, the angle of the head is most important. It should tilt back ever so slightly, chin up (does wonders for your neck!), so as to complete the line of that perfect posture and add just the right touch of hauteur as she looks down on the world from her new lofty height.
Now she is taught how to walk and, equally important, how to move her arms. Arms must never be held rigidly by your sides, nor should they flail about like demented windmills. They must move forward slightly from the elbow, no more than six inches, with the opposite foot, and back again. The aim is to create a single, fluid motion, with elegance and grace, even under fire.
The final day is devoted to conquering the stairs. Our recruit is taught to ascend the stairs on the balls of her feet, never letting her heels touch the step. (Great for keeping the legs toned!) When descending the stairs, she learns to touch down with the toe and then lightly and quickly with the heel before moving on, never, ever looking down at her feet, which is the quickest way to lose your balance and end up in a little heap at the bottom wondering how you got there. The entire stairway is to be taken in a long, graceful swoop. (My old ballet mistress called it “swallowing" the stairs as you would a raw oyster -- in one glorious gulp!)
That night, on the bus going back, she rubs her sore, tired feet and smiles at the thought of the awkward, clumsy girl who arrived a few days ago -- now but a distant memory. As she dozes, she dreams of her miraculous shoes.
Early the next morning, she passes the shoe store on her way to work and there they are on their velvet perch – her beautiful shoes. The hours tick by more slowly than usual until, at last, it is lunchtime. She can’t resist the urge to run, not walk, to the shoe store. But, as she approaches the storefront window, her heart sinks. Oh, no! They are gone! In their place is an insipid pair of brown T-straps with stacked heels. Someone has purchased her shoes! Distraught, she turns to go and then realizes she cannot leave without knowing. She enters the store. It appears to be empty. Suddenly, the salesman emerges from the back and cradled in his hands are her black crepe stiletto pumps.
“I believe these are yours, Mademoiselle," he says. She sits down. Without a word, he kneels down in front of her, removes her shoes and slips her feet into the new pumps. As she floats out of the store, she knows there will be lots of grilled cheese and tomato soup dinners in her foreseeable future; but she also knows that that is a small price to pay for a miracle.
She still passes the shoe store on her way to and from work every day, but she doesn’t go in. She never sees the salesman, and somehow she knows she never will.
Slammed ... Priceless Shoes
High ... Katie, 9, tries heels
The court heard high heels had affected Stallard's Achilles tendon
I can't believe I'm going to be electronically tagged 
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