<![CDATA[Jezebel: Stilettos]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Stilettos]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/stilettos http://jezebel.com/tag/stilettos <![CDATA[Valentine's Day Crackdown Abroad • Woman Protects Pup, Punches Coyote]]> • Saudi policemen have begun a crackdown on Valentine's Day items, including red roses, heart-shaped products or gifts wrapped in red. Celebration of the Hallmark holiday is banned in Saudi Arabia, as is celebration of some other Western holidays. •  More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5469419&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Crimes Of Fashion]]> Chetania Davis, 22, has been given a year of probation for stabbing her 52-year-old coworker with a stiletto heel. Davis reportedly attacked the new performer at the Ohio strip club because she didn't think they needed more dancers. [AP] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5381380&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Tedious, Endless, Self-Righteous Heel Debate Rages On]]> Oh god, when will it stop? From the looks of it, never: More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5378094&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Stilettos Are Not Good For Feet (And Other Living Things)]]> On her first day as an exotic dancer, a 52-year-old Ohio woman was attacked "by a jealous co-worker wielding a stiletto heel, police said." The victim required seven staples. [MSNBC] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5221268&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Worst Toy Of The Year]]> And! The winner (loser) of the TOADY (Toys Oppressive And Destructive to Young Children) Award is… Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Barbie, whose "skimpy outfit" lets children view her "impossibly long legs and dangerously thin body." [Brandfreak] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5152979&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sexual Heeling]]> Look, no one wears 4" heels cause she thinks they are good for her health! We know heels fuck with knees and backs and tendons, create hammer toes and bunions and basically cripple you for life. The problem is, for some of us, that moment when you slip on your first pair of pumps is a watershed: damn the torpedoes, there's no going back. the Daily Mail gives a very dreary rundown of all the dire consequences of our glamor — apparently they're especially awful for the developing feet of teens — but then at the end, this familiar-sounding gem: "Italian research suggests women who wear up to a 2in heel may enjoy a better sex life. That's because holding the foot at a 15-degree angle - as with a 2in heel - increases electrical activity in the pelvic muscles that play a vital role in sexual performance and satisfaction." 2"? Maybe we can cut down to that. [Daily Mail] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5047493&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Killer Heels]]> This morning, two teenage sisters in Florida were badly beaten with high heel shoes by approximately 30 members of a girl gang known as "The Rock Star Girls" and "The Cheerleaders" in the parking lot of a nightspot known as "Club Crunk." The gang members approached the two victims as they were waiting in the parking lot after being denied entry into the club when three of the members took off their shoes and began beating them. One of the members beat the girls with an eight-inch brown stiletto heel (ugly shoes for an ugly personalities!) while saying "B, I am gonna kill you" and another stating "B, I fight to kill." The victims were left with deep cuts on their face that required hospital treatment. The police were alerted when the victim's mother called 911 and told police "Look at my babies, they were beaten at a club by, like, 30 hoes." Ouch! Let this be a lesson: Beware of women with horrible taste in footwear. [The Smoking Gun] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5034828&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Dollar May Be Low, But Heels Are High, And Getting Higher]]> Yesterday's Independent featured a story by Harriet Walker about skyscraper heels. Prompted, of course, by Victoria Beckham making an appearance in spindly 5 inch stilettos. Writes Walker: "Just when you thought heels couldn't get any higher, guess what: they have." This season, Prada, Louboutin and Dior all have towering heels. And the Giambattista Valli shoes for fall (pictured) have a retro feel, but with platforms and heels so high they almost seem designed for toppling over. The Daily Mail points out that high heels have been around since 3500BC, when Ancient Egyptian noble women picked their way through the pyramids. Hundreds of years, billions of aching feet, twisted ankles, throbbing bunions and crusty corns. Why do we do it? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5028152&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Winehouse + Cavalli = Animal Prints And Cigarettes]]>
  • Oh sweet Jesus: Is Amy Winehouse going to be the new face of Roberto Cavalli? And if so, who would be sullying whose image? Though the rumors are still unconfirmed, Cavalli has said in the past, "She is a fashion icon because she is unique." [Vogue UK]
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]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=374003&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ English high-end retailer Harvey Nicks is...]]> English high-end retailer Harvey Nicks is doing, uh, absolutely nothing to reverse gender stereotypes. Their latest advert (as they call it on that side of the pond) features a graph that makes a connection between the height of a woman's heels and the attractiveness of the sort of man she can land. Let us say from personal experience that wearing spiky shoes has never once landed us a man. A straight one, that is. [Copyranter] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=345616&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Raise your hand if you think that high heels...]]> Raise your hand if you think that high heels are good for your feet. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? That's what we thought. But thankfully, now we know exactly how we're fucking up our bodies, thanks to this handy-dandy chart, which carefully documents each and every part of the body radically impaired by towering heels. To see the full size image, click on the thumbnail pic. [Boing Boing] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=341628&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Fashion Writer Wears Fashionable Shoes, Loses Will To Live]]> Liz Jones (left), a writer for the Daily Mail, may look like a happy person, but she went on a crazy, sadistic mission: to wear eight different pairs of cutting-edge high heels during Fashion Week. All of the shoes were "ankle-breakingly high," with at least a four-inch heel and often a one-inch platform. And Ms. Jones never wears heels. She's a flip-flops girl "come rain or shine." Her report? "One week on and I have lost the will to live. I have so many blisters I have stopped counting." Leaving the country via Newark Airport, Jones was offered a wheelchair because she was hobbling so badly. But of course, at the shows, she was well-received. "Photographers for avant-garde Japanese publications, who normally shove me out the way at the couture shows, clamoured to take pictures of my vertiginous shoes," she claims. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=301866&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Fallen Foot Arches... So Hot Right Now!]]> Camilla Morton is seriously, seriously anti-Crocs. So are we, especially since we saw original hot douche-tard Jared Leto parading around in a silver pair last year. But Morton, author of the book Girl for All Seasons: The Year in High Heels, feels similarly about all manners of casual dress, from running sneakers to ballet flats, and calls upon women to wear 6-inch stilettos to assert their sexiness and femininity. We hate footwear that makes the human race look like a parade of clown-footed goofs too, but is this bitch crazy? Six inches? Our dogs start barking after a few blocks in three-inch wedges, so maybe we're just too amateur to our respect our inner womanhood this much. After all, Morton says:
Heels are one of the most potent weapons a woman has, so why not stand on that portable pedestal and admire the view?
And then admire it in reverse — flat on your face! More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=299110&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[And Again We Say: Paris Hilton Must Be Stopped]]>
  • We said it eight hours ago and we'll say it again: God is dead. Because Paris Hilton has a Teen Choice Award nomination. [TMZ]
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]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=275866&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[And Then There Were None...]]> First they came for our stilettos, and we did not speak, because they were creating too much pain and credit card debt. Then they came for our flip-flops, and we did not speak, because we knew in our heart of hearts they were ugly anyway. But today they came for our ballet flats, and we did not speak, because we were so fucking gobsmacked we threw up our larynx. More »
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