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Islamic authorities in Kota Bharu, a city in northern Malaysia, have distributed pamphlets urging women to forsake bright makeup and high heels to avoid being raped. The authorities (mocked by Malaysian liberals as "Taliban lite") justify their actions by saying they are simply making suggestions for women who want to lead a "100% Islamic" way of life. However, women who want to follow the suggestion against high heels but still want to channel their inner Carrie Bradshaws can do so as long as they pad their heels to mute the sound. Bright red lipstick is still strongly discouraged, because it is so Fall/Winter 2007. [Guardian]
What A Heel
Ladies who went to see Sex And The City over the weekend and are busting out the skyscraper heels had better learn how to walk in them. Good news! Il Primo Passo, a shoe boutique in Santa Monica, offers "Walk Like A Diva" classes. Who teaches women how to strut in stilettos? A man. Specifically, Jazzmun, a drag queen who says, "The heels are the mistress, and you are the slave. Submit." [LA Times]
Necessity is the mother of invention, as these stripper shoes with a tip jar in the platform would illustrate. And at $47.99, they cost less than the price of a lap dance. [Funky Pair via Reverse Cowgirl]
Modern Love
Valentine's Day may be over, but there's still romance in the air: Just read the interview with Coco, the buxom wife of rapper/actor Ice T, over on Playboy.com. Some revelations from the 28-year-old: Ice likes it when she wears heels while they're boning. "I actually keep a pair of shoes next to the bed," she says. "Just in case I don't have them on and we start gettin' busy, I can throw them on." The couple has sex in front of a wall of mirrors: "I'm not the kind of person who gets turned on by other people; he's the same way, too. We like watching ourselves." Coco's ample rear is real! "Ice will let women touch my butt, feel it, grab it, whatever they want to do, to prove that there's nothing in there." And lastly, Ice and Coco have pet names for each other: "I call him Baby Poo. He calls me, 'Bitch, get over here.'" [Playboy]
Valentine's Day may be over, but there's still romance in the air: Just read the interview with Coco, the buxom wife of rapper/actor Ice T, over on Playboy.com. Some revelations from the 28-year-old: Ice likes it when she wears heels while they're boning. "I actually keep a pair of shoes next to the bed," she says. "Just in case I don't have them on and we start gettin' busy, I can throw them on." The couple has sex in front of a wall of mirrors: "I'm not the kind of person who gets turned on by other people; he's the same way, too. We like watching ourselves." Coco's ample rear is real! "Ice will let women touch my butt, feel it, grab it, whatever they want to do, to prove that there's nothing in there." And lastly, Ice and Coco have pet names for each other: "I call him Baby Poo. He calls me, 'Bitch, get over here.'" [Playboy]
dubious studies
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]
drop dead gorgeous
Suffering To Be Beautiful Is Nothing New
Got bunions from heels? Lead in your lipstick? According to a story on MSNBC, women (and men!) have risked their health to look good for centuries. Ancient Egyptians had famously black-rimmed eyes, which were obtained by using a mixture of metal ores, lead, soot and fat. Pink eye, anyone? Says dermatologist Dr. Joel Schlessinger: "The exposure would eventually lead to irritability, insomnia and mental decrease." Sexy! Ancient Greeks and Romans used white lead face cream to "clear complexions of blemishes and to improve the color and texture of the skin." (As we know now, lead can cause skin ruptures, insanity and infertility.) Some scholars believe that the makeup, hair dye, cooking pots, viaducts and drinking cups — all made with lead— are one of the reasons the Roman Empire fell. Fast-forward to the 15th century, when the "dead white" look came back in full-force. For the next three hundred years or so, men and women of the court painted their faces white with a mixture of lead and vinegar. More »
crimes of fashion
You're Not A Real Fashion Victim 'Til You've Landed In The ER
Poor Simon Doonan: the writer and creative director of Barneys New York is suffering from a fashion-inflicted injury, or so he says in his column in this week's New York Observer.I once laughed unsympathetically when my mother's best friend broke her thumb putting on her girdle, and now, lo many years later, God has seen fit to punish me... It's hard to say if my affliction is more or less embarrassing than that girdle-mangling horror of yore. I will let you be the judge. Here goes: I was felled by a man-bag, a Goyard man-bag at that...After two or three years of lugging round my luxe accessory...I incurred a nasty case of bicep tendinitis....[It] is a painful and immobilizing condition involving months of rehab.Motivated by his sorry state, Doonan set out to track down fellow victims of the thing we call fashion. After all, who amongst us has not pulled a Linda Wells? (Says the Allure editor-in-chief: "There I was in the dressing room, trapped in a designer straitjacket [aka - a Prada turtleneck], mortified...I still can't understand how one can get into something but not get out of it.") More »
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]
yule blog
We're taking Christmas Day off (woo hoo!) to relax and eat and drink and temporarily forget about rape, Amy Winehouse, missing white women, Paul Janka, Jamie Lynn Spears, Photoshopped celebs, Sherri Shepherd, hookers, victims, doormats, Tyra Banks, and well, just female trouble in general. Speaking of which, we leave you with one of our favorite Christmas scenes in cinematic history, from John Waters' Female Trouble. We hope you get the cha-cha heels of your dreams this holiday season!
Merry Christmas! Love, Jezebel (Via Dawn Davenport)
We're taking Christmas Day off (woo hoo!) to relax and eat and drink and temporarily forget about rape, Amy Winehouse, missing white women, Paul Janka, Jamie Lynn Spears, Photoshopped celebs, Sherri Shepherd, hookers, victims, doormats, Tyra Banks, and well, just female trouble in general. Speaking of which, we leave you with one of our favorite Christmas scenes in cinematic history, from John Waters' Female Trouble. We hope you get the cha-cha heels of your dreams this holiday season!
A word of advice, ladies: Travel in practical shoes. Please. And 18- and 23-year old woman were killed yesterday in California after being unable to escape a train collision because there were wearing heels. The awesomest part about taking a train is that it is so relaxing and comfy. So throw on your trainers when boarding any mode of transportation. Because really, we seriously don't even believe that Victoria Beckham keeps her ridiculous shoes on all the time. (Hullo, remember in her Coming to America special? She drives in flats!) Safety over fashion, always. [CBS News]
Back in the day, doctors did commercials for cigarettes, and they also endorsed high-heels as being physically and psychologically beneficial for women, since heels apparently make breasts look bigger and legs look thinner. Well, we do know they make our asses look better, so they weren't all wrong! (Click on tag for full-sized image.) [Modern Mechanix]
pumped up
Marc Jacobs Shoes: A Step In The Wrong Direction
In Marc Jacobs' collection for spring 2008, the designer showed clothes with shoes that were a wee bit unusual. Yesterday, Erin Kelly described them in the Daily Mail: "A chunky, four-inch heel nestles horizontally just under the ball of the foot. Where you'd expect a heel, there is nothing but fresh air." The shoes, which are expected to cost between $500 and $700, are actually the center of a controversy at quirky fashionista blog Bryanboy, where Bryan points out that designer Junko Shimada showed similar shoes in her fall 2007 show. No matter who makes the clodhoppers, Lisa Surridge, a lecturer in foot health, declares, "These shoes would impair the normal function of the foot." More »
well-heeled
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 »
what a heel
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 »
broadsides
Don't You Know? Jordan's Breasts Are For Flashing Not Nursing!
- Breast milk proponents in the UK are calling for a ban on baby formula advertisements after an ad appeared alongside a photo of mammary-enhanced new mom Jordan in a gossip rag. Um, clearly she was just worried about the baby suffocating. [Daily Mail]
- Statistics show that while more women vote than men, single gals don't vote as much as married women. People, register to vote already! [Feministing]
- A female Air Force officer is facing a court martial for refusing to testify in her own rape case. The charges against the alleged rapists were dropped and now she's being charged with underage drinking and "committing indecent acts". If convicted, she'll have to register as a sex offender. The mind boggles. [Houston Chronicle]
high heels, low hopes
How Rupert Murdoch Is Bad For Women: 'Fashion Journal' Smackdown Edition
You asked us to find a way News Corp.'s acquisition of Dow Jones was bad for women, and in today's Wall Street Journal we finally found our answer in the form of not one, but two separate lady-penned "Personal Journal" section stories exhorting the womyns to wear uncomfortable clothes in the workplace, even when it's a workplace called your couch. Advises author and veteran apparel industry reporter Teri Agins on telecommuting chic:By all means, dress comfortably, but get out of those sloppy sweats, pajamas and terry-cloth slippers...ladies, keep your hair coiffed and put on some lipstick.But just alongside her on page D8 she is so totally one-upped by longtime hospitality industry reporter Christina Binkley, who manages to find a blogger who wears stilettos on the job for the "intimidation factor."
At 5'9½ in bare feet, a pair of heels leaves Kristin Bentz, who runs a fashion-investment blog, towering over many men in a room. "I totally use the shoes for the intimidation factor — for women and for men," she says.More »
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