Some positive news for accident-prone New Yorkers who love heels: Those annoying subway sidewalk grates that you either have to walk around, teeter over, or risk slipping into are getting a stiletto-friendly makeover.
A New Jersey woman is suing Manhattan's schmancy (if you're into that sort of thing) Gansevoort Hotel after a drunk, belligerent Belgian tourist allegedly stabbed her in the thigh with a stiletto heel during a bachelorette party. For her ensuing troubles, she would like $5 million.
Do you really know what size shoe you wear? Probably not because, like boobs, our bodies are ever changing.
Here's a thing I won't be doing in 2013: Stiletto workouts, the technically-still-a-virgin-if- you-don't-count-in-the-butt cousin of the pole dancing workout. The minds behind the workout claim it's "empowering," which I suppose it kind of is, if you're the sort of person who is empowered by thongs with sassy sayings…
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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]
Oh god, when will it stop? From the looks of it, never:
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]
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]
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
