Why do women where heels? Nature or nurture? Now we can trace the answer back to the crib…. with Heelarious, her first heels. A soft high-heeled crib shoe, these heels are not intended for walking. They are intended to provoke laughter (at the expense of your child and you). A humane way to gently ease [...]

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Though ethnically ambiguous in my own gene pool, I really love “Stuff White People Like.” Just for highlighting the “whiteness” of New Balance shoes made from good ol’ USA workers. and then peppering it with quotes like: “white people who jog are generally viewed as being better than white people who don’t. Although perhaps it’s [...]

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As Billy Joel sang Saturday night, “There’s no business like shoe business.” Overall I can’t say that the World Shoe Association seemed like a great show in Vegas. I think MAGIC, a week earlier, would have been a better trip. Luckily the materials show adjacent to it was eye opening. If anything, most of what [...]

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