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Shoe designs took great strides in 20th-century fashion, not sparing any extremes. Platform shoes caused ankle sprains, and stiletto heels punctured museum floors. Audrey Hepburn brought relief with the ballerina slipper, and hippies went back to nature barefoot. The sneaker took care of all our comfort woes. But will anybody ever discover a shoe that is both comfortable and sexy?

"From very long pointed toes in the Middle Ages to exotic creations of the 1990s, the story of footwear is a lively and evocative reflection of styles, fashions and moments in history. In Henry VIII's time, for example, exaggerated shapes and wide toes mirrored the aggressive social climate, while engravings of Queen Victoria showed impossibly narrow slippers in pursuit of nineteenth-century ideals of daintiness." "Engravings, paintings and advertisements...

"This fabulously illustrated book explores western culture's fascination with extravagant and fashionable shoes. Over the past decade, shoe design has become increasingly central to fashion, with fashion companies paying ever more attention to shoes and other accessories. High-heeled shoes, in particular, have become the fashion accessory of the 21st century. Co-written by one of the world's leading historians of fashion and an authority on fashion...

Already a Christmas classic, The Christmas Shoes, is an extraordinary tale based on the remarkably popular song of the same name. The heartwarming story by NewSong instantly soared to the top of the charts, mesmerizing listeners. The book has captured the hearts of readers everywhere. It follows the paths of a man and a boy through one fateful, snowy Christmas. Beautifully rendered and poignantly touching VanLiere tells the story of hope, love, and...

Until relatively recently, Louboutin shoes were one of fashion's best-kept secrets: worn only by the fashion elite, the well-heeled and Hollywood A-listers, who would unflinchingly spend thousands on the red-soled super- heels. Now, Louboutin shoes are a familiar, instantly recognisable status symbol. With unfettered access to Louboutin himself at home in Paris and Lisbon, his Paris workshops, as he opens his new Mumbai store with its exclusive bespoke...

Sharing with readers her experiences, problems and joys of the domestic life, the author divides her material into three parts: The wife, The house, and The family. Phyllis McGinley discusses such subjects as higher education for women, thrift, domestic help and how not to kill your husband.

There is considerable excitement at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe's office. Then a nurse from a local clinic reveals that faulty blood-pressure readings are being recorded. And Botswana has a new advice columnist, Aunty Emang, whose advice is rather curt for Mma Ramotswe's taste. All this means a lot of work for our heroine and her assistant, Grace Makutsi. But there's trouble brewing in Mma Makutsi's...

This film is commissioned buy the Social Studies Department of the University of Sheffield and attempts to delve into the power of the shoes and find it's importance in our daily lives, through participants of the If the Shoe Fits research project, chats with people on the streets, artists and experts. We wear shoes everyday, have many different pairs for different occasions and purposes and we now buy more shoes than ever, have more choice than never...

Shoe Fleur: A Footwear Fantasy debuts an outrageous imaginary collection of botanical shoes and accessories created by photographer and artist Michel Tcherevkoff. Each virtual shoe and handbag is amazingly crafted out of numerous photographs of a single plant or flower. The result is both organic and cutting edge. Art, attitude, romance, and nature combine in this garden of flirtatious footwear presented here in fashion's latest avant-guarde offering....