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Sunday, November 6, 2011
One-Percenter Maureen Dowd: The Calves and Calves-Not
NYT columnista Maureen Dowd knifes a fellow shoe freak scribe at archrival (NYT v WSJ) News Corp's NYP. Maureen devotes Sunday's column to the twice-yearly shoe free-for-all known as the Manolo Blahnik sample sale wrangled by Vogue's André Leon Talley.
Why do women wear high heels anyway? Maureen quotes French shoe artisan Christian Louboutin (he of the red soles): “It’s because it gives the woman’s foot the same curve” and arch “as pleasure does” in the boudoir.
There is still hope for terminally single Maureen (59) to experience Arc de Triomphe:
There is still hope for terminally single Maureen (59) to experience Arc de Triomphe:
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BTW the bordello reference: Henri Toulouse-Lautrec died of syphillis and alcoholism.
ReplyDeleteA glamorous 75-year-old in a fedora looking at leopard-print stingray d'Orsays confides to Talley: "Twenty years ago I got on an elevator in d'Orsay pumps and I was engaged the next day."
ReplyDeletePardon me madam, Going down?
Very, very, VERY funny, Scott! Wish I woulda thought of your line...
ReplyDeleteThe company which finally makes a good-looking dressy women's sneaker suitable for the office will make a fortune.
ReplyDeleteBunions
ReplyDeleteNever happen! There's no market for it, Jim. Easy Spirit tried it twenty-odd years ago. The shoe that thinks it's a sneaker or whatever. Pumps. Personally I thought they were unremarkable and rather ugly.
ReplyDeleteYou've seen me endure hours in stilettos at those radio conventions.
And it was worth every viewing moment.
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