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 If the shoe fits, buy it in every color.

-         unknown 

You put high heels on and you change.

-         Manolo Blahnik 

I don’t know who invented the high heel, but all men owe him a lot. 

-         Marilyn Monroe 

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. 

-         The Houghton Line, November 1965 

If you haven’t got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

-         Victoria Beckham 

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

-         Gwen Stefani 

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

-         Charlize Theron 

Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.

-         Lita Ford (Musician) 

There was a crooked man, who had a crooked smile, who lived in a shoe, for a… while…

-         Phoebe on Friends 

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We’re all familiar with the expression “If the shoe fits…”, but it turns out that at least 75% of the women asked in a survey said their shoes don’t fit properly.

In a survey conducted by Harper’s Bazaar magazine, about half of the 1,000 UK women questioned admitted to owning more than 30 pairs of shoes. It gets better. One in eight reckoned they had at least 100 pairs.

The study discovered that one in ten women now spend more than $1,000 on shoes each year, and one in four would even choose designer heels over paying the bills.

The magazine also spoke to 1,000 men, with more than 80 per cent agreed stilettoes were the sexiest footwear. Also, half of the men questioned admitted asking their girlfriends to wear just their heels in bed, although about 79 per cent of women said they had had sex wearing just their shoes.

It was also discovered that at least 55% of men had to carry their girlfriends home because her feet hurt.

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Living Together and Your Money (Or What’s Left of It)

Playing House?

You had a little too much to drink?  He slept over, traded your new $3000 mattress in for a water bed and never left?  You had the flu?  She came over with canned chicken soup and stocked your medicine cabinet with Tampax?  So, here you are—cohabitating.  What next?  Who pays what?  How do you bring up the touchy subject?  You’d rather ask your new mate to take an aids test before bringing up the “M” word?  Easy.  Sign a Cohab Agreement—you can do it online.  This will stop Judge Judy from ordering you to pay support to that lazy mooch or that greedy Anna Nicole clone from ending up with your house.

Avoid clashes like “You ate my Fruit Loops…you owe me $2.67!”  We recommend his, hers and ours accounts.  Same-sex couples, substitute “his” and “hers” as needed.  Figure out your fixed monthly expenses.  Each of you contribute half of that amount to the “ours” account.  Pay expenses like rent, mortgage, utilities and groceries out of this account.  Use your own separate accounts to pay for your own clothing, car, gasoline, and entertainment.

Tying the Knot? 

Don’t tie it too tight. To pre-nup or not?  Remember, when money walks out the front door, love walks out the back door.  Suze Orman, author of The Courage to Be Rich, writes, “It’s not a sign of greed, weakness or fear to want the reassurance that you both will be safe, whatever happens, and, in my experience, opening up these issues can bring partners closer together…” 

Discuss spending, saving and investing with your honey—preferably not while having sex. Set goals—buying a house, a new car, retirement or your children’s education.  Make a budget. Save at least 10% of your income for luxuries and emergencies.  Invest wisely—avoid “get rich quick” schemes—no cow dung turbines for you.

Already Blissfully Wed?

A post-nup is a jockstrap for your relationship in the case of death or divorce.  Stuff happens—frugal Aunt Harriet leaves you a fortune, you catch your wife in bed with her yoga instructor. 

How to bring it up?  You say “Now that I’ve quit my job to be a stay at home spouse, I feel that we need to discuss my value.”  If your squeeze says, “What value?”  it’s too late for a post-nup.  If lover boy says, “Now that I’ve inherited the family business, I’m concerned about the division of property,”—put your foot down, preferably on his head—and dial your attorney…fast.

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Video on Christian Louboutin shoes

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A photo shoot for Jimmy Choo.

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 Miss Victoria Beckham has landed on the April cover of UK Vogue, looking fabulous as always. And with 12 pages devoted to her, she recreates the look of Viven Leigh’s character Scarlett O’Hara from Gone with the Wind. 

She talks about her move on from music and focus on her career in fashion. US reports say she is lined up to present a Gordon Ramsay-esque fashion show called Fashion Nightmares. I can’t wait!

If she’s anything like Gordon Ramsay, it should be good for a laugh.

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The Netherlands hosted its 3rd annual ”Stilleto Run” with 150 young women racing down Amsterdam’s most famed fashion street in stiletto heels for a $15,000 prize. This run has grown in popularity and been copied in other places such as Germany, Sweden, Poland and Russia.

  The winner, Tamara Ruben, regretted her choice of shoes, which were nearly 4 inches high — a little higher than the 3 1/2 inch minimum.

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I was reading an article discussing the idea that were such thing as too many shoes. Ha!

But then I started to think about it. Recently, I blogged about the death of the cheap shoe and started to consider there could be such thing.

Although most women won’t openly admit it, the possibility of too many shoes could be tied to what you actually wear. We all have a pair or three in the back of the closet that matched a certain outfit, so we had to have them. But the fact that they hurt like hell and we have no intention of wearing them again is no one’s business but our own.

I have taken a vow, or call it a late resolution, but I plan to clear out my closet of the derelicts, the unwanted, and deadbeats of shoes which I have no use for. I won’t say how many pairs I actually have (Hint: it’s close to my age, but you won’t get that from me either. This year - another anniversary of 27) but my painful pumps and hurty heels have got to go.

So good buy Payless, and all you other fabulously cheap shoe outlets, I’m going cold turkey. I could use a buddy, like AA. Anyone want to quit with me? Besides, disgarding the unwanted gives me more room!

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What do Victoria Beckham, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Uma Thurman all have in common? They all own a heelless pair of shoes from British designer Antonio Berardi. The 5 1/2-inch, heel-less high-heel shoe goes for a mere $3,600 a pair, and already has a five-week back order for them in England. Rumor has it that Miss Beckham has order the snakeskin pair (pictured) while Miss Paltrow and Thurman have both ordered black patent verions.

So what do you think? Hot or Not?

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Many believe that women have wisened up to the fact that cheap equals uncomfortable.

Although many of us will spring a couple hundred for the handbag of our dreams, many still scrimp on the shoes. We’ll endure the blisters, and any other pain that might come with our bargain pumps, but for some reason we’ve had to have the real deal when it comes to a handbag.

I think this is about to change. It might even be a reverse role. We might start seeing women spending on the shoes and going with knockoff handbags. At least an imitation handbag doesn’t hurt! Not in the same way, anyways.

Just remember, the shoes should fit properly when you buy it. You’ll always hear the salesperson tell you it will strech or something, but it really should fit right when you buy.

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