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...workers their jobs. Makers of low-end goods are already suffering. The Guangdong city of Huidong was home to 3,000 shoe factories at the beginning of 2007, but as many as 500 of them have closed over the past 15 months, says Li Peng, secretary of the Asia Footwear Association in Hong Kong. One-sixth of 44,200 textile firms tracked by the China National Textile and Apparel Council lost money last year and two-thirds are just breaking even. "Manufacturers' profits are so low that when they hit the slightest snag, they have to close," says...
...shins. Back then, gladiator sandals served a practical purpose, but today?nearly 2,000 years later?they cater to a very different crowd, turning up at modern-day spectacles (think movie premieres and nightclub sorties) for purely sartorial purposes. In recent seasons, the fashion flock has adopted the tough footwear as its own form of armor. The style has proved an able antidote to a flowery dress for Sarah Jessica Parker and helped Mary-Kate Olsen bring the sky-high look of a miniskirt back down to earth. With many of the modern incarnations featuring weapon-like stiletto heels, they...
...decade of battling U.S.-backed contra insurgents, many of its supporters from the United States and Europe packed up their bandanas and Birkenstocks and went home with a good story. The Nicaraguan revolution was over, and most of the "Sandalistas" (the nickname that combined their preferences in politics and footwear) saw no point in staying on: There was nothing sexy about helping out a centrist transition government led by a grandmotherly widow when you'd been drawn here by the allure of a regime of guerrilla poets...
During the meetings, participants use old revolutionary phrases - "the pedagogy of the oppressed", "liberation struggles" and "cosmovision." Their politics are unabashedly leftist, their preference is for the poor, and their footwear is varied. In fact, at a time when even Ortega is courting transnational investors for free-trade zones and negotiating agreements with the IMF, the group at Casa Bin Linder seems more traditionally Sandinista than today's Sandinistas are themselves...
...velvet skirt. The last time velvet was acceptable in a skirt was during the Elizabethan era. This is because they didn’t have the advantages of furnaces or insulation. They also enjoyed bear-baiting. 8. High-heeled, thick-soled loafers. This particular brand of perennially scuffed footwear is popular among the women of Harvard. I don’t really understand this. The last time I saw this pair of shoes outside Harvard was when I watched “French Kiss” with Meg Ryan. I was 10. 7. Glitter makeup. This trend makes quite...