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...high winds, their flaring legs can flap like sails, tending to impede walking. "If a woman speeds around in them too quickly," says Los Angeles designer Jim Reva, "she'll trip on" the flowing hems. Palazzos also tempt women to pull the baggy britches on over their shoes, a procedure that can be dangerous. One Atlanta girl successfully got one shoe in but snagged the other on the voluminous hem and fell on her nose...
Unlike the elevators, the new high-risers are not intended primarily for the short. "They ought to stay away from the extreme height," advises Bob Smith of Richards shoe store in Hollywood...
Bucking the high-heeled trend is the KalsØ Earth Shoe, which is made with contoured wooden soles that slope downward toward the back. The KalsØ company claims that having the heels lower than the soles results in a natural, barefoot style of walking and a more erect stance, thus avoiding "the fatigue and aches caused by living in a cement-coated world." The price for the barefoot feeling: from...
...deficit. The league administers programs, many of them federal, that involve spending some $60 million. Carrying out such programs on its $4 million-a-year general operations budget, says Jordan, "is like me, standing 6 ft. 4 in. and weighing 236 Ibs., wearing a size-2 shoe. I couldn't stand up. We need additional administrative overhead to enable us to carry on." In order to get fresh funds, the league is putting more emphasis on soliciting contributions, even approaching the children of generous supporters in the hope, says Jordan, "that they will do the right thing like their...
...Water, about a typical New Jersey family mistaken for spies in Eastern Europe. He had acquired the ultimate badge of show-biz success: his first divorce. Harlene later sued him for defamation of character, citing his repeated insults on the Tonight Show. ("The Museum of Natural History took her shoe and, based on her measurement, they reconstructed a dinosaur.") In 1966 Allen was married again, this time to Actress Louise Lasser, daughter of S. Jay Lasser, the tax expert. Woody could have used a little of his father-in-law's advice: his income was around...