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...decades ago, the typical comfort-shoe customer was a 50-year-old who wanted a pull-on number with a gummy sole. Today traditional comfort brands like Aerosoles count among their clients college kids drawn in by hip T-strap sandals, go-go boots with 3-in. heels and mock-croc peep-toes adorned with silver buckles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BODY & MIND: Healthy Heels | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...have almost 60% of the populations of Egypt and Saudi Arabia under 30, and 50% under 18. We have to engage in a way that offers them some alternative to the radical madrasahs that are educating them to hate and to go out and strap explosives around themselves. They [the Bush Administration] haven't even engaged in a legitimate effort to try to really transform the ability of Israel to find a legitimate entity to negotiate with. The only thing they do is rattle the saber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: I've Been in Worse Situations | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...manufacturers are also available to the bad guys." But who are the "bad guys" here? To me, it's just as criminal to soak consumers for $1,465 more per handbag just because the real thing has a genuine leather zipper toggle and one less stitch on the handle strap. Jeff Deitrich State College, Pennsylvania, U.S. Only an idiot would spend $1,500 for a purse. I fail to see the appeal of these products. They are not attractive, practical or economical. The only selling point is that expensive designer bags are covered with the maker's logo. But that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/12/2004 | See Source »

...available to the bad guys." But who are the bad guys here? To me, it's just as criminal to soak consumers for $1,465 more per handbag just because the real Louis Vuitton Speedy bag has a genuine leather zipper toggle and one less stitch on the handle strap. JEFF DEITRICH State College, Penn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 23, 2004 | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...same bag--or what looks like it, anyway--can be had for $35. A California woman, in town with her fiance last week, was spotted perusing a table stacked with fake Vuitton, Kate Spade and Marc Jacobs handbags. She was looking for a new Vuitton bag because the strap on the one she bought in Chinatown had already broken. "I need a new bag, and I don't want to pay $600 for the real thing," she said with a shrug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Purse-Party Blues | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

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