These new media professionals need restaurants to eat in and bars in which to rest their weary ankle boots.

BBC: A new look for Old Montreal

He certainly looked like a woman: a black dress, no coat, fish-net stockings, ankle boots, shoulder-length wavy hair.

NEWYORKER: The Cold Outside

She was last seen wearing blue jeans, a grey waist-length coat with brown buttons and black ankle boots.

BBC: Missing girl Sameen Ahmed last seen in Glasgow

He is believed to be wearing a black hooded Benzini jacket with bright yellow lettering, black ankle boots and a cap with NY on the front.

BBC: Missing Darlaston children: Police 'very concerned'

The narrow streets are packed to the gills, especially on weekends, when everyone from young hipsters in snakeskin ankle boots to ageing hippies in Birkenstocks is sucked into the action.

BBC: Toronto��s Kensington Market: A loveable hodgepodge

All eyes are on the woman in the centre, who gyrates to the rhythm wearing an outfit that is part punk, part belly-dancer: nose-ring, five-inch platform boots, ankle bells, black bodysuit, sequinned bikini top and a flowing pink skirt.

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