At 8 inches tall, the all-black exterior of the shoe is the highest cut of any basketball shoe on the market and is designed to resemble the silhouette of a military combat boot.

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You can also see a grunge influence on children of the '90s like Phillip Lim, who paired a floral dress with combat-boot-like sandals, and Derek Lam, who tossed a slouchy sweatshirt over an embellished skirt.

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Patricia Foulkrod, a veteran director and producer of documentaries, cuts the recollections and ruminations into fragments and then reassembles the fragments into chronological stages: recruitment, boot camp, combat, return, followed by the long, dismaying coda, in which the men and women struggle not to fall apart.

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