There are lots on offer, but really they belong to the painfully high-heel trend.

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Baltimore college student Carmen Green arrived in a red cocktail dress and black high-heel booties.

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Dramatically, the German soprano worked hard to fulfill Decker's vision of an exhausted, consumptive courtesan compelled to put on her red dress and high-heel shoes to entertain her savage admirers.

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Hundreds of backgrounds are ready to go, among them depictions of a fish, a skateboarder, a View-Master, a leaf, a lovable monster, a Polaroid camera, a high-heel shoe, a head-banging rocker and a kissing couple.

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New Yorkers shouldering their way through Grand Central Terminal's trench-coated crowds, braving the high-heel-grabbing grates along Lexington Avenue or coursing the taxi slalom around the Met Life and Helmsley buildings may not be following the hotly contested plans for rezoning Midtown East.

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Female desirability begins to be constructed in terms of irrational fashion and the high heel - once separated from its original function of horseback riding - becomes a primary example of impractical dress.

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This year marks US First Lady Michelle Obama's fourth consecutive appearance on the Vanity Fair list, with the magazine noting that she has single-handedly revived arms, belts, cardigans, shifts, high hair and kitten-heel pumps.

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He gave it to me, and I went and knocked on his door, dressed like David Bowie -- big old high heel platform shoes, satin pants, probably had make-up on, with a Les Paul and a notebook pad with all kinds of lyrics in it.

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