Patent leather ballet flats paired with brightly colored tights pitter-pattered down a red lacquered runway.

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This is a big ol' sweet love story about sons, the families we make and red patent leather.

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Chelsea, dressed in a sleek black sheath dress and black patent leather pumps with four-inch spike heels, her blonde tresses framing her broad smile, seemed completely at home on stage.

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The three-and-a-half-inch red peep-toe patent leather pumps - that's something I've never said on the air before - three-and-a-half-inch red peep-toe patent leather pumps are now selling like hotcakes on at least one online shoe site.

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The Phosphor Reveal line offers six style choices: pink, red, white and black patent leather for women with crystal-adorned face frame, and two black matte leather men's band choices with or without adorned top ring.

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But in a new interview with Playboy, McCain who I recently interviewed at SXSW and who was, I have to say, among the best-dressed (read: patent leather pumps) and heavily made-up conference attendees shot back at Palin.

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The most loquacious shoe in the show is Prada's patent-leather "Flame" wedge of last spring, in STP red.

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She was dressed in stylish business clothes black patent-leather high heels, a knee-length, copper-colored dress, and a short-waisted black jacket and looked more like a media executive than a food-industry chieftain.

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