Lynette Lewis, a business consultant and author of Climbing the Ladder in Stilettos, concurs.
The contestants include a Caribbean-born transvestite who totters across the mud in stilettos and a germ-phobic choreographer who dons rubber gloves while trying to herd sheep.
Some work the room aggressively, dressed in sequins and stilettos while older women linger with a drink at the bar.
And, yes, they do have the temerity to ask for something in return for their engagement and loyalty, not to mention the effort of balancing on stilettos and walking from store-to-store for hours on end.
The four-storey museum houses more than 12, 500 shoes from different cultures spanning 4, 500 years of history, including pairs of 16th-century Venetian platform shoes known as chopines (which range between 15 and 50cm in height, sometimes too tall for a woman to walk unaccompanied), bear fur boots worn by the Japanese samurai and golden stilettos by modern designer Manolo Blahnik.
Then, spice it up by learning how to make salsa... or to shake the salsa, if you prefer stilettos to seasonings.
Painful practices such as waxing - not only of legs but also underarms and pubic area - have become near-compulsory for young women, alongside dieting, eyebrow threading, spray tans, false lashes, stilettos and visits to the nail bar and the hair salon.
Trucks ferry all types of kicks, from Crocs to Christian Lacroix stilettos, to and from the UPS hub all day and night.
Trucks ferry all types of kicks, from Crocs (nasdaq: CROX - news - people ) to Christian Lacroix stilettos, to and from the UPS hub all day and night.
When Grendel's mother emerges from the slime as the delicately airbrushed Angelina, her feet are cloven stilettos and her long ponytail curves behind like a dragon's tail.
Parents have the option to remain standing or sit on plush chairs shaped like stilettos.
Even men can strap on stilettos for male-division runs in Buffalo, New York and the Philippines, refusing to let female footwear give them cold feet.
To trade in my fashion week stilettos for cooking flip-flops to spend time with my family taught me the importance of slowing things down and savoring the truly important things in life that we often take for granted.
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And author Miranda Sawyer, who grew up in Cheshire's Wilmslow - "a pink jumper, white stilettos kind of a town" - and wrote Park and Ride about suburban culture, says the 'burbs have always exerted a huge influence on mainstream society.
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