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Steele's sensibility fit Bartsch's wardrobe like a pair of six-inch stiletto fuck-me heels on a drag queen.
As I step sheepishly over to join the 4-H crew, a pair of six-foot Polish ladies strut through the lobby, legs up to their cheekbones in see-through fuck-me heels and micro skirts, escorted by a no-neck bodyguard from central casting.
"My smoking is killing me, my diet's killing me, my heels are killing me, my shopping's killing me, my ego is killing me, can't sleep, it's killing me, my label's killing me".
And to all of you high-heeled keyboard warriors poised to explain to me that heels give you HEIGHT and this makes you feel STRONG and SEXY and YEAH THIRD-WAVE FEMINISM, I say this to you: you're wrong.
As he puts it: "When women ask me about heels, I say, try a pair on.
"I'm very much part of the Sex and the City generation and, for me, high heels will always be synonymous with Carrie Bradshaw.
The editors devote a panel to the practice of converting parts of speech (nouns for verbs, adverbs and adjectives for nouns, etc): eg Antony's "spanielled me at heels"; Prospero's "dark backward and abysm of time".
I tag along as he walks back to his office: Wilson in tennis shoes, me in heels.
I'd like it if they were taller than me in heels, too.
A man whose body is best described as resembling the Pillsbury Dough Boy told me my heels would look good on his shoulder; the group of women around him shrieked with laughter, then started comparing shoes.
But a few years later, I met Malcolm Balk, running coach and Alexander technique teacher, and barefoot aficionado John Woodward, who convinced me that heel striking was inefficient – due to higher braking forces – and hazardous, because the "lump of bone" which is the heel is not designed to accept two to three times body weight – the level of force associated with running.
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