"I was trying on a pair of thigh-high boots recently which were utterly ridiculous," Dr. Haimoff said.
A display case upstairs contained more relics, including a dingy pair of thigh-high white stockings embroidered with the initials "C.W".
Last November, she put on some lingerie and a pair of thigh-high yellow rain boots, and walked in the Victoria's Secret fashion show.
"You have to go to a sex shop to get this spray to polish them," she once said of a pair of thigh-high PVC boots she wore for a Macy's appearance.
On this particular afternoon, she was wearing striped boxer shorts with a pair of thigh-high cream leather stiletto boots, and over them a wasp-waisted rust-colored bathrobe with a kind of lining/train that consisted of a child's teddy-bear-patterned flannel bottom sheet that Bianca had designed especially for her.
I clicked on a link, and on-screen appeared a pair of thigh-high black platform boots along with a statement that the program had 149,421 daily users who send one another digital replicas of foil-wrapped condoms, black thongs and cans of something called Mr. Whipped Cream.
10 A.M. (Showtime 2) KINKY BOOTS (2006) In the movie that begot the Broadway hit, a strapping London drag queen (Chiwetel Ejiofor) saves a failing men's shoe factory in the dreary British Midlands by strutting a pair of thigh-high red stiletto boots, which she calls "tubular sex".
But four hours into day one I was longing for a half-pipe, a beer and a pair of thighs that weren't screaming.
"You have a healthy ass and a pair of thighs to fill out a pair of shorts and give them an extra fit," he said.
"I find it very difficult to listen to anybody preach to me about being single when they've got a pair of thighs in their bed every night," she said that night.
Froome is a curious hybrid athlete, a wafer-thin climber – "an x-ray on top of a pair of thighs," as one French paper put it – but able to time-trial at record speeds.
