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NEWS ABOUT: high heels

high heels stories: 5 news summaries

 Schreiber 'Giddy' in Drag 

Actor finds cross-dressing 'exhilaratingly humiliating'

Aug 26, 09 10:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Acting is all about challenging yourself—just ask Liev Schreiber, who had to get a full body wax, sport a dress and master walking in high heels for his role as a transvestite in Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, People reports. “It was exhilaratingly humiliating," Schreiber said of... More »

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fashion • Ang Lee • cross dressing • Naomi Watts • high heels • Liev Schreiber • transvestite • Taking Woodstock

FASHION ROUNDUP

 Vegan Shoes Walk Right In 

Plus, white bucks are back and heels are lowered

Jul 9, 09 11:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Veganism isn’t just for food anymore. “Times have never been better for vegan fashion,” a PETA spokesperson says. “Vegan apparel and accessories companies are sprouting up everywhere in the US.” The Wall Street Journal tried out three pairs of vegan shoes and determined that synthetic... More »

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fashion • shoes • vegan • trend • high heels • footwear • Jay-ZTV • white bucks

Bank of England Orders Its Women Into Heels, Lipstick

When in trouble, male execs turn to makeup

Feb 1, 09 7:56 AM CST
(Newser) - The battered Bank of England has ordered its female workers into heels and at the very least lipstick, igniting a firestorm of controversy. The institution, facing one of the worst economic slumps in history, took time out to hold a seminar teaching its women how to look "feminine" without... More »

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short skirt • Bank of England • lipstick • sex discrimination • office workers • makeup • high heels

 Hurt Volleyballer 
 Likely on DWTS DL 

Olympic volleyballer is hurt, could drop out of reality show

Oct 5, 08 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Olympic beach volleyball gold-medalist Misty May-Treanor suffered an injury that may knock her out of competition this season—of ABC's Dancing With the Stars, reports People. The athlete, who has cited wearing heels as one of her biggest ballroom challenges, did not break her ankle, but no further details about... More »

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reality TV • Dancing with the Stars • injury • high heels • Misty May-Treanor

 Women Hot on Gwyneth's Heels 

Actress sports oh-so-high stilettos, and sales skyrocket

May 10, 08 7:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gwyneth Paltrow's choice to wear Pacini heels as high as 6, 7 or, gasp!, 8 inches while traveling the world to promote her turn as Pepper Potts in Iron Man has spiked sales of the heels in Britain's trendier shops, the Independent reports. Credit crunch, begone: The "Gwyneth-effect" is... More »

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celebrity • Britain • Gwyneth Paltrow • Iron Man • high heels • stilettos

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