Q: I really love wearing stiletto heels, but recently I have been getting a bad back. The doctor has told me not to wear them. I feel my life will be worse. Is there nothing I can do?
A: Just stick to wearing them in bed, or anywhere else you happen to be lying down. I never have any problems.
Mrs Mills in the Sunday Times 5 Oct 2003
But they were not a torture nor a humiliation; on these small, precarious pedestals I was beginning to be an object.
The Slave Renato Ghiotto 1967
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
George Herbert (1593-1632)
I’ll wear silk stockings and high- heeled shoes! In this room I’m going to be a woman, not a Party comrade.
Julia in Nineteen Eighty- Four
George Orwell 1949
If you wear a heel, the breast is coming out here, and the ass is out here. That’s what a woman wants. That’s what men love.
Christian Louboutin interviewed by Lisa Grainger in The Times 11 December 2004
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