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This unmistakably hot dress by Zac Posen from the Spring 2011 runway is available for $2,400 on style.com.

It’s remarkably the same dress, with flattering pleats on the chest and a disco print on a mid-length halter. Do me a favor, don’t use its pockets.

I have a newfound appreciation for pole dancers. It’s not as easy as it looks heaving your body around a tubular piece of metal while wearing heels.

I discovered this during a pole dancing “taster” session that my niece bought me for my birthday. Not only is it physically demanding, pole dancing also comes with hidden potential dangers such as friction burns and sore wrists. Not to mention the possibility of twisting an ankle if you don’t land correctly following a spin.

To twirl and lift your own body weight around a pole and do so with grace is a skill that I’m not going to pursue, but now appreciate in others. I joined a group of around 15 women, all in tiny shorts and heels, as I attempted to look like Kate Moss in the White Stripes video for I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself.

I can throw a few shapes thanks to my years as a dedicated clubber, but as I quickly learned, not while whizzing around a pole. While pole dancers are to be admired for their gymnastics, I cannot quite extend that admiration for their taste in Perspex shoes. Read the rest of this entry »

During the obligatory careers one-to-one offered by my school, a physics teacher doubling as advisor pushed a list of potential employment options towards me

I think it was the “girl’s list” because it had things like florist and nurse on it, but pride of place, the number one slot, went to hairdressing. When I asked about journalism, the fog grew denser. It was as though I’d asked to order “off-menu” in a café that only served spam. When she insisted we discuss something off the list, I realised there was no point pushing it.

I let her go into the details of chopping and colouring hair for a living, while I showed my indignation by staring out of the window. You see, back home in 1987, hairdressing didn’t have a glam image and was considered something girls did instead of becoming teenage mothers. Today, it’s a potential path to fame and fortune. And while I live in a one-bedroom flat, my hairdressing peers are probably swanking around palatial houses in Solihull. Read the rest of this entry »

Apparently, we need more shoes. The recurring statistic of women owning around 30 pairs is just not enough according to New Look, which launched a campaign to get that quota upped with a party at its Oxford Street store.

I’m not sure if it was the three glasses of champagne I managed to neck within an hour (thirsty work looking at shoes) or the fact that it was 25 per cent off purchases that evening, but I found myself handing over three pairs of shoes to the till assistant.

I also think it was because I realised I’d miscalculated the number of shoes I owned when asked to contribute to the Shoe-o-Meter. I said around 60 pairs, which to most men is 55 pairs too many, but back home I counted and it was more like 56. Although the board of shame did assuage my guilt when I realised the editorial staff of Bliss magazine are hording around 80 pairs each. Read the rest of this entry »

What kind of woman wears a killer heel? Any woman with a pack of cushioned plasters and a determined mind, I’d say.

Style magazine asked the question as to who dares to climb above three inches in their heels, and it made for interesting reading to discover that Condoleezza Rice is in the club. I’ve been told by one serious heel-wearer that the trick is to buy expensive shoes, the more noughts on the end of the price tag, the more comfort you can expect. I think this is nonsense, I own a pair of 5in black strappy sandals that cost £20 and yet I can easily wear them all day and into the evening too.

A former colleague bought into this expensive shoe equals comfort myth and spent the equivalent of a luxury holiday on finding a pair of Jimmy Choos that didn’t pinch her toes. The fact is the majority of shoes, even expensive ones, are made to standard shapes and sizes. The only way to guarantee complete comfort is to order a pair of bespoke shoes. Other than that, it’s down to luck if you find a pair of shoes, especially heels, that you can wear without leaving bloodstains on the lining.