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CONTENTS
FROM THE EDIT
OR
Kinky Boots
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INDUSTRY NEWS
T
he world is divided. There are those for whom the bed-
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EDITOR'S CHOICE
Ladies Formal Shoes
room conjures up net curtains, candlewick bedspreads,
well-puffed-up-pillows and that comfy pair of slippers.
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MISFIT
Then there are the rest of you whose imagination
knows no bounds, for whom the bedroom is not a place: it is
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TALKING SHOP
an excuse, an excuse for dressing up – and dressing down.
September is 14
EROTIC FOOTWEAR
perhaps a bit early
Kinky boots
to talk about the
nights drawing in.
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SLIPPERS
But it is time to
Don't get sloppy
prepare for those
long evenings when
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MODA REVIEW
some slipper-clad
folk will conclude
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KENSINGTON SHOE EVENT SUPPLEMENT
“there’s nothing on
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PURE REVIEW
telly”. They will
shuffle upstairs to don flannel nightgowns or pyjamas for
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ACCESSORY FOCUS
an early night with a cup of cocoa having had the presence Patrick Cox handbags
of mind to turned on the electric blanket an hour or so
beforehand. 40
MICAM REVIEW
Then are the others who will take advantage of early
night, but not rely on an electric blanket for their heat! This 42
GDS REVIEW
may all sound a bit saucy but the world no longer suffers
from the lament of transvestite, Lola, in the 2005 film Kinky
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LEGAL
September 2009
Boots, that there was insufficient fetish footwear on the
market. She then helped to convert a dying pedestrian
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You’d have to be a bit po-faced not to find some of the
fetish footwear fun – or on the wrong feet, simply funny.
EDITOR Cheryl Taylor: footwear@datateam.co.uk • CONTRIBUTING
However, supplying footwear to lap-dancers, strippers, EDITOR Adam Bernstein • ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER John
clubbers and the rest, is a lucrative business!
Andrews: 01622 699135 jandrews@datateam.co.uk • SENIOR SALES
Of course you do not have to be old to wear slippers but
EXECUTIVE Paul Clappison: 01622 699185 pclappison@datateam.co.uk
it’s worth noting that the charity Age Concern has
• DESIGNER Lorna Crosbie-Smith • ADMINISTRATION Ellie Straton
• PUBLISHER Paul Ryder: pryder@datateam.co.uk
promoted a campaign to swap “sloppy slippers” for a safer
Published by: Datateam Publishing Ltd, London Road, Maidstone, Kent
new pair. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
ME16 8LY. Tel: 01622 687031 Fax: 01622 757646
(RoSPA) has in the past warned of that sloppy slipper are a email: footwear@datateam.co.uk website: www.datateam.co.uk
contributory factor in many home falls, particularly among
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the elderly.
The Publishers cannot accept res-ponsibility for any discrepancies either in copy
We also report back on some of the amazing shows that
or between products and/or services listed. Nor can they be responsible for
Media Partner of the
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illustrations and/or copy for products which lead to infringement of copyright.
we visited in the summer to give you an idea of what
shoemakers are hoping you will be selling once the January
The Independent Footwear Retailers Association endorses
sales are out of the way, plus previews of upcoming shows
Footwear Today as a valuable forum for the British footwear
industry, helping to promote trade and keeping retailers
including Micam in Milan, GDS in Dusselforf and the
informed about the latest products and developments.
Kensington Shoe Event.
Best regards,
Cheryl Taylor,
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