MAR
2010
16

The Ugg Shuffle

Manolo says, accept no substitutes, even for your ridiculous Ugg boots. But medical experts have warned that the trend for cheap Ugg boots is a price too high to pay. They have said that knock-off versions of the designer boots are crippling a generation of young women, ‘literally breaking’ their feet. With just six months of wear women could saddle themselves with a lifetime of foot deformities, backache and pain in their feet. And a phrase has even been coined for the gait of devoted wearers – the Ugg ‘shuffle’ – which describes the lopsided, pigeon-toed way in which cheap…

MAR
2010
16

What the Manolo Is…

Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is… Watching… Reading… Listening to… It is nearly St. Patrick’s Day, with all that means for people who like to drink too much green beer, listen to diddly-diddly fiddle music, fist fight with the authorities, and pretend to weep about the “auld sod”. In short, it is time to drink and think romantically about the Irish. And yet, strangely, attempts to anti-romanticize the Irish experience are even more compellingly romantic than the old-fashioned Emerald Isle blather. Shane MacGowan, Martin McDonagh, and even those insufferable frauds, the McCourt brothers, describe…