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A Petition Banning the Heels-At-Work Rule for Women

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A British petition calling for a ban on a ludicrous office rule requiring women to wear heels has hit 150,000+ signatures in just a couple days. Nicole Thorp started the petition after she was sent home for refusing to wear shoes with two- to four-inch heels at work. The overwhelming response will now require Parliament to respond to the petition and to debate the rule. …

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Saigon Socialite Shoes

Elaborately crafted soles reincarnating Vietnam's artisanal villages through the ancient art of pagoda-carving

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The elaborately carved soles of Saigon Socialite are the brainchild of LanVy Nguyen, born in Vietnam and raised in California. A corporate finance veteran, in 2007 Nguyen embarked on what she calls the “education of my life,” which began in a Vietnamese factory. A new openness had brought foreign investors seeking high skill, low cost labor, and while Nguyen admired the effect such infrastructure had …