How to Keep Your Feet Happy : NPR

How to Keep Your Feet Happy : NPR

It’s been quite a while since I last blogged. Work and spring hit me hard. I’ll try to be better in the upcoming weeks.

While listening to my usual NPR podcast, this broadcast really hit home. Or rather, my feet. I have Plantar Fasciitis.

“. . . when your heel doesn’t stay attached to your shoe, there’s too much extra motion in the foot.

“Wearing an open-backed shoe, when the heel lifts off the ground, there’s a lot of tension that develops in the plantar fascia, and it increases the angle that the whole foot makes with the ground, and toes bend up further and that just stretches the plantar fascia more.”

I usually wear very sensible shoes (walking or cross-trainers) but I’ve been trying to girly-up my wardrobe this winter and added some slides with 2″ heels. I loved the extra height and not having to hem certain pants. Then came the heel pain in the morning. It was mild in the beginning and got worse as time went on. I tried adding heel cushions to my shoes which were OK but didn’t really solve the problem. I did a little research on heel pain and discovered plantar fasciitis and recognized the symptoms immediately. I’ve been doing exercises regularly and have had some real relief but it’s never gone completely.

This podcast explained alot about the footwear choices that can make a huge difference. My new slides and the springtime flip flops were part of the problem. I really hate dropping the new kicks and I don’t want to wear grandma shoes forever so a happy median must exist somewhere. The exercises from this report are much better than the ones from other sources on the net.

I really should take up foot yoga.

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Tags: feet, health, plantar fasciitis, shoes, pain, fashion

 

Websites and designers face prosecution in new French anorexia law – Times Online

Websites and designers face prosecution in new French anorexia law

Websites and designers face prosecution in new French anorexia law – Times Online

Promoting extreme thinness will become a criminal offence punishable by a jail sentence under a government-backed law that was tabled yesterday in France to combat anorexia nervosa.

Now, I’m all for doing away with the obsession for excessive thinness and helping correct women’s body images (and I really hope that the super thin model ideal stops soon but I doubt it will), but I’m not certain this law is going to do anything affective to fight anorexia nervosa. It’s just going to create more work for lawyers.

Real change needs to occur in the industry, the schools and at home. Until the fashion designers and magazine editors change their attitude, nothing will change. Schools should be teaching healthy habits and outlooks and parents need to be more aware of the problem. More and more girls are starting to think they are too fat at 8 years not 16 years.

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Tags: anorexia, fashion, body-image, thinness, models, health, law, france

 

Guyliner?! Puh-lease!

Guyliner. The new catchphrase for boys behaving girly, joining last year’s manbags (handbags), mandals (sandals), mannies (nannies) and himbos (bimbos). It’s the lexical equivalent of making pink hammers for women.

Eyeliner For Men?! Pencil These Guys In. – washingtonpost.com

It almost always starts with the concealer. The skin-colored glop is the gateway drug of men’s cosmetics. But don’t call it makeup.

“You mean our enhancing and correcting line?” interrupts Marek Hewryk when asked about his men’s makeup line, 4VOO (pronounced “for-vou”).

“Enhancing and correcting line?” – talk about denial.

I don’t care that guys wear makeup (it all started with skin colored Clearasil in the 1960s) but call it cosmetics or make-up. I don’t call a baseball cap a “dirty-hair-hider”.

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Dallas Fashion Police: "Pull Your Pants Up”

NPR : In Dallas, a Hip-Hop Plea: Pull Your Pants Up

Saggin’ — young men wearing their pants with the waistband closer to their knees than their hips — has been around for years. But a growing number of adults are deciding they’ve had enough. In Dallas, an interesting mix of politicians, hip-hop artists and white businessmen are announcing a citywide campaign with a simple message: Pull Your Pants Up.

I’m getting old. I must be because I agree with this sentiment. Click on the link to read the entire story and hear the song “Pull Your Pants Up” by Dooney Da’ Priest:

If you stand up straight, bet your pants fall.
Might as well walk around with your pants off.
Pull ‘em up, pull ‘em up, pull ‘em up.
Be a real man. Stand up.
Is that your underwear, man? Pull your pants up.

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Tags: Saggin, Dallas, fashion, pants

 

Liz Claiborne dead at 78

Liz Claiborne, Designer, Dies at 78 – New York Times

I wore a lot of Liz Claiborne clothes when I first started my professional career. More sepcifically, I wore the Elisabeth line since it was one of the best women’s (large size) lines available at that time. The clothes were classically tailored with fresh colors – no muumuu’s or tent dresses. I wore them until they wore out but they rarely went out of style. She respected the working woman.

Reading the obit, I didn’t realize that her company also owns Dana Buchman, Juicy Couture, Ellen Tracy and Lucky Brand jeans. Good for her.

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