Hans Christian Andersen used the red shoe as a symbol of wealth and vanity in his morality fairytale The Red Shoes.
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Right now there are a number of behind-the-scenes features (and, earlier this year, one random episode of Red Shoe Diaries) that anyone can view for free.
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In a room at the lab a researcher picks up a Nokia N75 and aims the phone's camera at a red shoe, and immediately the phone retrieves from the Web information about nearby shoe stores.
Samsung smart phone spat, a U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that Yves Saint Laurent may continue selling shoes with red soles as long as the whole shoe is red.
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One particular mark of class distinction was the red-heeled shoe, which aristos began sporting in the 1600s.
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The multicoloured balls in bubble-gum machines could be picked up in a girl's dress, or the red of a stiletto shoe matched with the frame of a shop window.
The Second Circuit court, though, also decreed that Christian Louboutin retains the exclusive right to use the color red on the bottom of its shoes whenever the outer portion of the shoe is any color besides red.
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However, the appeals court said that the evidence presented demonstrated that Louboutin's mark is closely associated with contrast and that nearly every one of the consumers who misidentified that shoe's maker in Louboutin surveys cited the shoe's red sole, rather than its general red color.
Few things could be less functional than shiny red paint on the sole of a shoe, where it almost immediately will be scuffed.
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More recently, red soles have brought glamour and sex appeal to the shoe.
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There, as a schoolboy, he had encountered a sign that featured a shoe with a spiky heel in the middle of a red circle with a diagonal slash.
Underneath, seven white shoe boxes were piled, presumably containing the various sizes of the red leather shoes that popes traditionally wear.
The three-and-a-half-inch red peep-toe patent leather pumps - that's something I've never said on the air before - three-and-a-half-inch red peep-toe patent leather pumps are now selling like hotcakes on at least one online shoe site.
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