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Wear shoes that are even slightly tight, and you will be unable to stand. Try running in shoes that are not meant for that purpose, and your feet will hurt for weeks
After all my sneering about women and handbags in previous editions of this column, I now have to try and defend the male of the species. I've always found it extraordinary that women are prepared to pay as much for a handbag as the rest of us would pay for a small car. It isn't that the bag itself is particularly expensive to make. Markups of 800% or more are routine. But clever marketers have persuaded women that an 'it' bag or a limited edition handbag are so desirable that the prices should bear no relation to the cost of manufacture.
For happy feet: Gucci shoes for men can cost as much as a Louis Vuitton purse. Photograph: Harikrishna Katragadda / Mint / Gucci Showroom, The Oberoi, New DelhiMany women have pointed out to me that such sneers could easily be directed at men as well. Sure, we don't use handbags. But we do wear shoes. And unscrupulous marketers are able to extract such high premiums from vain men that we seem almost as foolish as the women who pay thousands of dollars for bags.
I have usually retorted, in defence of men, that shoes are a complicated business. A handbag started out as a convenience but soon became an adornment. Shoes, on the other hand, are essentials. You can't really leave the house barefoot. And because we wear shoes for most of the day, it is important that they fit perfectly. Wear shoes that are even slightly tight, and you will be unable to stand. Try running in shoes that are not meant for that purpose,[url=http://nikefree.mobilejeti.com]nike free sko[/url], and your feet will hurt for weeks.
So, I have argued, there is no parallel between bags and shoes. When a woman pays $5,000 (around Rs210,000) for a designer handbag, she is buying a status symbol. When a man splashes out on a $500 pair of shoes, he is buying a lifetime of comfort and investing in the future of his feet.
Take the arguments that I offer on behalf of men and their shoes and turn them around to defend women and their Jimmy Choos. Suddenly, you begin to realize quite how hollow they are. No woman who buys Jimmy Choo or Prada is buying comfort or taking care of the arches of her feet. Often, she is actually buying discomfort, given how high the heels can be. Admittedly, there are shoemakers Manolo Blahnik and Christian Louboutin, for instance who do pay attention to the balance of a ballet pump and ensure that their shoes remain light on the feet. But rarely do women buy their shoes for comfort alone. Even with Blahnik and Louboutin fans, the primary motivation is fashion and, perhaps, snob value.
Sadly, the same is true of men. I am as willing as the next guy to admire a nice pair of Gucci loafers or to marvel at Prada's ability to set fashion trends in footwear. But even I do not believe that somebody who shells out hundreds of dollars for Prada or Gucci is terribly concerned about comfort. We buy the shoes because they look nice.
And when we have to explain to ourselves how we can justify buying shoes that are three or four times more expensive than ordinary highstreet brands, we swallow deeply and argue that, of course, for Prada, Gucci and the like, one has to pay a little bit more.
So, are we so very different from the women who crowd the Louis Vuitton boutiques looking for the latest limited edition bags of each season?
Are we being duped? Should we refuse to buy into the great fashion footwear scam?
Well, that's an individual decision. And I don't think that any absolute rules apply. Nobody is going to rot in hell for eternity because they bought a pair of Prada shoes on impulse. We're all entitled to our luxuries.
Speaking for myself, however, I find that I spend less and less money on shoes these days. This is not because shoes are unimportant. Quite the opposite in fact. It's because they are too important a matter to be left to fashion.
A few years ago, I worked out that when it came to shoes, only three things mattered: the quality (leather and workmanship), the fit and the look. I found that with designer shoes, the look was always right but neither the quality nor the fit were necessarily what I was looking for. Often, the trendy brands would sacrifice a comfortable fit in the pursuit of a fashionable look. The leather was never bad. But rarely was it particularly special. And as for the workmanship, shorn of the marketing hype, designer shoes were essentially industrial goods, manufactured in huge factories in vast numbers.
So, I decided to work backwards. If I was looking for quality workmanship, where should I go? The obvious answer was to avoid the global labels with their mass production. I found a small Thai label called Ragazze which made fashionable shoes of high quality and still managed to sell them at onefourth the price of the highfashion labels.
Then, couple of years ago, I thought more about it. If the Thais could do it, then surely Indians could do it as well. Why didn't I find somebody who would make my shoes for me by hand?
Fortunately, I rediscovered Joy, a label I remembered from my Bombay days. I've known Munna Jhaveri, its owner, for decades. Somehow, it never occurred to me to get him to make my shoes. But once I made that jump, it seemed entirely logical to put my feet in his hands.
So now, Munna makes all my shoes and sandals. They are made to my exact size (my feet are broader than average), I choose the leather, Munna and I work out the styles together, and Joy's workmen produce worldclass shoes in a fortnight to three weeks.
The best part? I wish I could say it came from the pleasure of encouraging traditional craftsmanship or of wearing shoes that fit as only custommade footwear can.
Actually, the best part is the price. At a time when all the foreign labels are setting up shop in Mumbai and selling very ordinary, industrially manufactured shoes at upwards of Rs20,000 a pair, Munna makes me bespoke shoes at a fourth of their price.
That is one of the pleasures of living in India. You get worldclass quality, without the hype and handmade to your requirements at a very Indian price.

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in Shaanxi this winter, dry weather, high incidence of respiratory disease, the public should enhance protection awareness. Experts reminded the public to develop healthy habits, parents should try to avoid children to crowded public places, such as shopping malls, theaters,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], hospitals,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], go wash your face, go home immediately after the wash,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], nasal cavity. Holiday life should be the law, do not stay up late, binge eating, sleep every day in 10 hours or more, eat more fruits rich in vitamin C, vegetables and moderately high calorie, high protein food. Drink boiling water, maintain indoor air circulation. Do more outdoor activities, more than the sun.
reportedly, every year in October to next March is the peak season of influenza in the province, from the province's 18 influenza sentinel hospital monitoring situation, cases of influenza incidence overall last year than the year before last winter winter is reduced, with the influenza a H1N1 influenza, also have A type, B type and other seasonal flu. Recently, a flow of cases has increased, but the basic is a mild case, no death case.
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, according to media reports, Beijing, Hongkong people are a flow off the flu, is expected to peak will last to the end of 3. Reporter was informed yesterday, the recent Shaanxi province swine flu cases has increased, but with a mild,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], no deaths.
Shaanxi province CDC experts said, the symptoms, a flow and ordinary flu symptoms similar,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], not through the laboratory test cannot separately, as an infectious disease, it will exist throughout the year. A flow of the most obvious symptom first appeared similar to ordinary flu symptoms, fever,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], sore muscle increased significantly, accompanied by redness of the eyes, cough, sore throat, dizziness, headache, diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms or the symptom. Some patients with rapid disease progression, ferocious, temperatures above 39 degrees Celsius, or secondary to severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary hemorrhage,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], pleural effusion, renal failure, respiratory failure, sepsis and multiple organ damage, leading to death. But as long as timely treatment, can quickly cure,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], recover completely,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], do not have to worry too much.
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experts say, this year's flu vaccine by the influenza a H1N1 influenza virus strains of influenza a H3N2 influenza virus, and influenza B virus strain, can prevent a flow, but also can prevent seasonal influenza,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], epidemic period still inoculation. (reporter Li Lin Zhang Li)
since the beginning of this year, Beijing has reported 195 confirmed cases of influenza a H1N1 influenza, 4 cases of death, 1 cases died during the Spring Festival, Hongkong recently two weeks, 9 people have died,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the number of patients increased,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], severe cases are also included in young children.
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December 6,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 2011 morning, God disc highway serious congestion, the nearby villagers open tricycle to stranded drivers selling breakfast. Reporter Yao Zhiwei perturbation
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Fu Dian Lu, God pan Lu,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Yulin section of national highway 210, Yulin highway is the current coal Sinotrans three main lines. Every day,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], tens of thousands of heavy trucks, the three roads will Yulin coal shipped across the country.
"God road length of 58 kilometers, in 2006 began to have the phenomenon of traffic jams. Since 2010 February, nearly every day all the traffic jam." Shenmu county police brigade God disc Squadron Officer He Erjun told reporters, before two days due to heavy snow in Shanxi, causing God to road traffic jam situation is more serious.
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"yesterday afternoon at three or four, a Banya Shenmu a toll station traffic jam began, has been blocked until 8 this morning. Unexpectedly just walked ten miles and blocked. Bored to death! "Dong Weibian ate and complained about, from Shenmu to Liaocheng this way, he has been running for more than three years, almost every time when traffic jam,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," time is the shortest, the four day I arrived, but it was now five days, not out of Shenmu county go back to ten, estimate to days. Caught in the traffic jam,[url=http://www.rouleau-peinture.fr/category/veste-moncler|veste]moncler[/url], eat and drink Lazard almost entirely in the car, the hotel also dare not to the side of the road, because they do not know what time the car move, if is eating, the car you can't get back on the trouble, the other car super later, want to plug into the team almost impossible."
increasing, overload operation is far more than the road capacity, together with the adjacent Shanxi Province Road and Shaanxi road is not good convergence, which leads to the three "coal road" perennial congestion, stop coal vehicle roadside every hundred miles, become unavoidable coal.
compared to God pan Road, Fu Dian highway drivers to "happiness" is much more. In December 5, 2011, the reporter on the scene saw, although due to gauge stations, toll station site, the coal cars will form the Hydra > in some sections
it is understood,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Yulin coal production in 2011 is expected to reach 2.8 tons, of which about 30% are in situ conversion, the rest to other provinces. Yulin City Department of Transportation Secretary Wang Kening said: "Yulin's coal to meet the Shandong,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Hebei, Liaoning, Henan, Jiangsu and other provinces of the coal demand. However,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], highway design flow and actual flow difference is the common cause of Yulin several coal main road jam. In other words, too many cars! "
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