{"id":27274,"date":"2017-08-03T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T07:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=27274"},"modified":"2017-08-03T00:01:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T07:01:58","slug":"spike-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/spike-heels\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike Heels — Feminist? Feminine? Or Both?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spike heels and bling. Photo by barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s face it. Spike heels aren’t much good for doing what real women do most days — drive an SUV, stand in line at the check-out counter, empty the dishwasher, clear the gunk from between the planks in the decking. You’d think stilettos would have passed into history long ago — along with garter belts and nylons with seams up the back.<\/p>\n

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Christina at the barre — in pink. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The same goes for the inch-long fingernail. Now that women are keyboarding and texting all the day long, you’d think that we’d all be wearing our nails tidy and short.<\/p>\n

But no. Seventeen years into the new millennium, spikes and fingernails are still with us. What gives?<\/p>\n

Check out this post — “A Case of the Human Condition: Feminine, Feminist Pink”<\/a> — written for the Oakland Tribune when the twenty-first century still seemed impossibly far in the future.<\/p>\n

At the time I wrote this piece,\u00a0I was sure that spike heels and inch-long fingernails would be so last century by now.\u00a0But here we are, with a toe hold in the 21st century, and fingernails\u00a0and spike heels are as long — and scary — as ever.<\/p>\n

Whatever happened to pink, btw? The pink so adored by little girls, but by grown, stiletto-heeled women, not so much? Read all about it at “A Case of the Human Condition: Feminine, Feminist Pink”\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Case of the Human Condition: Feminine, Feminist Pink<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n