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"made by hand"—by naked female artisans. The English are fine, fine footwear makers. I've had one pair of now-discontinued John Fluevog boots (
update: which as a commenter has pointed out, are made in
CANADA, not England, as I thought. Well Dr. Martens are well-made.
update #2: the majority of Fluevog shoes are actually made in
Poland & Portugal.) for about 13 years, and they are still sharp and still going strong.
But these models...such supple uppers...smooth lines...well-built...you STOP staring at those lady parts! These
John White shoe ads are wrong wrong wrong! Such gratuitous sex! Shame on you, you randy Brits. These shameful portraits of shamelessness have now been entered into copyranter's Advertising Gratuitous T&A Hall of Shame, hanging next to these
French,
German and
American examples. For SHAME!!! (I gotta say, with the second ad above (
R), the frilly thing gets in the way of my consumerist thought process.)
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