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"The next time you&amp;#x27;re feeling a teensy bit guilty about Pining the bejesus out of your lust-list shoes or racking up the charges on your credit card with impractical (and painful) drop-dead gorgeous pair of heels, consider this:In this week&amp;#x27;s New Yorker, writer John Seabrook profiled Federico Marchetti the founder of e-commerce uber-emporium, Yoox.com and unearthed this gem: &amp;quot;Toward the end of the year, Yoox got a large order for expensive women&amp;#x27;s shoes, which someone noticed came from a convent in Umbria. Like the Pope, the nuns apparently liked wearing fancy shoes--and they weren&amp;#x27;t flats. &amp;quot;When we figured out who had made the order, we called the convent and told them they could have the shoes for free,&amp;quot; Marchetti told me. &amp;quot;The nuns said they would pray for us. So maybe that explains our success.&amp;quot; Well, the higher the heel the closer to heaven, right? The New Yorker archives have the full story (it&amp;#x27;s on newsstands now too) and in the meantime, flip through Yoox.com&amp;#x27;s massive designer shoe inventory and try to imagine which of the shoes would make the nuns&amp;#x27; wish list. The mind reels, but here&amp;#x27;s a start: More Givenchy... I&amp;#x27;m so glad us heel-lovers are in such good company. Since we&amp;#x27;re on the subject of shoes... Did you hear the one about how authorities seized $18m worth of fake Louboutins? Or how this shoe ad was banned? And finally, the $5, 5-minute trick that makes any shoe more comfortable (bet the nuns know this trick)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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