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"There&amp;#x27;s no symbol more status-y these days than the fast flash of a cherry red sole on your Christian Louboutin shoes--Jennifer Lopez even immortalized them in a song: &amp;quot;Watch these red bottoms and the back of my jeans, watch me go, bye baby...&amp;quot;--but it seems not everyone is willing to pay full price for the privilege. The ladies over at The Frisky have discovered that a few sellers on eBay have been pushing what they&amp;#x27;re calling &amp;quot;repair soles&amp;quot; for your Louboutins for about $10-$12--though they suspect they&amp;#x27;re really being used to DIY a pair of Nine West pumps to look like the $800 authentic article. They&amp;#x27;re adhesive, so all you have to do is cut them to fit your soles, remove the protective cover from the sticky backing, slap &amp;#x27;em on, and your forgery is complete. Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! They&amp;#x27;re described on eBay as rubber, while true Louboutin soles have a beautifully lacquered sheen that I doubt these can replicate. And while I&amp;#x27;m totally against knockoffs in general (not only do they hurt the designers who work so hard to create something original, but they&amp;#x27;ve been shown to have links to organized crime and terrorism), I&amp;#x27;m especially offended by this bit of trickery, since I scrimped and saved and waited on line in the rain for three hours at the sample sale to procure my own prized pairs! What do you dolls make of this? Do you find it ridiculous that some women would go to such lengths just to make someone believe they were wearing real Louboutins? Or do you confess, you&amp;#x27;d kinda be into this idea? Would you ever trick out your soles to look like they&amp;#x27;re the real deal? Discuss! PLUS: - Celebrity obsession of the moment: Louboutin Clou Noued studded slingbacks - Get a glimpse inside the Christian Louboutin Shoe Library (AKA, Heaven on Earth) - OMFG: Danielle Steel has &amp;quot;at least&amp;quot; 6,000 pairs of Louboutins Glamour stylists answer your fashion questions at WhatToWear.com. Ask away! You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Photo: Net-A-Porter"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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