There was a time in Summer Brennan's life when she wore high heels almost every day — when she was working at the United Nations. It was a place, as she describes it, of "suits and ties, skirts and ...

Dolly Parton said that if she ever needs a wheelchair, she'll still wear her towering high heels. She said that her style icon, 1930s Hollywood star Mae West, did just that at the end of her life.

When I was very young, my parents surprised me with a pair of ruby red slippers. The Wizard of Oz was one of my favorite films, and Dorothy’s adventure was the exact kind of story in which I wanted to ...