For reasons I will never fully understand, one of the most popular Reverse Cowgirl posts this year was "Stripper Nation," which featured a pair of stripper shoes that had a coin slot in the platform in which men could, ah, insert their, um, tips. Why was that post so popular? Who knows. Perhaps it was the intersection of sex and economy. At the time, I was no doubt influenced by Dlisted, a site I read with embarrassing frequency, and the writer of which is highly obsessed with Shauna Sands, who wears Lucite stripper shoes like kids wear Converse. In any case, today Dlisted points to a German fashion show that was part of Berlin Fashion Week, where the models wore Lucite stripper shoes that were decorated with flowers. The designer, Scherer González, makes some pretty wild clothes, including accordion-bottomed bustiers and fox stoles with the skulls exposed, that are one part McQueen and one part Mugler. The New York Times says: "The result is an unequivocal argument for repression." On the other hand, Dlisted says: "You know Christian Louboutin is stabbing his dick with a stiletto heel for not coming up with this shit."
