Women's Born, Adele | Shoes Boots 1

I was already a fan of the Born brand and looking for something stylish for casual outfits. I like the steel shank and extra arch support because I have a high arch and a typical ballet flat hurts my feet more than three inch high heels. Wore them almost EVERYDAY in Mumbai for 2 weeks and even brought them to the beach with me and thought I ruined them when the ocean tide almost swept them away in Monterrey. The ruched toe detail adds a current look to the shoe and the seasonal shades of brown and green are just right. These shoes were comfortable right out of the box and the fit and size run true. And for almost every occasion (ie. an anniversary to a fancy play to casual outings) they always looked perfect on my outfits. I know I sound like I’m promoting but I sooo recommend these shoes. I went on long walks in these shoes in San Francisco. I wore these shoes EVERYWHERE....

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A Commune Grows in Brooklyn « Women Born Transsexual

Benn Rasmussen, a 29-year-old dancer who lives with nine people in a sprawling loft nearby, was signing people in. Shira Shaham, 30, a member of the collectively run bike shop Band of Bicycles, was keeping track of the price list. ON a recent drizzly afternoon in Bushwick, Brooklyn, members of the Bushwick Food Cooperative gathered beneath a tent in a ramshackle backyard to claim their share of the weekly harvest. They picked through crates of cilantro and rosemary from a rooftop farm in Long Island City, Queens, and examined pastured eggs from an Amish farm cooperative in Pennsylvania. Then Ariel de Leon, who is affiliated with the Food Not Bombs anarchist movement, arrived with an extra blue Ikea bag for Ms. Shaham to carry her produce in. “My friend makes women’s swimsuits out of those,” someone said. Concepts like sharing and bartering — whether it’s fabric at Etsy Labs in Dumbo or powerboats at SailTime on the Chelsea Piers — are being revived and updated for the Twitter age. In fact, such scenes are not atypical across the greater metropolitan area, where a kind of renaissance in collectives is under way....

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