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Today, clogs are mainly associated with the north of England, but this hard-wearing, affordable footwear was common across Britain from Victorian times right through World War Two. With a shaped woode

‘I’ve never been a particularly esoteric person,’ Nicola Benedetti tells me as we sit down to talk following the press launch of her third Edinburgh Festival. And yet, as she explains the theme of thi

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The “naked dress” has killed individuality and fashion

How to look after your feet Our feet are the first things that make contact with the ground when we run. When they hit the ground, they spread the force of our body into the ground, and also then tran