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Shanghai Chic — It’s All About the Shoes in This Skyscraping Town of 24 Million

September 27, 2013 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Bright blue-green high top sneakers on a bare-legged Shanghai girl. Photo by BF Newhall
Shanghai chic: A gaggle of girls shopping on a September weekend. Photo by BF Newhall

By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Young people are flocking to swashbuckling, get-rich-quick Shanghai. Come back soon to see what they’re wearing on their feet.

I’m just back from a two-week blitz tour of China and am off to Austin for a Religion Newswriters Association conference tomorrow.

There will be plenty to share when I get back. With more on Shanghai Chic

 

 

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