41.   One patient, who sprained her ankle last year but continues to wear the platform shoes, was asked if she was not afraid of falling again.

42.   Platform shoes can be just as tough for pedestrians, reducing some women to lying sprawled on the sidewalk.

43.   Platform shoes.

44.   Perched on two-inch platform shoes, Ryoko Ahta adjusted and readjusted two flowering eucalyptus stems in a cocktail shaker.

45.   Platform oil drilling was In, platform shoes were Out.

46.   Platform shoes are sending fashionites to new heights.

47.   Platform shoes came next, then super lowrise pants and rhinestone-studded tops.

48.   Sort of like bell-bottoms and platform shoes.

49.   Still, creating a successful site is as unpredictable as forecasting the return of bell-bottoms and platform shoes.

50.   Tailored suits have ousted grungey frocks and platform shoes from the catwalks this year, but the fashion industry is undergoing an even more radical redesign.