31.   It was groundbreaking for its time, what with King Herod strutting around on platform shoes and Christ being depicted as a man with human needs and desires.

32.   King Louis XIV was unhappy with his height and began a movement to platform shoes among men.

33.   Lagerfeld put towering platform shoes and giant jeweled brooches on the models, going against the prevailing trend of dainty shoes and a minimum of jewelry.

34.   Like the poster, it serves up a huge dose of the past with shots of an eight-track player, platform shoes and Ditto shorts.

35.   More than two years ago, platform shoes and hip huggers sneaked back into teen fashions.

36.   Most startlingly, he added surreal Egyptian gods played by eight basketball players in platform shoes wearing full-body, illuminated costumes.

37.   Now, like platform shoes being liberated from the back of the closet, chrome is coming back.

38.   Occasionally, you need to go through and chuck those platform shoes and Qiana shirts to make room for your Eddie Bauers, right?

39.   Nothing prepares you for the moment when the three first appear in their outrageous silver-and-white costumes, capes and platform shoes.

40.   Older children already are fixated on overweight British women with platform shoes and Cockney accents.