Wooden platforms have taken a chunky and extreme turn for spring 09. Tapping into the 1970s inspired trend, thick soles and high, pale-wooden heels featured on womens styles. Some clog and wooden mule ...

"Big Daddy" Tom Grassel of Conestoga admires mules. Likes their loyalty. Appreciates their carefulness. So about a dozen years ago - when, by his own reckoning, he officially became "older" and more ...