Earlier this year Blair purchased "Heels and Horsepower" from Diane Caplan, a high-end car club for women with half-million dollar cars. Brett Coomer/Staff photographer Caplan was strict.

While the mental image of 100 high heel novices learning to walk in them all at once is a humorous image (it's hard at first!), the event did end up influencing GM's product lines.

Racers and onlookers crammed onto 17th Street NW on Tuesday night for the 36th annual High Heel Race. What is a high heel race? It’s exactly what it sounds like: a footrace in which the ...