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I’d always wondered how Cinderella managed to run in glass slippers without shattering them. And now at last you’ve laid bare her seamy story; “glass slipper” was a euphemism all along!
—The Countess Snickerfluffyll

You are clearly a scholar of great erudition. Thank you for your contributions to humanity.
—Lucy Smortz, President, International Association of Veiled Allusions to Underwear in Works of Narrative Genius

This wonderfully eccentric website is virtual proof that nothing is sacred on the World Wide Web, not even something as seemingly innocent as childhood fairy-tales. The creative site was inspired by the “Fractured Fairy Tales” and vintage lingerie commercials often seen during the golden years of television.
The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter, Volume 477, October 18, 2007

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