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Article: INSIDER.
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- Footwear News
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- August 15, 2005
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Byline: Brian Russak
Another WSA come and gone. First off, what's with all the smoking?! Insider, too, has been known to occasionally inhale in Vegas (in the evening), but the plumes and plumes of cigarette smoke throughout the convention centers all day long is just not fun. Shoe people appear to be actively re-embracing that particular vice.
IN DA DEUCE & MIX: Insider met up with the Skechers crew at Mandalay's retro-feeling, super-sexy burlesque-club extraordinaire, Forty Deuce. Wild-and-crazy Marty Brown, SVP of corporate imaging, held court next to the stage (and on it, too), but behind a few velvet ropes -- with bottle service, natch. How much fun ...