From the Maeil Kyeongje (via Yonhap), a summary of a New York Times article:

미국의 한 신발업자가 사람들로 붐비는 나이트클럽 안에 신발가게를 열고 앞으로 미국 전역에서 이같은 사업을 전개하겠다고 밝혔다.

뉴욕에 있는 ‘백악관 나이트클럽‘에 신발가게를 연 도드 샤피로 사장은 25일자 뉴욕 타임스와의 인터뷰에서 자신과 데이트를 하던 한 여성의 높은 신발굽이 부러지 는 것을 보고 사업 아이디어를 얻었다고 밝혔다.

샤피로 사장은 미국의 현충일(메모리얼 데이)인 지난 5월 28일 개점한 이래 영 업이 순조로우며 최근 하루 저녁에는 28켤레를 팔기도 했다고 소개하고 “앞으로 나 이트클럽에서 술을 주문하는 대신에 신발을 주문할 수 있게 될 것“이라고 기염을 토 했다.

샤피로 사장은 “손님들이 새로 산 신발을 신고 바로 춤을 출 수 있도록 하기 위 해 헌 신발 보관 서비스도 하고 있다“고 밝혔다.

“At the Hampton Shoe Vixen, inside the White House Night Club, Aldo Rodriguez fits Susan Mariakais before a night of dancing.” (Photo by Phil Manno)

WHEN she arrived at the White House Night Club here on a recent Saturday night, Danielle Bory was wearing lacy black stilettos. As she danced, her heels slipped on the wooden floor.

“I almost fell,” she said.

But the club, filled with 1,800 patrons, was hopping. The rapper Flavor Flav was onstage. Ms. Bory, 21, a student from North Babylon, wanted to keep dancing.

So she went shopping. At the Hampton Shoe Vixen, a women’s shoe store inside the club, she tried on a pair of flat silver metallic sandals.

“It’s a lot more comfortable,” Ms. Bory said, as she bought the $40 sandals and headed back onto the dance floor. “They have rubber soles on the bottom, so I should be fine.”

The 45,000-square-foot club, formerly the Canoe Place Inn, a nightspot on the Shinnecock Canal, dates to 1707 and was once a speakeasy. Recently renovated, it has three dance floors, including an outdoor patio where a reggae band often performs. The shops — the shoe store, a lingerie boutique and a novelty boutique stocked with fitted T-shirts, tank tops, lip balm, fragrances and condoms emblazoned with the club’s logo — opened on Memorial Day weekend.

“You can only take so much music and dancing,” said Vic Latino, 32, a co-owner of the club and a disc jockey on XM satellite radio. “We need to give people eye candy.”

Todd Shapiro, 42, the owner of the shoe boutique, an offshoot of the Hampton Shoe Vixen in East Quogue, came up with the idea for the store after going out with a woman who broke a stiletto heel.

“She said, ‘I have to go home,’ ” he recalled. “I said, ‘The date’s still young.’ ”

Mr. Shapiro, who also owns a Garden City-based public relations company, is hoping to open shoe stores in nightclubs nationwide.

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