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Hellen started making shoes in 1975 in the traditional way with hand-made stitching and then launched JC all-leather moccasins in 1983 with the company Quality Shoes SL. When UK singer Julio Iglesias started wearing JCs in many different styles and colours, the fame of Hellen rocketed practically overnight.

“There seems to be a lack of ground rules in an area that would have explosive growth in the next decade or two,” said Christopher Frenze, the committee’s executive director.

Though she grew up watching her mother at the sewing machine, learning the craft with each loving stitch of the family’s clothes, Brown never considered making it a career until two years ago, when she entered Second Life. Within days, she studied up on the basic software skills and began designing virtual women’s apparel from her home in Indiana. “When I design,” she said, “I think about how the cloth falls and the sheen silk has compared to satin.” She said she now spends 70 hours a week on her trade. Starting with four original outfits, she now offers 1,200 designs and has also moved into men’s fashion.

Horror films don’t need redeeming social value to succeed; the number-one box office draw last week was the horribly awful remake “Friday the 13th.” But horror and social value contend for equal honors in “Must Read After My Death,” a frightening — and eerily edifying — documentary that Morgan Dews created from a family trove of photos, Dictaphone letters, audiotapes, voluminous transcripts and home movies. The movies — festive moments, mostly, captured on silent 8 mm — had been familiar to him since childhood. Only after his grandmother, Allis, died in 2001, at the age of 89, did the rest of the material come to light, though no beam could ever dispel the emotional darkness of Allis’s family.