When the call-outers become the call-outees.

So true. When someone decides they don't like you, they just need one example that requires the article writer to explain themselves, or in my case, sitting down with them in front of management because everything I was trying to explain to the dolt went right over the dolt's head. It's hard to fight Ignorance when it insists on staying ignorant.

Shoes always matter.

"But the fact they appear so soon in the story should have strongly signaled to the reader the direction my piece was taking."
I get it now, the entire piece was a powerful satire in the format of an extended Dewar's profile.
The Bob Guccione-influenced photographs, a giddy intoxication with appearance, a focus on the 'hip' within a context of rank materialism... very clever.

That design in the tile is not a Greek key pattern
https://artlandia.com/wonderland/glossary/GreekKeyPattern.html.

The shoes I see pictured are as described, dear Casey. Perhaps you saw a different photo.