Jackie Chiles Secrets You Wish You Knew If You Never Watched Seinfeld

I loved watching Seinfeld, and the Jackie Chiles character was part of my enjoyment. In fact, in retrospect that character is one of my favourite famous fictional people of comedy. If you ever watched the later Seinfeld series 7 to 9, you will have seen, and laughed at this character. He was played by the American actor Phil Morris, in the NBC sitcom.



Read on, to find out more about the secrets to the popularity of Jackie Chiles, and WATCH THE CLASSIC SHORT VIDEOS BELOW, especially if you have not yet seen the Seinfeld series

Find out WHAT YOU MISSED, or enjoy this classic comedy again, by watching the videos below, in which the character appears, and find out about Seinfeld's Jackie Chiles.

I understand that the character was based around the famous US attorney Johnnie Cochran, and naturally he becomes Cosmo Kramer's lawyer, as parody of real-life events.

Jackie Chiles has looks which have many similarities with the famous attorney Johnnie Cochran. Both wear spectacles, and can only be described as “moustachioed”. Furthermore, both are black lawyers, but not only that, their names have the same ring to them. It is also notable that they often use some very high-sounding words! So many attorneys delight in the sound of their own voices just like this character does, and it must help them when in court to command respect. However, it is so funny to hear Morris imitating Cochran's immediately recognizable pronunciation and even the way he delivers his speech in his comedy Seinfeld sketches.

It would be unfair to comment on whether Cochran has ever used the catchphrase that Morris puts to such good effect in his characterization, but he uses the character's " I am outraged!", catchphrase, to great effect.

You could say that the real world persona of Attorney Cochran has in real-life been, every bit as flamboyant as the character that Morris plays, but I could not personally comment!  Maybe, all that Morris has needed to do, to create such a real and amusing character, has been to simply impersonate that great Attorney.



In the series, the Attorney (Chiles), has acted on behalf of Kramer in three different episodes and story lines. In the first ("The Maestro," season 7, episode 113), Kramer is seen entering a movie theatre while secreting a cafe-latte in his hands.  As he attempts to clamber, with it, over the legs of another attendee he burns himself. The story progresses, and with Jackie Chiles in charge, a settlement with the coffee company results in a lifetime of free coffee for the plaintive.  That's free coffee at all of their stores throughout North America and Europe, plus $50,000 in cash. Well, it would have included the cash, but the only problem is that Kramer speaks out ahead of time, and accepts the free coffee, before the coffee company mentions the cash. The usual hand wringing ensues!

Chiles is very much in evidence again, in the next of his episodes. That's when Chiles ("The Caddy," Season 7, Episode 122) takes legal action against the candy-bar heiress sue Ellen Mischke. He sues her for allegedly doing Kramer a personal injury in an accident with a car. You would think that Mischke must have been driving the vehicle, but - oh no, Kramer claims he was distracted by seeing her walking the New York streets, wearing only a bra.  Chiles describes her accident-causing antics as, and I quote: "lewd, lascivious, salacious, and outrageous!". A hilarious denouement is the result, as the case collapses when Kramer insists that she must "try on the bra to prove it is hers".

Of course, it does not fit because, when in court she has to put it on over a leotard.  Naturally to demonstrably show it to be hers the bra's cup must be shown to "fit like a glove and right against a person's skin".  Well, at that point in time most Americans will remember the O.J. Simpson trial, and immediately chuckle, at the obvious reference to that.

Watch the Bra Incident here:


In the third, and final episode, of the original block of series ("The Abstinence," Season 8, Episode 143) Chiles features as his lawyer once more, after a scene of pure comic delight, when Kramer's face ages before our eyes as as he sees his apartment deteriorating into a smoking lounge.  We are then treated to a meeting in which Jackie and Kramer go a long way "over the top" on the damage done by smoking, in front of the Tobacco Company's lawyer.  In fact, Jackie Chiles tells this Attorney that, and I quote again: "By the time this case gets to court, he'll be nothing but a shrunken head".

For a moment everything seems to be going Kramer's way, until that is, the tobacco company's legal representative says that "she'll have an offer to settle out-of-court in the morning".

Jackie makes a drama of it by telling Kramer, "Jackie's cashing in on your wretched disfigurement." So, Kramer, in a huff settles the case in Jackie's absence for nothing more than a "Marlboro man" style billboard which is to be erected in Times Square, showing his (Kramer's) face.  Chiles, then declares this to be: "the most public yet of my many humiliations".

Watch this in the Tobacco Case excerpt below:



Another subsequent, amusing venture into legal hilarity with Chiles occurs through Kramer's experiments with "Da Vinci sleep", and how it exhausts him during sex.  His Italian girlfriend, not unreasonably assumes that he has died, in the truly OTT style for which the series is so well-loved, she gets some friends to throw him into the river. When he revives, quite naturally he accuses her of trying to kill him. In a remarkable twist, it is the woman who calls Chiles, maintaining it is he that is her longstanding lawyer.  In the end, Chiles throws professional duty aside by declaring; "I don't want nothing to do with it!"

In later years of the Seinfeld series, Chiles makes several more appearances, culminating in his presence during the program's finale performance.  It is he, who creates the legal entanglement which results in the characters been convicted of the bizarre charge of "wanton indifference"!

However, the fact that, the character of Chiles had made its mark on the collective consciousness of the American nation, has meant that the character continued to live on through new appearances in a series of television adverts. That fact has, clearly, not been lost on the TV companies ad producers, so I continue to hope that the program makers will wake-up, and make a new spin-off series based on the Jackie Chiles character.

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Christian Louboutin - the Man and those High Heels!

Christian Louboutin is a French couture shoe designer. He developed his first passion for shoes in his early teens, when he was often seen sketching different designs. Unfortunately, he frequently did this during class, ignoring his school teacher’s pleas for him to pay attention!

Later, as he grew up, he was attracted by the wild rebelliousness of punk music. So, it is not surprising that he followed the punk scene, and from that no doubt has stemmed much of the super-styled chic originality of his design style.

He first came to “fame” when he appeared in films. He had a part in the 1979 cult classic, and strangely titled, “Race d'ep and the Homosexual Century”, and he became known outside France from that movie, because it appealed to an English-speaking fan base.

It is hardly necessary to say that he was attracted to glamour, froma  young age, and the Folies Bergères fascinated him. Cabaret has always been the trade mark of that famous establishment, resulting in his first work-experience, in which he started out by helping the entertainers in their dressing rooms, before and after performances.

In the late 1980s, he diverted his career from fashion to end up being a landscape gardener, and in that period he also became a contributor to "Style", however, he must have missed his previous passion for working in the design of footwear products, so at that time he also set up his present firm. The date was 1991.

Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol became friends as he wrked his way into the Paris party scene, of the day, in this period.

Louboutin's artistic training was quite short but it did include drawing and course content in the decorative arts, during his attendance at the Académie d'Art Roederer. Louboutin has created ladies's shoes for Chanel, and Yves St Laurent, as well as Maud Frizon.

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With funds from two backers, he opened a Paris shoe salon in that year, with Princess Caroline of Monaco as his first customer. She matched the shop eventually when a fashion reporter existed, as well as the journalist's subsequent magazine of Princess' comments helped greatly to boost Louboutin's renown. Clients such as Diane von Furstenberg and also Catherine.

Louboutin has topped the High-end Institute's yearly Deluxe Brand Standing Index (LBSI) for 3 years; the brand's offerings were declared one of the most Distinguished Ladies's Shoes in 2007, 2008, as well as 2009.

In Autumn 2009, Christian Louboutin promoted his renowned four different styles, a front lacing mid-thigh size with toned heel, a crotch high, skin tight boot with concealed zip system, a chunky mid upper leg boot (Contente), and also a beefy platform mid-upper leg boot.

he was on the up-and-up and by 2011, Louboutin had became one of the most searched-for footwear brands online.

Along with one high heeled thigh boot featuring a flexible cuff simply over the knee, and also 2 pairs of standard over-the-knee boots in their couture line, another well known name in this niche, Jimmy Choo was also doing very well with his minimal edition. This included a mid-thigh black natural leather boot with a four inch heel, so these two shoe designers have really carved themselves out a great reputation.

We think that Christian Louboutin's Pigalle pumps, have proven really attractive to females. Both the charming craftsmanship, and that combined with also highly fashionable design, have actually brought in a whole lot of folks's interest. In a word, individuals really do like his footwear range.

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In fact they like them so much that Christian Louboutin shoes once bought tend to get worn all the time by their owners. Their owners, say they wear them everywhere! This suggests that once they have bought them, they cannot take them off!

212box is company which has a long association with the Christian Louboutin shoe range. It has been developing high design value boutiques for Christian Louboutin for more than 10 years. Since the start of their collaboration, 212box has actually teamed up with his company to open almost 50 amazing Louboutin boutiques worldwide.

Our verdict is that his shoes can be so high heeled that they can cause their owners' foot injuries. But, of all the high-heeled shoes on the market, it has to be said that the one most worth bearing the pain for would be a Christian Louboutin shoe.

They look well-tailored and also give their wearers intended additional height which accentuates the good looks of their wearers. The owners of these shoes also seldom shrink from wearing them with eye-turning tights, or skinny skirts so that the whole shoe is highly visible. Likewise, the stunning leather quality, is flexible as well as smart and traditional enough for wearing these shoes to a huge range of events. Each fashion season's colours are also featured within the range, meaning that it is always easy to find the right shoe colour to combine beautifully with the latest high-fashion outfits.

Obviously, it is not simply personalities of the likes of Madonna, Victoria Beckham, and SJP that adore the stilettos created by Christian Louboutin, and his fellow shoe designers, such as Manolo Blahanik, Jimmy Choo, Gwen Stefani, and also various other high-fashion branded makers, that make these shoes so sought after. There is one thing above all about all of these, that we all must remember, and it is the high cost. If you have the money to spend, it is wonderful to own such shoes, but you would need to be extremely affluent to afford them.

Attitudes to shoes like this have changed as well. Before the start of this century, fetish type high-thigh boots had been differentiated strongly from fashion-style boots, by being much more extreme in numerous dimensions, specifically the height of the heels, as well as platform elevation.

In the later part of the 2000s, it became quite hard for the un-initiated to tell the difference (apart from the quality) between fashion shoes and fetish versions. This trend has continued to change the boundary between the two as couture developers, specifically Christian Louboutin, ever since he started to experiment with ever-more fantastically dramatic designs, in his shoe range.

Consequently, the distinction in between the two now is a lot more about the materials utilized, rather than anything else. To be more specific, fetish upper leg boots tend to be built of polyurethane (PU), or vinyl (frequently incorrectly described as patent leather), not leather. 

Furthermore, the ordinary fetish styled high heel boots, are typically made in China and also cost very little. For instance, we found that an inexpensive line of affordable fetish thigh boots is offered under the brand "Pleaser".

Watch our video above, for more information about Christian Louboutin.