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The Most Expensive Women's Shoes on the Market
Women can never have enough pairs of shoes. When news spread back in the 80′s that Imelda Marcos had 3,000 pairs of shoes, only half of the world...
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Adidas Is Letting You Make Instagram Shoes Because Everything's Terrible
Looking at every meal, snowflake, and sunset through a sepia-toned screen is nice, sure, but you're going to run out of battery at some point. Now, thanks to Adidas, you'll never have to spend another Kelvin-free minute again—just look down.
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Enko Shoes
Running shoes with shock absorption. Good for your knees.
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The Sneakerheads Racing to Save Their Kicks From Decay
Chemical flaws in the materials used to make sneakers cause the shoes to break down over time. Sad news for collectors, who are finding new ways to preserve their beloved kicks.
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Adidas Has Created A Shoe Made Entirely From Ocean Trash
Adidas, in partnership with a nonprofit called Parley for the Oceans, has created a shoe that is made entirely from ocean trash and creates zero waste. The company plans to release a line of shoes made like this later this year.
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The mystery of Dorothy’s missing ruby slippers: Solve it, and you’ll get $1 million
Nearly 10 years ago, someone bashed in the window of the Judy Garland Museum and stole the world's most famous shoes.
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Converse Redesigned Its Iconic Chucks for the First Time in 98 Years
Some would consider it as sacrilegious as when Coke dabbled with its classic formula back in the 80s, but after 98 years Converse has updated its iconic Chuck Taylor All-Stars. On the outside they look nearly identical, but on the inside the Chuck II is actually far more comfy for your feet.
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This Is Why You Absolutely Need To Stop Wearing Shoes In Your House
I always wondered why so many cultures around the world (except for America) left shoes off at or outside the door. Now I know why! You shouldn't wear shoes in your home for several reasons.
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Nike Runner Missed World Record Because His Shoes Disintegrated
Eliud Kipchoge won the Berlin Marathon over the weekend, a remarkable achievement even before considering the fact that he ran much of the race with insoles that were falling out of his Nike shoes. The 30-year-old elite Kenyan runner won the race at a 2:04:00 personal best, defying footwear problems, according to the Berlin Marathon’s official website. The insoles were falling out of his shoes by around the 10-mile mark...
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The Buy-One-Give-One Model Might Make You Feel Good, But It Doesn't Make The World Better
Your socially conscious purchasing decisions don't mitigate your place in a destructive global system.
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Wearing your shoes inside the house? This is the scientific reason why you shouldn't
In some cultures, in which the Japanese one is the most prominent, wearing shoes inside the house is heavily frowned upon. Furthermore, I think wearing shoes inside is also a sign of not feeling completely at home and I prefer walking barefoot, but anyway. Now there is scientific evidence that this practice of removing shoes may even more preferable.
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Nike just unveiled the first real power-lacing sneaker, the HyperAdapt 1.0
It’s finally here. After teaming up with Michael J. Fox to tease us with self-lacing Nike Mags on Back To The Future day in October, Nike has finally announced a mass production shoe that will feature real-life power laces. Meet the HyperAdapt 1.0. Announced today at the Nike Innovation Summit, the HyperAdapt 1.0 will be the first shoe to take advantage of Nike’s adaptive lacing (self-tying) technology, which the...
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Behold, the Space-Age Stiletto
A new company is bringing the engineering savvy of rocket science to the design of women's shoes. But can high heels that are actually comfortable to wear change centuries’ worth of symbolism?
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BootBay.com
BootBay offers a wide variety of western boots and work boots from brands like Ariat, Justin and Wolverine. Free shipping and exchanges.
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Embracing the Vulgar
What is vulgar? The word’s many meanings and many forms are at the heart of “The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined,” an expansive exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London. The show takes shape around eleven categories of vulgarity conceived by writer and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, like “Puritan,” “Impossible Ambition,” and “Showing Off.” Each is explored through clothing, shoes, and texts spanning the eighteenth century through the present. By Hilary Reid.
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Nike’s Controversial New Zoom Vaporfly 4% Shoes Made Me Run Faster
I thought we were talking about doping; Haile Gebrselassie thought we were talking about shoes. It was November 22, 2012, and we were sitting in Gebrselassie’s eighth-floor office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on a warm afternoon, locked in a long discussion about the limits of a runner’s body. Gebrselassie is not only a double-Olympic gold medalist with two marathon world records to his name; he is also a gregarious and provocative aficionado of the sport. So I asked him: What did he consider the best time a clean athlete could run for the marathon?
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The Nazi Sibling Rivalry That Divided a Town and Created Modern Sportswear
By creating Adidas and Puma, the Dassler Brothers divided both their families and their home town, all while changing sports forever. By Brian Blickenstaff.
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These Sustainable Sneakers Are Made Using Algae
The shoes’ manufacturers harvest harmful algal blooms and turn the goo into footwear
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Reebok Unveils Sleek New Space Boots for Future Astronauts
Reebok is really stepping up its footwear game with these awesome new space boots. The athletic-apparel company — which until now has only made shoes for people on Earth — just unveiled a sporty new design for space boots that astronauts will wear during upcoming missions on Boeing's CST-100 Starliner, a spacecraft that will begin ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station by the end of next year.
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Scientists produce footwear in the world from algae.
They’ve developed and produced the first algae-based, renewable flip flops in the world. An estimated 3 billion petroleum-based ff find their way into waterways and the ocean each year, constituting a major plastic pollution source for marine environments. Depending on how you do the chemistry, you can make hard foams or soft foams from algae oil, you can make algae-based, renewable surfboards, flip flops, polyurethane athletic shoes, car seats or even tires for your car.
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