Sydney Wragge, creator of sophisticated casuals for women and Roger Vivier, designer of Christian Dior shoes Paris, France, whose squared toes and lowered heels have revolutionized the shoe industry.

Bycast was originally made for the shoe industry and recently was adopted by the furniture industry.

In 2007, the global shoe industry had an overall market of $ 107. 4 billion, in terms of revenue, and is expected to grow to $ 122. 9 billion by the end of 2012.

There are about 29. 000 shoe stores in the U. S. and the shoe industry employs about 189. 000 people.

In honor of the area's former shoe making industry ( that used to be located where the current Ten-Thousand Villages Corporate Offices are currently ) a giant sneaker is lowered at midnight.

Textiles and shoe making, furnitures, mechanics, automotive ( Heuliez and Irisbus ), chemistry ( Rhodia in Melle ), food industry and food packaging are the major industries outside of the capital.

After the war, New Canaan's major industry was shoe making.

The 19th-century shoemaking industry was the work of Charles Emery Cate, who bought land in the city in 1860 for a home, a shoe factory, tannery and sawmill.

In Auburn, shoe manufacturing became the dominant industry by the late 19th century.

However, after World War II the shoe industry began to decline, and between 1957 and 1961 the largest manufacturers closed their factories.

In the past it was home to a profitable Leather industry, to which a few old shoe factories in the town's older sections still testify.

For 200 years, Loon op Zand and Kaatsheuvel were the centre of the leather tanning and shoe manufacturing industry of the region.

The shoe industry rivaled shipbuilding and canning in prominence.

The 1850 United States Census indicates that the largest number of men were employed in the shoe industry, followed closely by carpentry and bricklaying.

Although never a big manufacturing centre, in the 18th century industry centred around hand loom wool weaving, and in the early 19th century the principal industry was spinning and the manufacture of shoe thread.

Hosting this type of industry led to other businesses opening up as well, such as a hotel, a foundry, blacksmiths, shoe shops, a wagon shop, and a vinegar establishment just east of the center of the hamlet.

The initiators of the movement were Alexander Busygin ( automobile industry ), Nikolai Smetanin ( shoe industry ), Yevdokiya and Maria Vinogradov ( textile industry ), I. I. Gudov ( machine tool industry ), V. S. Musinsky ( timber industry ), Pyotr Krivonos ( railroad ), Pasha Angelina ( glorified as the first Soviet woman to operate a tractor ), Konstantin Borin and Maria Demchenko ( agriculture ) and many others.

Wimsey also turns up a few clues-there was a fresh tear in the General's trouser cuff and a scraping of paint on the side of his shoe.

Humiliated and heartbroken, from that day on, she remained alone in Satis House, her decaying mansion — never removing her wedding dress and wearing only one shoe, leaving the wedding cake uneaten on the table and allowing only a few people to see her.

Adidas, the shoe sponsor at the 1960 Summer Olympics, had few shoes left when Bikila went to try out shoes and he ended up with a pair that didn ’ t fit comfortably, so he couldn't use them.

Other information that is normally notated on a mud log include lithology descriptions, directional data ( deviation surveys ), weight on bit, rotary speed, pump pressure, pump rate, viscosity, drill bit info, casing shoe depths, formation tops, mud pump info, to name just a few.

There are three types of footwear that complement the fustanella: 1 ) the kundra, which are black shoes with a metal buckle, 2 ) the sholla, which are sandals with leather thongs tied around a few inches above the ankle, 3 ) the opinga, which is a soft leather shoe, with turned-up points, which, when intended for children, are surmounted with a pompon of black or red wool.

In addition shoe maker Lugz claimed the advert plagiarised an advert they had released a few years earlier which was not without reason.

Within a few years Williams was on the move again, this time to Columbia, Missouri where he established one of the first dry goods stores in the town, also providing services as a boot and shoe maker.

This mall offers a pharmacy, a supermarket, a few clothing stores, two shoe stores, two beauty salons and the only hardware store in the village.

A few cycling shoe suppliers offer selected models wider than the standard " D " width.

A few companies have developed shoe models intended to cater to the indoor cyclist including Nike, Lake, Sidi, Specialized, Exustar and others.

During excavation several hundred objects were found within the ship, ranging from a stone cannon ball to grape seeds and including a damaged hour glass, an expensive shoe, pieces of cork and some Portuguese coins.

Sneaker sales in the United States soared to six hundred million pairs a year in 1957, which led leather shoe makers to claim that " sneakers are bad for children's feet " to which sneaker producers replied " sneakers cure the syndrome of Inhibited Feet ".

To Rebecca Hackley, a half-blooded Miami, one section of land, to be located at the Munsey town, on White river, so that it shall extend on both sides to include three hundred and of the prairie, in the bend of the river, where the bend assumes the shape of a horse shoe.

Maple City had its beginnings in 1866 when William Parks and J. T. Sturtevant built a shoe peg factory on land containing several hundred acres of maple timber, and the community that grew up around it was at first known as " Peg Town ".

Sazonov ’ s idea, The Fit Companion, is a small, unobtrusive sensor that, when clipped-on to a user ’ s clothing or integrated into a shoe, provides feedback about physical activity.

He was born and raised in Weston Favell, then a small village near the English town of Northampton in which Crick ’ s father and uncle ran the family ’ s boot and shoe factory.

It may also occur with an inexperienced or unskilled horseshoer who misdrives a nail, uses a shoe that is too small, or has not fitted the shoe to the shape of the horse's hoof.

* Foam tap – a small foam pad placed under the ball of the foot to push the foot up and back if the shoe is too loose.

: and this exceeds unity by only about r /( 2N-2b ) if N-b is large compared to r. Thus the weight of evidence provided by the sight of a white shoe is positive, but is small if the number of ravens is known to be small compared to the number of non-black objects.

Most Jamaican schools are strict where uniforms are concerned, usually specifying sock color, shoe color, the maximum height of shoe heels, and the allowed earrings ( usually small sleepers or knobs ).

The shoe plate slips over the axle and a small reaction arm from the shoe plate engages with the bicycle frame to prevent the plate from turning.

* Satisfying all parties ( on a new Panama Canal Treaty ) would be about as difficult as pleasing the " princess who had big feet and asked a shoemaker to find her a shoe small on the outside and large inside.

Between 1730 and 1850, Upton had many small shoe shops, called ten – footers.

In 1911 the village had two general stores, a physician, a shoe shop, a livery, a creamery, a stock buyer, a carpenter shop, a flour mill, and a variety of small shops.

Many individuals manufactured shoes in their small, one-room shoe shops.

Three small straps are attached to the front of the shoe, each of which has a knot (" humrata ") at the top to fit a hole made on the other side of the shoe.

Belair claimed that his copyright designs of young women with " large heads, oval eyes, small bodies and large feet ," which he had created for shoe designer house Steve Madden, were " pilfered " when Carter Bryant, during his 2008 court testimony, testified that he had been inspired by Steve Madden shoe ads which he saw in Seventeen magazine.

Boot and shoe making which started as a cottage industry later expanding through small workshops thrived following the opening of tanneries around 1792 which also supplied leather for saddle making and glove.

This cleat consists of a small metal or plastic attachment to the cyclist's shoe.

It used a plastic shoe cleat which slid into grooves in the pedal and locked in place with a small lever located on the back side of the pedal body.

Whereas Look cleats are large and protrude from the sole of the shoe, SPD cleats are small and could be fitted in a recess in the sole, making it possible for walking ( although comfort will vary, as the soles of different cycling shoes vary in their rigidity depending on design ).

* Holgon Flash, a small normal flash for Holgas with a hot shoe.