Shoes
Power Athletic Shoes Commercial
Our shoes will crush all opposition and restore the Fatherland!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 26, 2023 -
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Category: Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Advertising, Shoes, 1990s
Get Slim Slippers
These were mini slippers that supposedly helped one lose weight. How? Something to do with reflexology and magnets. And also, I assume, the extra effort required to balance in them.
They were sold via the website GetSlimSlippers.com, which no longer exists (but is archived at the Wayback Machine).
Quackwatch.org has an article by someone who tried them out to see if they would actually work:
Related post: Slimming Insoles
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 23, 2023 -
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Category: Shoes, Dieting and Weight Loss
Shoes with Hinged Soles
There must be a good reason why, for millennia now, all shoes have come with unibody-construction soles. But Robert M. Lyden thought differently.Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 17, 2023 -
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Category: Body, Inventions, Patents, Shoes, 1990s
Follies of the Madmen #550
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 19, 2022 -
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Category: Fashion, Shoes, Advertising, Public Indecency, Twentieth Century
Space Boots
Released by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1969:"space boots of adjustable molded air cushions so that the child can experience the floating feeling of walking on the moon."
source: awmok.com
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 09, 2022 -
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Category: Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Toys, Shoes
Concrete Heels
From designer Mel Diosa.Don't wear them while swimming.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 18, 2022 -
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Category: Shoes
Double-Heeled Shoe
Patent No. 7,574,819, granted to Jin Rie of Los Angeles:
But why stop at two heels when you could have seven?
'Cleat Heels' from Jean Paul Gaultier's Spring 1993 collection
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 16, 2021 -
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Category: Patents, Shoes
Nail Heel Boots
Footwear from Maison Margiela. Fall 2008. Looks like they're no longer available for purchase. But if they were, they'd cost you $1490.
via Tapireye
Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 14, 2021 -
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Category: Shoes
Wrinkle Chaser
Unusual job: A wrinkle chaser uses a hot-air jet to 'chase' wrinkles out of leather boots and shoes. This is done using a wrinkle chaser machine.
Tacoma News Tribune - Jan 6, 1957
Posted By: Alex - Sun Aug 15, 2021 -
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Category: Jobs and Occupations, Shoes
Double-Sided Cowboy Boots
From fashion label Hood by Air. Introduced in 2016. Not sure if it's still possible to buy them anywhere.
source: footwearnews.com
source: i-d.vice.com
Posted By: Alex - Mon Aug 09, 2021 -
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Category: Shoes
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