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Parent. Caleres (1980–present) Website. famousfootwear .com. Famous Footwear is a nationwide chain of retail stores in the United States dealing in branded footwear, generally at prices discounted from manufacturer's suggested prices. The chain is a division of the St. Louis –based Caleres and had more than 1,125 stores in 2010.
This is a list of notable dedicated footwear designers . Adam Derrick (To Boot New York) Alberta Ferretti. Aldo. Alexander Wang. Alexander White (designer) Alexandre Birman. André Perugia. Badgley Mischka.
Shoe. A variety of shoes displayed at the Nordic Museum, including models from 1700 to the 1960s. A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot. Though the human foot can adapt to varied terrains and climate conditions, it is vulnerable, and shoes provide protection. Form was originally tied to function, but over ...
Shoe designers have described a very large number of shoe styles, including the following: Leather ballet shoes, with feet shown in fifth position. A cantabrian albarca is a rustic wooden shoe in one piece, which has been used particularly by the peasants of Cantabria, northern Spain. [1] [2] A black derby shoe with a Goodyear welt and leather sole
Sneakers. Sneakers ( US) or trainers ( UK ), also known by a wide variety of other names, are shoes primarily designed for sports or other forms of physical exercise but which are also widely used for everyday casual wear . Since their popularization by companies such as Converse, Nike and Spalding in the mid 20th century, they have become ...
Bally (fashion house) Banana Republic. Bata Corporation. Bearpaw (brand) Belle International. Stefano Bemer. Bettanin & Venturi. Birkenstock. Blackstock & Weber.
An Oxford shoe is characterized by shoelace eyelets tabs that are attached under the vamp, [ 1] a feature termed "closed lacing". [ 2] This contrasts with Derbys, or bluchers, which have shoelace eyelets attached to the top of the vamp. [ 3] Originally, Oxfords were plain, formal shoes, made of leather, but they evolved into a range of styles ...
Adidas AG ( German pronunciation: [ˈʔadiˌdas] ⓘ; stylized in all lowercase since 1949) [ 4] is a German athletic apparel and footwear corporation headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany. It is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe, and the second largest in the world, after Nike. [ 5][ 6] It is the holding company for the ...