New shoes, some say, can transform your life. It's not so easy to transform the shoes.But a few designers are trying. They're offering shoes that can change — from high heel to low heel, from one size to a bigger size, from one outer skin to another — for better fashion, comfort or fit.
It's only a tiny trend in the $45-billion-a-year U.S. footwear market, but it's notable that shoe engineers are trying to alter an aspect of human apparel unchanged for centuries.
"More technology is being applied to shoes than has ever happened before," says shoe historian Elizabeth Semmelhack, curator of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto.
•Adjustable heels. Camileon Heels developed a new kind of shoe last, or form, that allows the heel to go from 3¼ to 1½ inches. Pull down on the heel, push it forward and tuck it under the arch of the shoe.
2 comments:
I have always been a great believer in salvage so as to speak. I have never discarded a pair of shoes yet that could not be saved for future wear. You will be surprised at what you can do with a little scuff polish,glue, ribbons and bows etc.
Very classy looking shoes
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