Around 35% of the 190m pairs of shoes it produces worldwide each year are made in Indonesia, providing perhaps 100, 000 jobs.
After a few more rides with clunky running shoes, it became clear that I was inefficiently expending energy.
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Looking at all those clips, you know, the hairdos and the freaky platform shoes, it's like a home-movie nightmare that just won't end, and all of these people sitting here at these tables, they're my family of sorts, you know.
His shoes don't have a look, he tells me, "because the person who buys custom-made shoes does it for himself, not to show off. (Unless you're a rock star.)" But there's a distinctive sensibility to his work: imagination reeled in by disciplined line--even the model with the partial red-suede upper.
Travelers with real infirmities almost always wear safer shoes, even if it means carrying nicer shoes in bags, she says.
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My job is to provide the shoes that make it easy to walk this terrain.
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Toss on a comfortable pair of walking shoes, because it's time to do CES all over again.
Louboutin took the space, then designed and produced shoes to fill it.
Belle International may not need cruel shoes, but it needs something.
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Ironically Li Ning has been one of the leaders in selling cheap basketball shoes in China, but it now is using Shaq to graduate to selling high-end shoes.
The thing about Nike that rarely gets acknowledged is that it doesn't sell shoes, or even athletes, as much as it buys and sells stories, narratives, fairy tales.
Suppose, for example, that an online shoe vendor sells 50% more black shoes on Mondays than it does the rest of the week.
But some are a real stretch: Italian tiremaker Pirelli hopes its Seventh Avenue-sounding name will help it peddle shoes and luggage.
For the simple reason that we saw it with shoes, the textiles.
"If you already have pattern in your coat and you have the same pattern of shoes or bag, it's too much, " she says.
The company's mission is uncomplicated: It gives a free pair of shoes to a child in need every time it sells a pair.
Many are "It" shoes, those darlings heralded in the pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and thus wait-listed even before they ship to stores.
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When it comes to shoes, exclusive French label Weston and British label Church's reign supreme.
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When it comes to shoes, Ms. Acra steers clear of chunky styles, favoring strappy heels or flats.
It has cold shoes to mount external microphones and lighting on top.
It has tennis shoes, socks, deodorant and perfume for hot days when she needs to get out of the office and take a walk.
Most of their parents had factory jobs, too, but that didn't stop them from buying nice clothes and tennis shoes and toys, whatever it took to assimilate.
We run our warehouse 24-7, which is not the most efficient way to run a warehouse but it gets the shoes out to the customers as quickly as possible.
To use it you basically straddle a bicycle seat with robotic legs, tie it to your shoes, and then (gingerly) go about your business, uncomfortably demonstrated in a video after the break.
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Nike has spent several hundred million dollars (according to analyst John Shanley of Susquehanna Financial Group) rearranging suppliers so it can get shoes to market up to three weeks faster than in the past.
It rolled out lower-priced, casual shoes, for which profit margins are higher and through which it hopes to grab entry-level runners.
' You just try to find the character and see how it fits in your shoes.
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Many have attributed the jump in prices of shoes to the demise of the It bag.
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All you need are appropriate shoes and the determination to do it.
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