Word: footwear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clothed through a nudist colony do a freak streak. If the act is performed in Bergdorf's, it is, no doubt, a chic streak, and in any high fashion store, a boutique streak. The solo act is a unique streak; a group performs a clique streak. The chosen footwear suggests the sneaker streaker. The possibilities appear limitless...
...high stiletto heels and the tiptoe look gave way to relatively level, short-heeled pumps, walking shoes and flats. Heels reared up once again with the platform look, which is still riding high. But now the heel has actually dropped below the toes in a new kind of footwear: the odd-looking clodhoppers known to a growing band of sole sisters (and brothers) as Earth Shoes...
...some 40 shops across the country that specialize in Earth Shoes, more and more shoppers-including such celebrities as Mark Spitz, James Coburn and Tony Curtis-are competing for limited supplies of clumpy footwear that defies most principles of shoemaking. Instead of sloping downward to the toe the heel of the Earth Shoe is approximately one-half inch lower than the forward part. The rubber sole, in turn, gradually thickens in the direction of the toe elevating the front of the foot and leaving the wearer balancing on his heels. "It's like walking barefoot on a soft, sandy...
...other owners, 20 of them in the past year. "It's not just a business, it's a life-style," explains Eleanor Jacobs. "Most of our shop owners, as well as customers, are into things like yoga and vegetarian eating." They are also totally into their strange footwear. "When I got married last weekend," confesses Albie Sikirdji, a Bronx student, "I wore my Earth Shoes...
...hides have leaped as much as 110%. At the same time, worldwide demand for leather is escalating as living standards rise. "Peasants in Africa now buy new shoes every two years instead of every four," Newman says. "People in Eastern Europe want bright, colorful leather shoes and jackets." Footwear-industry analysts expect leather to drop from 62% to 50% of the U.S. shoe market over the next two years. The gap will be divided mainly between poromerics and cheaper but nonporous synthetics. Exults Newman: "Everything Du Pont anticipated has finally happened...