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...KEDS When was the last time salesmanship seemed touching? Aimed at young women, this TV ad tastefully evokes a nostalgia for girlhood while successfully repositioning Keds as acceptable grownup footwear. As women of all ages frolic in slow motion, a narrator asks, "What size Keds were you wearing when they stopped delivering milk? When your mother was the prettiest woman on earth? ... What size Keds will you be wearing when a woman walks on Mars...
...would be a good idea to wear shoes with slightly slippery soles," Sumner said in an e-mail message sent to the "Harvard Desperados," the name he coined for those who have expressed interest in the dances. "The ideal choice for footwear is, of course, a pair of cowboy boots...
...months of testimony in theO.J. Simpson trialhave established at least one incontravertible fact: the Simpsons did quite a bit of shopping. And they did it at Bloomingdale's. A second representative of the upscale department store was called to the stand today. Continuing the prosecution's line of footwear questioning, former Bloomingdale's shoe salesman Samuel Poser said that although he remembered selling O.J. size 12 shoes on several occasions, he couldn't remember if they were the Italian Bruno Magli shoes that prosecutors say left bloody prints at the crime scene. Earlier in the trial, a Bloomingdale's buyer...
Where do the top footwear tastemakers of the '90s stand vis-e-vis Earth Shoes? Manolo Blahnik, the pre-eminent European shoe designer, is an unabashed Earth Shoe fan: "It was the first shoe, [along] with the Jesus sandals, to make a social statement!" American shoe designer Kenneth Cole is another fan: "What was originally an antifashion statement 25 years ago has today become fashionable. They are a relaxed and comfortable alternative to other fashionable footwear...
...Foot Sportif on Mt. Auburn St. has also lost much of its business to larger chains that sell athletic footwear. City Sports, for example, moved into Holyoke Center last year...