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...drive around with Dr. Bernice/ She's not a lady doctor at all." Lowery is in top form with his mysterious but earthy images: "Baby, don't you drive around with Dr. Bernice/ That ain't a real Cadillac/ It's a Delta 88, spray-painted black/ With fake leather seats from Juarez...
Then a slender silhouette, her face hidden by wild locks of curly hair and a black leather jacket draped over her flowered sundress, glides in from stage left. Without even acknowledging the audience, she hunches her head over the microphone and starts to sing in sultry Texas twang...
Cons. Connies. Chucks. High-tops. All Stars. By any name, the Converse Chuck Taylor All Star basketball shoe is an American classic -- and still a hot seller. For sheer endurance, the simple canvas and vulcanized-rubber shoe (price: $32) now ranks up there with leather bomber jackets, Levi's and Coca-Cola. Last week Converse celebrated the 75th birthday of the All Star and launched an ad campaign that includes a battery of five-second TV spots...
...Sketches of EminentShoemakers, published in Boston in 1848.Prince reports that Roger Sherman, Connecticutsigner of the Declaration of Independence andConstitution, began life as a shoemakers. Whileserving on an appropriations committee during theRevolutionary War, Sherman uncovered fraud in anarmy shoe contract and proved his case byspecifying the market price of the leather andworkmanship. Prince argues, "This incident willserve to illustrate the advantage which may oftenbe derived from the election of practicalmen to fill the office of legislators." (Hisitalics...
Felix speaks quickly, says everything threedifferent ways to make sure others understand, ahabit he acquired while learning English. "I buythe best materials, the best leather, it costs alittle more and I charge the customer, but theytrust me because I buy only the best, and I know alittle, just a little more about shoes than you,and I treat the customers with respect becausemaybe they come back and treat me with a littlerespect...