Word: shoes
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...this: When you come to a house with a fence, rattle the gate before opening it. Why? "Big dogs," he says, laughing. These are the things you learn when you have been at the get-out-the-vote game for more than two decades. The son of a shoe salesman, Rosenthal, 51, grew up on Long Island, N.Y., and got his start in politics organizing unions in New Jersey. Few in Democratic politics have shown the kind of results that Rosenthal did as head of the AFL-CIO's political operation from 1996 to 2002. In the 2000 election, union...
...decades ago, the typical comfort-shoe customer was a 50-year-old who wanted a pull-on number with a gummy sole. Today traditional comfort brands like Aerosoles count among their clients college kids drawn in by hip T-strap sandals, go-go boots with 3-in. heels and mock-croc peep-toes adorned with silver buckles...
Meanwhile, new companies are striving to take the comfort-shoe niche a step further by using technologies borrowed from the athletics and aerospace industries. Oh! Shoes, based in Portland, Ore., has been launched in a few test markets this fall, and features a multiple-contour foot bed and a six-part shock-absorption system in the heel. Company founder and CEO Greg Van Gasse says the heel technology took 1 1/2 years to perfect and reduces shock more than 30%. The shoes' aesthetic, however, still needs a little work...
...Sydney, Australia, a 22-year-old industrial designer has invented a pretty and practical high heel--with a twist, literally. The result of Sophie Cox's senior-year dissertation on the physical effects of wearing heels was the Convertible, a shoe with interchangeable heels that twist off: a high one for evening and a kitten heel for walking around during the day. Convertibles aren't on the market yet, but Cox hopes to see the first models within a year...
...competition in fashion-comfort wear has shoe maven and niche pioneer Taryn Rose smiling proudly. A trained orthopedist who relies solely on word of mouth for advertising, Rose sells her collections for several hundred dollars a pair at department stores like Neiman Marcus. "When I leave this earth," she says, "I hope I leave behind the legacy that I stood up and said, 'You don't need to sacrifice for fashion.'" Thousands of women with sore feet stand with...