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...recession was constantly threatening to swoop down and savage our livestock. But it?s become sort of the default conventional wisdom that consumers? walletary outlook, while probably past its peak, is on the gentlest of downward slopes - and that business-centric numbers like inventory and production are the other shoe worth watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Street This Week: Back to Business | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

Candidates must also contend with an expanding district, which extends to Easton to the southwest, Braintree to the southeast, Brockton, the old shoe manufacturing town, and the textile mills of Taunton...

Author: By Louisa H. Cooper, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Campaign Heats Up To Replace Moakley in the Ninth | 8/10/2001 | See Source »

...Jonas Cardim was arrested and charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon. The alleged weapon was a shoe...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 7/6/2001 | See Source »

...precise--before Burberry underwent radical image surgery and made a plaid raid on everything from bikinis to bags to little doggy coats and on everyone from Kate Moss to the wife of the British Prime Minister. Now such sensible old-timers as Coach, Dunhill and even the venerable Swiss shoe company Bally are going through a similar process of fust removal, hoping to mimic the Burberry magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Ball: Dusting Off Fashion's Old Bags | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...with whatever pops into my head," Takai explains. Even firms without young designers find the traditional drawing-board-to-mock-up-to-sample-to-store-shelf cycle doesn't cut it in this industry. Tokyo girls, instead of company stylists, helm this multibillion-dollar market. "Once we put the shoe on the shelf, our customers and staff make suggestions and modifications to it," says Mutsumi Tanabe, the thirtysomething managing director of Kobe Leather Cloth Ltd., which owns Esperanza, the most popular shoe store inside 109. "So we remake the shoes, and keep on changing the shoe to meet the desires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kwest For Kawaii | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

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