Shoe Problems Of The British
According to the data on the sales of footwear in Great Britain, in the last 5 years the foot size of an average British has sufficiently grown. The doctors explain this tendency by the enormous increase in the number of people suffering from obesity.
Five years ago the average size of the shoes, bought by the Brits, was 42, however, today, the usual number is 43. Also specialists have detected a certain increase in the sales of footwear marked with sizes 48 to 50.
The biggest foot size have the men from Birmingham, they are followed by the male inhabitants of Liverpool, than go Belfast, Cardiff and London.
ccording to the specialists, that have run a series of tests and research, the foo size of the women has also grown up, including both the increase in length and width.
Tam Fry, the representative of a British organization Child Growth Foundation, that studies the problems of growth and development in children, names the following reason of the foot-growing tendency: our growth hormone is stimulated by the increasing amount of food, that children eat. In other words, this is one of the consequences of acceleration process.
Do not match the colour of shoes and bags!
The beginning of the summer is a wonderful reason for enlargement of your shoe wardrobe. Summer shoes are on top fashion today, and the holidays are already beginning. The most important thing is to buy something, that will stay trendy for a few seasons. If you take our recommendations into serious consideration, you will make summer come even earlier! Here we go with the list of the tips.
1. Buy a pair of red shoes. Natural leather, high heels and open nose will stay in even during autumn, as the stylists promise. Red is a universal colour for those, who do not like daily routine. It also passes both an elegant cocktail dress and casual jeans.
2. If you love classical black shoes, we strongly recommend you not to buy a full replica of what you already have. Choose not a one-coloured model, but the one with bright and colourful patterns or a colourful heel – this is how modern trends look like. In any case, to purchase a new pair of black shoes will also be quite all rights.
3. Top and lower part of your clothes must not be of one colour, and this means, one should nor choose the shoesm that match your blouse or jacket. Reds hoes will be perfect with pearl-coloured or graphit-grey blouse, and an ultra-fashionable red trench coat – with light brown shoes.
4. Let the colour of the shoes have a duplicate in your clothes. If your jeans coat has some pink spots, this means, pink or lilac sandals will be a perfect match for it.
Shoes stories: interesting facts about footwear.
Hollywood shoesomania.
According to the data of the Italian Association of Footwear Producers, the majority of Hollywood star are nearly infected by shoesomania. No one of the celebrities spares down on shoes! The wardrobe of some of Beverly-Hills dwellers consists of more than a thousand pairs of shoes. It is worth admitting, that shoesomania is a contagious disease that can also infect male actors. Some of them buy about six new pairs of shoes every year, and this is far before the limit! The majority of stars prefer Italian brands.
Shoes country.
Italian borders form a nice boot on the map of the world, so there is no surprise that this country really specializes in shoes and footwear fashion. More than thirty hundred big, medium and small enterprises manufacture footwear in Italy. Though the country with the biggest number of shoe-buyers is France – the French women still hold this record.
An invisible sandal by Ferragamo.
Soon after World War II an Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo, noticing the fishermen working in Florence, decided to create sandals, using nylon threads instead of leather. To create the image of an invisible sandal, Ferragamo made a wooden heel, by this making a foot nearly flying in the air. All leather belts were substituted by nylon threads, that were fixed on both sides of the foot.
Due to the lightening the upper part of these sandals appeared to be absolutely invisible, and at a certain angle it seemed, that a sole is just floating in the air. Despite wide publicity and virtuosity of design the sandals were hardly sold, and the reason for this was their exorbitant price. But in the 1960-s invisible shoes got their period of revival. The heels and fringes of these shoes were decorated with glittering gems.
Shoes and stars: interesting facts.
The most expensive shoes in the world.
Two pairs of shoes are said to have this title, and both are made by the famous jeweler Stewart Weitsmann. The first pair are red pumps covered with 960 rubies. They resemble the red shoes of Ellie (Judie Garlend), the main heroine of the famous Hollywood movie “The Magician of Oz” (1939). The masterpiece of jewelry art cost 1,6 million euro. The shoes were created according to the desire of one Hollywood star that decided to remain incognito. The second pair is weaved from platinum threads and decorated with 464 diamonds. These shoes cost a half cheaper and were noticed on Lora Harring during the last-year Oscar ceremony.
What Madonna wears.
Being one of the most elegant women all over the world, Madonna is a shoes collector. Her wardrobe today contains several hundreds pairs. Some of her shoes are so precious and fragile, that Madonna never puts them on and keeps carefully packed in silk paper. Only sometimes she takes them out of the wardrobe, has a look at the shoes- and then hides them again. However, the singer does not disdain to wear less luxurious shoes, for example, Adidas or Converse sneakers. Usually she buys a new pair long before this design appears in the shops.
Also the star was noticed wearing wooden platform shoes by Michelle Mason, sandals embroided with glass beads by Giuseppe Zanotti, the boots by Barbara Bui, made from the skin of a black calf, Dolce & Gabbana pumps in Kabuki style and, of course, a huge number of shoes by Manolo Blahnik. Madonna is today world wide famous for saying, that shoes by Manolo Blahnik are better than sex.
Pamela’s secret.
Wherever Pamela Anderson goes by plane, she always puts on the shoes, that are a size bigger, than she needs. The star confessed, that during the light her feet swell a lot!
