New Collection from Timberland: Fall-Winter 2009/10
| The footwear brand Timberland, which is famous for collections of male shoes so passionately loved by celebrities, has launched a new collection aimed at women. This elegant collection has been named “Depression Era Chic”. Supposing, the world economical crisis and global recession was taken by designers of Timberlake as a source of inspiration. Below are presented the hottest models of the famous collection. |
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| These booties are both elegant and austere. The designers managed to combine incompatible things and in the result they got leather ankle boots in such fall tints as black and brown. They are pretty steady, featuring massive heel and thin sole. The creative director of Timberland’s female line made an emphasis on the unique comfort and style. |
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| The Timberland brand neither has an age-old history nor is presented at Fashion Weeks in Milan or Paris, but it is doubtlessly in the list of the most beloved and trendy brands. By the way, the visit card of the brand is yellow boots that fashion lovers can see either in British Museum of Design or in one of the most expensive stores in the world – Selfridges. According to researches, hearing about yellow boots 90% of Americans think about famous Timberland’s boots. |
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| Timbos are widely used among hip-hop singers. Every one of them has at least a pair of yellow boots, which has turned into a kind of tradition. |
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| The distinctive feature of the company is that its designers always follow the fashion but they do it carefully. I would say they are reasonable about everything they create. For example, while the whole fashion world goes crazy about unbelievable prints, they manufacture shoes with small and unobtrusive images. The secret of Timberland’s popularity is in quality, style and comfort. The most used colors are neutral: white, sand-colored, khaki, classic denim and blue. So if you try Timberland’s shoes, you will love their unique comfort and style forever. |
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What You Didn’t Know About Sneakers
| Where does the word “sneakers” come from? How is their popularity connected with basketball? These and many other questions we discuss today specially for sneaker lovers.
The word “sneakers” appeared thanks to American footwear company “Keds” based in 1916 by “U.S. Rubber Company”. |
  Keds Deuce Leathermesh
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| In the end of the 19th century “U.S. Rubber Company” created a new model of sports footwear. It featured vulcanized sole with the cloth top from dense canvas fabric. For footwear manufacturing the company used a new vulcanization patent from the company “Goodyear“.
To trust the history, the name “Keds” comes from “pedi”. It is a Spanish word that means “foot”. According to another version, sneakers were carried by poor Americans and were slangily called “peds”. Then in 1908 Markus Mills Converse set up the footwear company “Converse” Markus hoped to become rich thanks to unusual sports footwear. But sneakers didn’t gain popularity and spent in factory warehouses more than 10 years. Nobody hastened to buy a novelty. However, later on good luck came together with basketball for which special footwear was necessary. So in 1917 the first Converse sneakers were presented to public opinion. The sneakers were black and were simply called “All-Stars”. At first, sneakers were not pretty popular, until a famous basketball player Chuk Taylor named “Mr. Basketball” noticed the novelty. Thanks to his game and charisma, basketball became the most popular sports in America and sneakers became part and parcel of it. |
  Converse Red Chuck Taylor All Star
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| Sneakers’ design was changed a bit, and the name was replaced on “Chuck Taylor All-Stars”. On one side of the sneakers there was a signature of the basketball player. Till now the logo of Converse has it. Converse All-Stars turned out to be the most sold footwear for all times. The longing for imitating the idol of basketball did its best. Chuk Taylor’s sneakers are known now all over the world. |
10 Surefire Ways To Shock
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Do you remember that we live in the 21th century and everything is developing extremely fast and in unexpected ways? Well, today these changes have reached the world of fashion. Sometimes such an everyday thing as a footwear can become a means of self-expression, display of creative approach. It becomes more and more fashionable among designers to create unusual and even shocking shoe. BTW, we have already discussed Funny Boots by Guiseppe Zanotti. Designers consider that any thing should have its own unique features and naturally stand out among similar ones. Below is a series of photos of the boldest models. |
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Such boots are obviously made not to be used in everyday life. And it’s not due to its inconvenience (though this is one of the reasons) rather because it is not intended for wearing. Still doubt? Well, here it is. |
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Designers’ fantasy is unlimited; they have got tired of the lack of colors and traditional approaches. Platforms and high heels can surprise nobody today. So in the season to come the shape and ornament experiments are sure to strike. What’s more, heels are bent in the opposite direction and impressively adorned. These shoes absorb the attention of the women of fashion thanks to their unbelievable shapes and styles which are sure to shock. |
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What unusual and sometimes even eccentric and startling shoes! Doubtlessly, not everyone is ready for such experiments. Though who knows, maybe it’s the fashion of the future. |
A Story of the Shoe
People started wearing shoes about 40 thousand years ago – that is the conclusion arrived at by Erik Trinkhaus of the Washington University in St. Louis, who analyzed the foot bones of the ancient people.
This same guy initially suggested a different date for this wonderful creation of men, but the newly discovered data added another 10 thousand years to the date.
The oldest shoes found are dated 10 thousand years B.C., since just like other everyday items of the time they destruct easily. That’s why it is a little difficult to calculate the exact date. So what the scientists did was analyze the bones of ancient people’s feet and legs. The thing is that is has been scientifically proven that wearing anything on feet (even just soles) leads to changes in the structure of phalanges of the third toe.
Discovery of ancient people’s bones is not the thing that happens so often. That is why when two toe phalanges (dating 40 thousand year back) were discovered in China, Erik Trinkhaus and his partner Hong Shang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences rushed to study the discoveries right away.
They then analyzed the skeleton aged 27.5 thousand years that was found in , a skeleton of the Neanderthal man, as well as two other skeletons belonging to the people closer to our age.
Having compared the toe phalanges the scientists arrived at the conclusion that it was 40 thousand years ago when people first invented and started wearing shoes. They published the results of the experiment in the Journal of Archaeological Science, which was met with criticism by some representatives within the academic circles, claiming that the first shoes could have been created by Neanderthal men, who lived under rather conditions.
Trinkhaus does not mind, yet, he does hold his position pretty dear.
