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Footwraps used by the Finnish Army until the 1990s. Footwraps (also referred to as foot cloths, rags, bandages or bindings, or by their Russian name portyanki) are rectangular pieces of cloth that are worn wrapped around the feet to avoid chafing, absorb sweat and improve the foothold.
The binding plate, screwed to the bottom of the boot, is held in place by these clamps. A plate has been inserted in the upper binding for illustration purposes. Spademan was a type of ski binding , one of a number of "plate bindings" that were popular in alpine skiing during the 1970s.
Foot binding (simplified Chinese: 缠足; traditional Chinese: 纏足; pinyin: chánzú), or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls to change their shape and size. Feet altered by foot binding were known as lotus feet and the shoes made for them were known as lotus shoes.
The brand logo of Finnish Rubber Works from 1965−1966. Nokian Footwear (Finnish: Nokian Jalkineet) is a Finnish manufacturer of rubber boots. It was a part of Nokia (which is today known for its mobile phones) from 1967 to 1990, when it split into its own company. It was acquired by the Finnish company Berner in 2005.
A pair of Nava System bindings with the skier in place. The boot is clipped into the binding, which is almost flush with the ski, and the control arm, black, is in place behind the skiers calf. The Nava System was a ski binding and custom ski boot offered for sale in the 1980s. The system used a combination of flexible sole plate to keep the ...
These large, bulbous, waterproof rubber boots can be worn in extremely cold weather, −20 to −60 °F (−29 to −51 °C), with the liner-free interior retaining warmth by sandwiching up to one inch of wool and felt insulation between two vacuum-tight layers of rubber; this vacuum layer insulates the wearer's feet similar to a vacuum flask.
LaCrosse was established in Wisconsin in 1897 as the La Crosse Rubber Mill in the city of La Crosse. [2] The company became the largest employer in that city in 1930. [2] In 1994, the company acquired Portland, Oregon-based Danner Boots in a merger that was expected to create a company with an annual revenue of $100 million. [1]
The Colchester Rubber Company was founded by George Watkinson who was born 1838. Prior to founding Colchester Rubber Company, George Watkinson was a manager at the Candee Rubber Company. [6] The Colchester Rubber Company factory, or Rubber Works, at Colchester were co-managed by George Watkinson and his son Irving Watkinson.