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Light blue peeptoe wedge heels. Wedge boots, wedgies, or lifties are shoes and boots with a sole in the form of a wedge, such that one piece of material, normally rubber, serves as both the sole and the heel. This design dates back to ancient Greece. [1] Greek Actors used to wear these shoes to signify status.
Keds Champion sneaker, for women, 1916. In 1916, U.S. Rubber consolidated 30 different shoe brand names to create one company. Initially, the name "Peds" was chosen for the brand from the Latin word for feet, but it was already trademarked. [1] [2] Keds's original shoe design, the Champion, was the first mass-marketed canvas-top shoe. [3]
In 2007, Payless ShoeSource of Topeka, Kansas acquired Stride Rite. On August 16, 2007, the company changed its name to Collective Brands, Inc.By 2009, it was announced that Stride Rite would operate under the further-revised name of Collective Brands Performance + Lifestyle Group.
The footwear brand Buffalo created the famous platform sneakers worn by members of the group. [18] The United Kingdom (and European) experience of platform shoes was somewhat different from that of the United States. [19] The long, pointed shoes of the early 2000s, giving an elongated look to the foot, have been more popular in the US than in ...
The Wedge, the narrowest house in Britain, located on the island of Great Cumbrae; DOS Wedge, a piece of software for the Commodore 64 computer; TVR Wedges, a series of sports cars; The wedge, a weather phenomenon resulting from cold air damming; Wedge issue or wedge politics, divisive political or social issue
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood.It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local disco while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment in his working class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn.