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2. Galoshes - Wikipedia

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   Galoshes are overshoes, and not to be confused with the form of large slip-on rubber boots (known in the United Kingdom as Wellington boots). A protective layer (made variously of leather , rubber, or synthetic ripstop material) that only wraps around a shoe's upper is known as a spat or gaiter .

3. Steel-toe boot - Wikipedia

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   A pair of well-worn steel-toe shoes A pair of ISO 20345:2004 compliant S3 safety boots. A steel-toe boot (also known as a safety boot, steel-capped boot, steel toecaps or safety shoe) is a durable boot or shoe that has a protective reinforcement in the toe which protects the foot from falling objects or compression.

4. Boot - Wikipedia

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   Early boots consisted of separate leggings, soles, and uppers worn together to provide greater ankle protection than shoes or sandals. Around 1000 BC, these components were more permanently joined to form a single unit that covered the feet and lower leg, often up to the knee.

5. Rocker bottom shoe - Wikipedia

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   The shoes are generically known by a variety of names, including round bottom shoes, [1] round/ed sole shoes, [2] and toning shoes, [3] but also by various brand names. [4] Tyrell & Carter identified at least six standard variations of the rocker sole shoe and named them: toe-only rocker , rocker bar , mild rocker , heel-to-toe rocker ...

6. Vibram - Wikipedia

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   Vibram S.p.A. is an Italian company based in Albizzate, Italy, that both manufactures and licenses the production of Vibram-branded rubber outsoles for footwear.The company is named after its founder, Vitale Bramani, [1] who is credited with inventing the first rubber lug soles. [2]

7. Shoe - Wikipedia

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   The earliest known shoes are sagebrush bark sandals dating from approximately 7000 or 8000 BC, found in the Fort Rock Cave in the US state of Oregon in 1938. [5] The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in the Areni-1 cave complex in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3500 BC.