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A court shoe (British English) or pump (American English) is a shoe with a low-cut front, or vamp, with either a shoe buckle or a black bow as ostensible fastening. Deriving from the 17th- and 18th-century dress shoes with shoe buckles, the vamped pump shape emerged in the late 18th century.
Shoe designers have described a very large number of shoe styles, including the following: Leather ballet shoes, with feet shown in fifth position. A cantabrian albarca is a rustic wooden shoe in one piece, which has been used particularly by the peasants of Cantabria, northern Spain. [1] [2] A black derby shoe with a Goodyear welt and leather sole
Before the invention of clothing sizes in the early 1800s, all clothing was made to fit individuals by either tailors or makers of clothing in their homes. Then garment makers noticed that the range of human body dimensions was relatively small (for their demographic).
Fashionable styles requiring tight corsets, thin shoes or heavy tight hats—although considered beautiful at the time—restricted the wearer's movement and breathing. Alternative forms of daywear were promoted by women's clubs of the time, especially The Dress Reform Association which began in Seneca Falls , NY. in the 1850s, and thus the ...
Initially created to serve as protective clothing during physically demanding work, they have since also become a fashion garment. [4] Many high-fashion brands have released their own spin on overalls. [5] Today, overalls can still be found in some workplaces, while also being worn casually by all kinds of people.
A typical boarding school has several separate residential houses, either within the school grounds or in the surrounding area. A number of senior teaching staff are appointed as housemasters, housemistresses, dorm parents, prefects, or residential advisors, each of whom takes quasi-parental responsibility (in loco parentis) for anywhere from 5 to 50 students resident in their house or ...
Bobby Joe Long was born on October 14, 1953, in Kenova, West Virginia, to Joe and Louetta Long. [3] Long was born with an extra X chromosome, also known as 47,XXY, a specific variant of Klinefelter syndrome.
School Dist. of Philadelphia) that, on April 19, 1977, upheld the Third Circuit Court's verdict by a 4 to 4 vote with one abstention. [247] However, in August 1983, Judge William M. Marutani of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas , ruled that the single-sex admission policy was unconstitutional.