Download or read book Shoe Obsession written by Valerie Steele and published by Fashion Institute of Technology (YAL). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shoe Obsession examined our cultures ever-growing fascination with extravagant and fashionable shoes. Accessories used to be just that--secondary to clothing fashions. Today, however, shoes have become the main fashion story, replacing the It bag as the most desirable accessory. High-heeled shoes--the fashion shoes of the 21st century--have become so tall that even a 4-inch heel is considered low. Shoe Obsession featured over 150 examples of the most extraordinary shoe styles of the 21st-century, highlighting the new concepts, constructions, materials, and types of embellishment that have positioned shoes at the height of fashion"--Museum at FIT web site

Download or read book Do You Speak Shoe Lover written by Linda Meadow and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating Shoe Lovers everywhere! No matter how bad your day is going, none of it seems to matter if you’re wearing the perfect shoes. Do You Speak Shoe Lover? will not only make Shoe Lovers feel better about loving shoes, but it also reveals the business principles of leading shoe retailer, DSW. It explains how DSW strives everyday to be America’s Favorite Place for Shoes—as well as America’s Favorite Place to Work. Each and every DSW Shoe Lover lives the values—for the benefit of their customers as well as for each other. It also shares stories from DSW’s customers and employees about how the right shoes made the difference at important moments in their lives, along with shoe fashion tips and career and business advice, based on DSW’s core values. Filled with photos—it’s perfect as a gift Explains DSW’s core values: 1) Passion, 2) Accountability, 3) Collaboration and 4) Humility, which run through its headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, into each of its 350+ retail locations, and to its more than 20 million Rewards members and 1.5 million fans on Facebook Coauthor Kelly Cook is Senior Vice President Marketing at DSW and the queen of shoe love Explore the emotional relationship women have with shoes with insights from the retailer that knows shoe buyers best.

Download or read book En Brogue Love Fashion Love Shoes Hate Heels written by Hannah Rochell and published by Saltyard Books. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If there's one fashion book you should be buying this season it's this one.' Times Fashion Do you know the difference between a derby and an Oxford? Tassel loafers or penny loafers? Do you know why brogues have holes in them? From brogues to boots, pumps to penny loafers, slippers to sandals, En Brogue honours forty styles of shoes with beautiful hand drawn illustrations, quirky photographs and fascinating facts about the history of our favourite flats. En Brogue dips a (well-clad) toe into the world of fashion, and will get everyone sharing their love of comfy, chic and stylish flat shoes! This book will make the perfect gift for all your friends. www.enbrogue.com

Download or read book Boot and Shoe Recorder written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book If Not 4 U and Some Shoes written by Laurie Nenson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenager Francie Lanoo is smitten with two things in life: beautiful shoes and heartthrob Berkeley Mills, who she knows is definitely out of her league. After months of ogling him, she finally gains the confidence to befriend him. And when he, out-of-the-blue, asks what her ideal shoe would look like, she embarks on a quest to find it ... just for him. Low and behold, the stars align and Francie unexpectedly begins dating Berkeley. When he encourages her to accept an opportunity to study for a year in Italy, she ignores her gut instinct and agrees to it, reluctantly saying goodbye to both the love of her life and the only world she’s ever known. After growing accustomed to her newfound life, Francie decides to attend college in New York, where she continues to refine the characteristics of her ongoing shoe hunt. And though Berkeley has chosen to attend college on the opposite side of the continent, Francie remains forever hopeful that their relationship will one day resume. But when sudden tragedy strikes, Francie plunges into a tailspin and abandons all pursuits of happiness. As time passes, she begins to realize that her chase for the perfect shoe was about something far more meaningful than footwear. Now only one question remains: is it too late to claim the coveted prize? If Not 4 U and Some Shoes is a quirky coming-of-age tale expressed through the eyes of a shoe fanatic as she attempts to find herself—and true love.

Download or read book Bally A History of Footwear in the Interwar Period written by Anna-Brigitte Schlittler and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Franz Bally founded a shoe factory in Switzerland in 1851. Within decades, the Bally name had achieved worldwide recognition for its high-quality footwear. The history of modern footwear can be traced through the lens of Bally's corporate evolution. This book brings together the results of research on such topics as the economic importance of fashion, Bally's fortunes in the US, the career of shoe design, the sourcing and use of materials, and the rise of strategic product display. The research focuses on the 1930s and 1940s: years of economic crisis and war, characterized by a wide diversity of designs and increasing variety in product range. Shortages also led to experiments with materials and technical innovations. Featuring numerous points of contact with adjacent fields of historical study, this publication marks a contribution to the history of fashion as the history of industrially manufactured products.

Download or read book Sneakers written by Yuniya Kawamura and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first academic study of sneakers and the subculture that surrounds them. Since the 1980s, American sneaker enthusiasts, popularly known as “sneakerheads” or “sneakerholics”, have created a distinctive identity for themselves, while sneaker manufacturers such as Reebok, Puma and Nike have become global fashion brands. How have sneakers come to gain this status and what makes them fashionable? In what ways are sneaker subcultures bound up with gender identity and why are sneakerholics mostly young men? Based on the author's own ethnographic fieldwork in New York, where sneaker subculture is said to have originated, this unique study traces the transformation of sneakers from sportswear to fashion symbol. Sneakers explores the obsessions and idiosyncrasies surrounding the sneaker phenomenon, from competitive subcultures to sneaker painting and artwork. It is a valuable contribution to the growing study of footwear in fashion studies and will appeal to students of fashion theory, gender studies, sociology, and popular culture.

Download or read book Lovin the Alien written by Alexandra MacAaron and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are aliens among us. Really. We're not talking about Yoda or E.T. or even My Favorite Martian. We're talking about the extraterrestrials that live in our very homes. They may appear vaguely humanoid, but they have their own language, culture, rituals, eating habits. They are a distinct and separate race whose ways are not ours. We're talking, of course, about "Tweens." Lovin' the Alien is a humorous look at life with a tween. How does a self-described "middle-aged mom" cope with the ups and downs of parenting an adolescent girl in the digital age? With a little white wine, a lot of technology, and an unfailing sense of humor. Based on the wildly popular blog, "Lovin' the Alien," this book is the perfect gift for parents of tweenagers. Or the perfect treat if you find yourself in that particular ... um ... otherworldly situation.

Download or read book A Shoe Story written by Jane L. Rosen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I LOVED THIS BOOK! ...smart, sensitive and incredibly satisfying." —Elin Hilderbrand "Jane L. Rosen has a forever fan in me."—Emily Henry A young woman has one month and a closetful of shoes to discover the future she thought she'd lost in this captivating new novel from the author of Eliza Starts a Rumor and Nine Women, One Dress. Esme Nash is eager to leave her small town and begin her carefully planned post-grad life: a move to New York City, an apartment with her loving college boyfriend, and a fancy job at an art gallery. But when tragedy strikes, instead of heading to Manhattan, she returns home to care for her ailing father, leaving every bit of her dream behind. Seven trying years later, Esme is offered a dog-sitting job in Greenwich Village by a mysterious stranger, giving her access to all of her long-buried hopes and dreams—as well as to an epic collection of designer shoes. Esme jumps at a second chance to step into the future she's sure was meant to be hers. As she retraces her steps, one pair of borrowed shoes at a time, making new friends and reconnecting with her old love, Esme tries on versions of herself she didn’t know existed. But the hazy August days and warm summer nights pass too quickly, and Esme must decide how much of the life she imagined still fits, and what—and who—is on the road ahead of her.

Download or read book Tread Lightly written by Peter Larson and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why running injuries are so common, examining running form, running shoe design, and training, and includes insights on such topics as the evolution of running, stress-related injuries, and the advantages of barefoot running.

Download or read book After Aquarius Dawned written by Judy Kutulas and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Judy Kutulas complicates the common view that the 1970s were a time of counterrevolution against the radical activities and attitudes of the previous decade. Instead, Kutulas argues that the experiences and attitudes that were radical in the 1960s were becoming part of mainstream culture in the 1970s, as sexual freedom, gender equality, and more complex notions of identity, work, and family were normalized through popular culture--television, movies, music, political causes, and the emergence of new communities. Seemingly mundane things like watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show, listening to Carole King songs, donning Birkenstock sandals, or reading Roots were actually critical in shaping Americans' perceptions of themselves, their families, and their relation to authority. Even as these cultural shifts eventually gave way to a backlash of political and economic conservatism, Kutulas shows that what critics perceive as the narcissism of the 1970s was actually the next logical step in a longer process of assimilating 1960s values like individuality and diversity into everyday life. Exploring such issues as feminism, sexuality, and race, Kutulas demonstrates how popular culture helped many Americans make sense of key transformations in U.S. economics, society, politics, and culture in the late twentieth century.

Download or read book Sensory Environmental Relationships Between Memories of the Past and Imaginings of the Future written by Blaž Bajič and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensory environmental relationships – understood as dynamic, embodied, and emplaced affective sensory perceptions in (and of) the environment – invite us to remember the past, infuse our experiences of the present, and entice us to imagine the future. Ethnographically specific, socially and culturally nuanced approaches to environmental relationships require considerable conceptual and practical flexibility and inventiveness. Reflecting this commitment, 'Sensory Environmental Relationships' aims to offer a new anthropological understanding of how, in our individual and collective lives, senses, places, and temporalities intersect. While anthropologists have been studying the sensory environmental relationships in connection to people’s pasts and presents, futures remain conspicuously absent. By bringing different timeframes into the foreground of the analysis, this volume contributes to filling in the gap in our understanding of the human experience. The volume’s ethnographically based contributions address the questions of how embodied and emplaced practices of sensing, while moving or staying in place in diverse environments, engender, inform, and affect the processes of remembering (and forgetting) the past, experiencing the present, and imagining the future. Drawing on the fields of environmental anthropology, sensory studies, studies of movement and mobility, memory studies, and other related (sub)disciplines, as well as diverse, epistemologically and methodologically experimental approaches, the volume explores the ways in which sensory environmental relationships “touch” upon our pasts, presents, and futures.

Download or read book Play Pickleball written by Sydney Steinaker and published by Rock Point Gift & Stationery. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play Pickleball shares the ins and outs of the game in a well-designed, fun, gifty book for beginner to seasoned players.

Download or read book Perspectives on Everyday Life written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on Everyday Life: A Cross Disciplinary Cultural Analysis makes the argument for studying everyday life through a combination of introductory theoretical approaches and a grouping of applications to specific aspects of American culture. The first part of the book addresses the idea of everyday life as considered by distinguished thinkers who have written books about everyday life, such as Sigmund Freud, Fernand Braudel, Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and others. The second part of the book uses theories dealt with in the first part of the book to explore objects—such as suitcases, alarm clocks, milk, pacifiers, pressure cookers, smart speakers, and super-glue—and their part in the various rituals of everyday life in America, revealing their hidden meanings.

Download or read book Quilting a Life written by Michele Claybrook-Lucas and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book VerbNYC Magazine VerbNYC Magazine Silver Edition Featuring Dawn Richard written by Kerry Love and published by VerbNY Media LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Fat Trel covered our debut magazine we're proud to feature Dawn Richard on our "Silver" Edition. Also featuring articles from a handful of the most talented artist in the industry today. We want to thank you in advance for your continued support. Kanye West of (G.O.O.D Music), Drake of (YMCMB), 50 Cent of (G Unit), Beyonce, Dj Tony Touch, Chinx Drugz of (Coke Boys), Fat Trel (Maybach Music Group), Dee 1, Shystie, Caskey of (Cash Money Billionaires), Sean Brown of (Tha Alumni), 3D Na’Tee, Kanin (Ridazz Squad), Wrathmatics and our MAIN FEATURE from, Dawn Richard! We’re very proud to re-release the first issue entitled VerbNYC Magazine "Silver Edition" with the help of the "Queen Of Hearts" and every other artist who were interviewed, THANK YOU!

Download or read book VerbNYC Magazine written by Kerry Love and published by VerbNY Media LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Fat Trel covers the magazine we are also featuring articles from a handful of the most talented artist in the industry today. We want to thank you in advance for your continued support. Also featuring... Kanye West of (G.O.O.D Music), Drake of (YMCMB), 50 Cent of (G Unit), Beyonce, Dj Tony Touch, Chinx Drugz of (Coke Boys), Dawn Richard of (Dainty Kane/Dirty Money), Dee 1, Shystie, Caskey of (Cash Money Billionaires), Sean Brown of (Tha Alumni), 3D Na’Tee, Kanin (Ridazz Squad), Wrathmatics and our MAIN FEATURE from, FAT TREL! We’re very proud to release the first issue of VerbNYC Magazine! With the help of MMG’s youngest, Fat Trel and every other artist who were interviewed, THANK YOU!