Dancing with Big Feet.Lifestyle Editors/Business Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 2004 Spring means dancing, dancing at special celebrations that are major life passages. Women are shopping for their first prom shoes, wedding shoes, mother of the bride shoes and more. Most women can hit the mall and find lots of footwear Footwear consists of garments worn on the feet. It is worn for a variety of reasons, including protection against the environment, hygiene and adornment. Usually, socks and other hosiery are worn between the feet and the footwear, except for sandals and flip flops (thongs). choices. But over a third of all women cannot find their shoe size A shoe size is a numerical indication of the fitting size of a shoe for a person. Several different shoe-size systems are still used today worldwide. In some regions, it is even customary to use different shoe-size systems for different types of shoes (e.g. in the local mall. Fifteen years ago, finding sizes wasn't a problem. Most women could shop at the mall because their feet were smaller. In the last 15 years the percentage of women needing shoes over size 9 had grown from 11% to over 35%. A lot of these women are teenagers heading for their proms and young women serving as bridesmaids or brides. DesignerShoes.com was created just for these women. Specializing in all those larger, hard to find sizes not available in the mall, DesignerShoes.com offers "fun, fashion shoes for women who leave a larger footprint", according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. founder Barbara Thornton. Ms. Thornton and her daughter both wear size 11.5M and couldn't find stylish Stylish is a free Mozilla extension that allows for the manipulation of web pages and XUL application user interfaces through the use of CSS or user styles available localy or from centralized web-site [1], which allows style sharing. shoes in their size. Wide sizes start at 8 and go to 14. Mediums start at 10.5 and go to 15. Narrows start at 9 and go to 13. "We consider our work a public service mission to change the shoe industry Noun 1. shoe industry - an industry that manufactures and sells shoes industry - the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "each industry has its own trade publications" . We refuse to even carry a shoe unless it comes to at least a size 12M. And we have hundreds of styles to choose from", she says. "When women find us, they often dance for joy right in the store." Although no one is sure why there has been such an increase in the size of women's feet, Thornton attributes a large part of it to good health. "Title IX required schools to offer active sports to girls as well as boys", she says. "Girls took advantage of the chance to play soccer, volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. , baseball and more. They used their feet much more than older generations of women. Their feet grew with use. And now those Title IX girls are going to the Prom and getting married. They want and deserve the same young, fun fashionable styles as their smaller footed sisters." Nancy Walls Nancy Ellen Walls (born July 19, 1966, in Cohasset, Massachusetts) is an American actress who has appeared in several comedies. Career Nancy Walls was born to Robert and Carol Walls in July, 1966. manages the DesignerShoes.com store at 125 Newbury St. in Boston's fashionable Back Bay. Shopping is available 24 hours a day at www.DesignerShoes.com. |
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