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2. Plimsoll (shoe) - Wikipedia

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   Plimsolls with elastic instead of laces. A plimsoll, also spelled plimsole, [1] or pump[2] (also known as a gym shoe[2][1] or a sandshoe[1]), is a light sports shoe with a canvas upper and flat rubber sole. The shoe originated in the United Kingdom, [citation needed] there called a "sand shoe", acquiring the nickname "plimsoll" in the 1870s.

3. Keds - Wikipedia

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   Website. www.keds.com. Keds is an American brand known for its canvas shoes with rubber soles. Founded in 1916 by U.S. Rubber, its original shoe design was the first mass-marketed canvas-top sneaker. The brand was sold to Stride Rite in 1979, which was acquired by Wolverine World Wide in 2012. Since February 2023, Keds has been owned and ...

4. Sneakers - Wikipedia

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   Sneakers. Sneakers (US) or trainers (UK), also known by a wide variety of other names, are shoes primarily designed for sports or other forms of physical exercise but which are also widely used for everyday casual wear. Since their popularization by companies such as Converse, Nike and Spalding in the mid 20th century, they have become attire ...

5. List of shoe styles - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Espadrille - Wikipedia

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   1322. Espadrilles (Spanish: alpargatas or esparteñas; Catalan: espardenyes; Basque: espartinak, French: espadrilles) [1] are casual, rope-soled, flat but sometimes high-heeled shoes. They usually have a canvas or cotton fabric upper and a flexible sole made of esparto rope. The esparto rope sole is the defining characteristic of an espadrille ...

7. Ballet shoe - Wikipedia

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   Ballet shoe. A ballet shoe, or ballet slipper, is a lightweight shoe designed specifically for ballet dancing. It may be made from soft leather, canvas, or satin, and has flexible, thin full or split soles. Traditionally, women wear pink shoes and men wear white or black shoes. Skin-colored slippers—which are unobtrusive and thus give the ...