shoes

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shoes

From cow to shoe

1981
Follows a cow hide from the tannery where it is soaked, scraped, stretched, and sometimes dyed to the shoe factory where it is cut and stitched together to make shoes.

Alligator shoes

1982
An alligator with an interest in footwear spends the night locked in a shoe store trying on the merchandise.

Happy birthday, Jamela!

2006
Jamela wants sparkly "princess shoes" to go with her new birthday dress, but Mama makes her buy practical school shoes instead.

The reason I'm not quite finished tying my shoes

1981
Annamaria thinks of many things which prevent her from tying her shoes.

Sam Bennett's new shoes

2006
Sam is excited about getting new shoes, and as he grows into the shoes he becomes old enough to help his father on the farm, hoping to become a farmer himself one day.

Cloaked

2012
Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.

Vans

"off the wall" : stories of sole from Vans originals
2009
Combines photographs and anecdotes from insiders to chronicle the history of the Vans shoe company.

Stylish Shoes for the Crafty Fashionista

2012
Stand out in a crowd with a pair of great shoes. Cover old shoes with a fresh coat of paint or a fashionable fabric. Keep your feet dry while looking good with painted Wellies. Use cool buttons to bedazzle your flip flops. Learn how to turn your old castoffs into hip footwear that you can wear to the mall, the beach, or just around your house!.

Every step a lotus

shoes for bound feet
2001
Explores the practice of footbinding in China, explaining its origins, purpose, and spread before the nineteenth century, and describing the material aspects of footbinding and shoemaking, including information on the tools needed, the procedures, the symbolism in the shoes, and the regional variations in style.

Birdie's big-girl shoes

2009
Five-year-old Birdie loves her mother's shoes, but when she is finally granted permission to wear some for a little while, she discovers that her "barefoot shoes" are best of all.

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