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\"Lulu, who likes to dress in a ladybug costume, has outgrown her favorite pair of boots. Her mom saves the day by taking her to the shoe store. Learn your colors with Ladybug Girl as she tries on new shoes and finds the perfect pair: red boots with black polka dots\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Made for walking : a modest history of the fashion boot
Social meets fashion history in the story of the boot from the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition to online shopping and fashion blogs. Weaving together such unlikely elements as glam rock, the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, and the Iran-Contra scandal, the book explores how the modern fashion boot plays with our ideas of gender, straddling the line between practical and stylish, between fashion and fetish.
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Mr. Bounce
The spring in his step has got Mr. Bounce down--can a pair of heavy boots help lift his spirits?
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Frye : the boots that made history : one hundred and fifty years of craftsmanship
\"Jackie O. wore them, as did John Lennon. Icons as diverse as Bruce Springsteen, Julia Roberts, Sarah Jessica Parker, wear them today. They are the timeless Frye boots! In 1863, John A. Frye opened the doors of a small shoe shop in Marlboro, Massachusetts. The shoes he made were to ease the everyday life of factory workers in that small New England town. Over a century later, the Frye Company has become the oldest continuously operating footwear brand in America. The boots Frye made weren't meant to be icons of fashion, yet somewhere along the line, they became just that. Frye: The Boots that Made History is a 150-year anniversary album that celebrates the early history of the brand, its cultural takeover in the early 1970s, and the artisanal methods that make its craftsmanship unique. Frye boots are captured in all the ways they are worn: rocked out and urbanized, accessorized and envied, worked and roughed up, flaunting their inimitable style and all-American cool. This book takes the reader through the style and personality of the distinctive designs and handsome detailing of Frye's most popular products, from its tough, treasured and instantly recognizable Harness Boot to the exclusive line dedicated to the American flag debuting this fall. With the strongest leather -- enough to withstand 20 lbs. of pressure -- and dozens of designs, the quality of Frye has always remained the same, making the brand not just a business but a way of life\"--Amazon.com, viewed October 31, 2013.
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The Impact of Footwear on Occupational Task Performance and Musculoskeletal Injury Risk: A Scoping Review to Inform Tactical Footwear
The aim of this scoping review was to investigate the impact of footwear on worker physical task performance and injury risk. The review was guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews protocol and registered in the Open Science Framework. Key search terms were entered into five academic databases. Following a dedicated screening process and critical appraisal, data from the final articles informing this review were extracted, tabulated, and synthesised. Of 19,614 identified articles, 50 articles informed this review. Representing 16 countries, the most common populations investigated were military and firefighter populations, but a wide range of general occupations (e.g., shipping, mining, hairdressing, and healthcare workers) were represented. Footwear types included work safety boots/shoes (e.g., industrial, gumboots, steel capped, etc.), military and firefighter boots, sports shoes (trainers, tennis, basketball, etc.) and various other types (e.g., sandals, etc.). Occupational footwear was found to impact gait and angular velocities, joint ranges of motion, posture and balance, physiological measures (like aerobic capacity, heart rates, temperatures, etc.), muscle activity, and selected occupational tasks. Occupational footwear associated with injuries included boots, conventional running shoes, shoes with inserts, harder/stiffer outsoles or thin soles, and shoes with low comfort scores—although the findings were mixed. Occupational footwear was also linked to potentially causing injuries directly (e.g., musculoskeletal injuries) as well as leading to mechanisms associated with causing injuries (like tripping and slipping).
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Puss in Boots
Presents a retelling of the story of a clever cat who wins for his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.
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Walking in a controlled ankle motion (CAM) boot: In-boot measurement of joint kinematics and kinetics
Research investigating ankle function during walking in a controlled ankle motion (CAM) boot has either placed markers on the outside of the boot or made major alterations to the structure of the CAM boot to uncover key landmarks. The aim of this study was to quantify joint kinematics and kinetics using “in-boot” skin markers whilst making only minimal structural alterations. Seventeen healthy participants walked at their preferred walking speed in two conditions: (1) in standard athletic trainers (ASICS patriot 8, ASICS Oceania Pty Ltd, USA), and (2) using a hard-cased CAM boot (Rebound® Air Walker, Össur, Iceland) fitted on the right foot. Kinematic measurements revealed that CAM boots restrict sagittal plane ankle range of motion to less than 5°, and to ∼3° in the frontal plane, which is a reduction of 85% and 73% compared to standard footwear, respectively (p < 0.001). This ankle restriction resulted in a reduction of ankle joint total limb work contribution from 38 ± 5% in normal footwear to 13 ± 4% in the CAM boot (p < 0.001). This study suggests that CAM boots do restrict the ankle joint’s ability to effectively perform work during walking, which leads to compensatory mechanisms at the ipsilateral and contralateral hip and knee joints. Our findings align with previous research that employed “on-boot” kinematic measurements, so we conclude that in-boot approaches do not offer any benefit to the researcher and instead, on-boot measurements are suitable.
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