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From: zubbie@ihlpa.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: fashion in 1985
Message-ID: <223@ihlpa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-May-85 13:06:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  8 13:06:50 1985
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> OK, everybody.  Out of those cubicles!  Eyes away from those CRTs!
> It's 1985.  In EVERY women's shoe store the shelves are PACKED with
> FLAT (as in NO heel) shoes.  You can't get a 1-1/2" pump if you beg!!
> Where did all the clogs go?  Low-heeled casual dressy shoes (for dress
> slacks, skirts) are in short supply.  The Killer Heels are still
> available.  For those who try to avoid pain by avoiding the Killer Heels,
> there is always the reliable pointy toe.  Seems to me that shoes should
> be shaped the way feet are shaped.  Does that sound too outrageous?
> 
> Very high heels, pointy shoes, no shock absorber (soles, insoles) must
> all be hard on our bodies.
> 
> Is there anything we can DO?? (Besides gripe in a newsgroup isolated from
> Madison Avenue.)  Just not buying the orthopedic nightmares is too passive.
> Who do we write to?  (Turn those hours spent at your keyboard into 
> something constructive!)  Send those shoe importers an imprint of your
> foot (no, not on their trousers!)  Encourage Bass and Dexter to make
> "dressy" shoes with an eye toward comfort.  Other American shoe manufacturers?
> Does anyone have addresses?
> 
> 					Patricia Collins
> 
> -- 
> 
> 					{ucbvax|duke|hao|allegra}!hplabs!pc

The American Shoe Company (Freeman Shoe Co.) Has a plant and
I believe , its head quarters in Beloit Wisconsin 53511
I am not sure of the address but I would bet a letter to the comapany in
Beloit would get to the right place.

Jeanette Zobjeck
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