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- BUSINESS, Page 75Business NotesFOOTWEARHigh-Heeled Sneakers
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- High heels weren't designed for walking, so many women wear
- sneakers on their way to work. Now companies are making dress
- shoes with sneaker technology. The result: walking pumps with
- extra cushioning in the soles and heels. Women are running to
- buy them at $65 to $100 a pair. U.S. Shoe, which touts its Easy
- Spirit pumps with spots of women playing basketball in them,
- says sales of the shoes more than doubled last year. Brown
- Shoe's Naturalizer division quadrupled sales of its
- NaturalSport line when it added TownWalker pumps to its
- collection. Says Leslie Smith, a product manager at Rockport,
- the trendy Massachusetts shoemaker whose version is called
- Walking Pump: "Women are no longer ready to compromise their
- comfort."
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