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- <title>
- May 14, 1990: Business Notes:Footwear
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 14, 1990 Sakharov Memoirs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 75
- Business Notes
- FOOTWEAR
- High-Heeled Sneakers
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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