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Category Archives: Footwear

Hummer Out of Business

Thursday, August 14, 2008

A Milwaukee Hummer dealership opened in 2002 then went out of business. Guess what came in and took its place? Click here to find out.

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The Return Of Superfluous GORE-TEX

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

When I was in high school (God, that’s the second post in a row that I’ve referenced being in high school, sorry) people thought it was cool to wear boots or sneakers with the little GORE-TEX emblem on them. At the time I couldn’t understand why people wanted GORE-TEX footwear when they were not doing [...]

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CROCS DESPERATELY CLINGING TO THE REMNANTS OF A FAD

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Last July, Meghan O’Rourke wrote a great piece about Crocs, the foam-rubber clog shoe, for Slate.com. The piece was aptly entitled: “The Croc Epidemic: How a heinous synthetic shoe conquered the world.” O’Rourke is not a fashion or design writer, but even she knew how unsustainably ugly Crocs were. The gist of her article was [...]

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