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Earth Shoes Summary
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When the Earth Shoe was brought to America in 1970, its advertising campaign promised to bring wearers closer to nature. With "negative" heels that sat lower than the front, Earth Shoes claimed to offer wearers a more natural posture,...
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Earth shoe Information
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Earth shoes were an unconventional style of shoe invented in the 1970s in Scandinavia: unlike other shoes, the soles were thick and the heels were thin (Negative Heel Technology), so wearing them one walked heel-downward. The advertisements said that it...


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The Boston Globe
Head Over Heels For Earth Shoes
12/20/2001: 710 words, approx. 2 pages
The footwear died. But demand never did. So says Charlie Liberge, the former Stride Rite executive turned uber-salesman of Earth shoes, the so-ugly-they're-cool brand that disappeared from the hippie landscape in the late- 1970s and reappeared 16 weeks ago in stores and catalogs...
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Footwear News
FAST FORWARD.(earth shoes)(Brief Article)
12/18/2000: 345 words, approx. 1 pages
When the Earth shoe craze ended in the late 1970s, Arthur Fine, who then owned a Kalso Earth Shoe store in State College, Pa., was left with about 300 pairs in his stockroom. He eventually forgot about them. However, late last year, the...
 


 

Earth shoe

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