![]() ![]() Please check BCSTUDIO storefront for more options. SIZES AND TIPS: The adjustable slippers are available size in 6-11, If half size is required, we suggest ordering the nearest size up to make your feet feel better. The slipper's material will keep your foot stress evenly, slide your feet into our slippers and enjoy a new slipper-wearing experience. PREMIUM MATERIALS: The snug fur and gripped TPU sole are perfect for all-season with indoor/outdoor use. SUIT FOR ALL FEET: Flexible technical shoes designed to offer greater comfort for reducing stress on sore feet, ankles and knees, improve your gait and lessen foot issues like Plantar Fasciitis, as well as other foot uncomfortable. IMPACT PILLOW ARCH SUPPORTL: Ergonomically and anatomically shape with arch support built-in can help relieve common foot pain when walking indoors, provide more comfortable under-foot contact for all-day relief. Featuring impact pillow arch support and gripped sole, designed with relieving sore feet, and the construction ensures youll enjoy extra snuggly comfort. Val Patenaude is executive director of the Maple Ridge Historical Society.COMFORTABLE WOMEN SLIPPERS: Created in classic adjustable strap style with super-soft terry inner and upper. Please contact the museum at 60 for more details.The museum is looking for additions to our footwear collection, specifically dress shoes. The exhibit will also look at footwear accessories, and other types of winter shoes, including early forms of hockey skates to snowshoes.įrom our archives, newspaper advertisements from Osborne Shoes in Haney illustrate that the average price for a women’s shoe in the 1920s was around $2.85 (approximately $35 today).Ī price list from the Eaton’s catalogue from the same decade, shows “Shoes For Wee Feet” from 75 cents, which would have been just under $10 today. The Maple Ridge Museum has a unique collection of footwear, from infant shoes to early 20th women’s ankle- and knee-high leather boots to crocheted slippers, to the more modern styles. Men and women bound their feet with tape to fit them in shoes that were too tight. The Chinese practice of foot binding was loosely copied in western culture. Although there would have been no contact, the basic idea was the same. The Japanese balanced on high-soled wooden shoes, and that shape was similar to what people were wearing in other parts of the world, such as Italy. One of the more fascinating aspects of footwear is the cultural overlap, even from thousands of years ago, when communication between nations would not have been possible, yet our ideas of how to cover the foot were similar. ![]() From basic construction and design, to the materials used, our most recognizable footwear has roots in the past. We think of high-heeled shoes as a fashion statement, but centuries ago they were used for a more practical reason: to keep feet off dirty streets. The sandal – perhaps the oldest foot covering known to us, is still being adapted in various forms. ![]() Shoes of today are actually adaptions from centuries past. The upcoming exhibition at the Maple Ridge Museum, “All About Footwear,” will look at these messages and showcase our growing shoe collection, starting in February and running until summer. The BC stands for Born in California, and like Seychelles, we are dedicated to making quality shoes you actually want to wea. You may choose your footwear based on practical purposes, but that choice also sends symbolic messages. Studies have proven that what you put on your feet can say a great deal about your personality, as well as your economical demographics. Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows Tourism Guide. ![]()
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