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A dancer wearing a unitard, a shrug and pointe shoes. A unitard is a skintight, one-piece garment with long legs and sometimes long sleeves, usually stopping at the wrists and ankles. [1] It differs from a leotard which does not have long legs. [2] The leotard is also usually considered a more feminine clothing item, while the unitard is not.
Jules Léotard in the garment that bears his name. A leotard (/ ˈ l iː ə t ɑːr d /) is a unisex skin-tight one-piece garment that covers the torso from the crotch to the shoulder. . The garment was made famous by the French acrobatic performer Jules Léotard (1838–187
A soccus (pl. socci) or sýkkhos (Ancient Greek: σύκχος, pl. sýkkhoi), sometimes given in translation as a slipper, was a loosely fitting slip-on shoe [2] in Ancient Greece and Rome with a leather sole and separate leather, bound without the use of hobnails. The word appears to originate from the languages of ancient Anatolia.
The German women’s Olympic team wore full-length unitards at the European championships in 2021 and during the Tokyo Olympics to push back against the sexualization of girls and women in the sport.
Galosh ultimately took on its present meaning from the patten usage, describing an overshoe worn at sea or in inclement weather. In time made from rubber they gained the names rubbers, rubber boots, and gumshoes (from gum rubber, a term also applied to rubber-soled "street" shoes, crepe-soled shoes and boots, and sneakers).
Even if your feet get used to the kind of hobble-inducing pain a too-small shoe can invite, this isn't a good sign -- it just means that your foot has adapted to the discomfort, which means that ...
Vintage boot-scraper in Baden-Baden. A boot-scraper, [1] door scraper, [2] mud scraper, or decrottoir is a device consisting of a metal blade, simple or elaborate, permanently attached to the wall or to the sidewalk at the entrance to a building to allow visitors to scrape snow, mud, leaves, or manure off the soles of their footwear before entering.
From the context of the English language, "seven-league boots" originally arose as a translation from the French bottes de sept lieues, [3] popularised by Charles Perrault's fairy tales. A league (roughly 3 miles (4.8 km)) was considered to represent the distance walked in an hour by an average man.