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Sindhi Khusso, Multani Khussa or simply Khussa (Urdu: کُھسّہ), is a traditional footwear [1] produced in Sindh and Multan in Pakistan. [2] [3] [4] Khussa are made by local artisans mostly using vegetable-tanned leather. Khussa is also hand painted on demand by Funkari Customs.
In the U.S., the annual footwear industry revenue was $48 billion in 2012. In 2015, there were about 29,000 shoe stores in the U.S. and the shoe industry employed about 189,000 people. [47] Due to rising imports, these numbers are also declining. The only way of staying afloat in the shoe market is to establish a presence in niche markets. [48]
The earliest known shoes are sagebrush bark sandals dating from approximately 7000 or 8000 BC, found in the Fort Rock Cave in the US state of Oregon in 1938. [5] The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in the Areni-1 cave complex in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3500 BC.
The shoe takes its name from the city of Peshawar, [1] where it originates. While chappal is the word for flip-flops or sandals in Urdu, locals in Peshawar call the Peshawari Tsaplay (Pashto: څپلی). The shoes are worn by men casually or formally, usually with the shalwar kameez.
Jutti shoes. The Juti or Jutti is a type of footwear common in North India, Pakistan, and neighboring regions.They are traditionally made up of leather and with extensive embroidery, in real gold and silver thread as inspired by royalty in the subcontinent over 400 years ago.
Sun (Italian: Sole), a 1929 silent Italian film; Sole Technology, an American footwear company specializing in skateboarding shoes; Radio Sole, a former independent local radio station based in Galatina, Lecce, Italy; Sole, the flat bottom part of plane that slides along the workpiece; Sole, a part of a tool such as a spokeshave
Shoe designers have described a very large number of shoe styles, including the following: Leather ballet shoes, with feet shown in fifth position. A cantabrian albarca is a rustic wooden shoe in one piece, which has been used particularly by the peasants of Cantabria, northern Spain. [1] [2] A black derby shoe with a Goodyear welt and leather sole
A rocker sole shoe or rocker bottom shoe is a shoe that has a thicker-than-normal sole with a rounded heel. Such shoes ensure the wearer does not have flat footing along the proximal-distal axis of the foot. The shoes are generically known by a variety of names, including round bottom shoes, [1] round/ed sole shoes, [2] and toning shoes, [3 ...