Why the Shoe Pinches

By Georg Hermann von Meyer

The informational book "Why the Shoe Pinches" is the sort of book you need if your feet are always hurting because of the shoes you wear. The book is a guide on how shoes should be worn and what design of shoe you need, along with the common problems resulting from flawed shoe design. Author Georg Hermann von Meyer states, "A covering for the foot has, however, to fulfil this object in a manner that will give rise to no disadvantage, the existence of which would essentially diminish the benefits of protection."

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Sep 15, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547318439

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Georg Hermann von Meyer

Why the Shoe Pinches

EAN 8596547318439

DigiCat, 2022

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Titlepage

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Chapters(not individually listed)

What the Object of a Covering for the Foot is, and what Conditions this has to fulfil.

On the Structure of the Foot.

On the Construction of the Sole of the Shoe in the ordinary way.

How Shoes with Soles constructed in this way press the Foot out of Shape.

How the Shoe gets Trodden on one side.

On the Prevention of Treading on One Side, by changing the Shoe from one Foot to the other.

How an improper form of Sole injures the Foot.

How the Shoemaker, with the best intentions, renders still worse the condition of the disfigured Foot.

On very broad Shoes, and on taking Measure by means of an outline of the Foot.

How a proper Sole may he designed for either Foot.

How Soles are to he constructed for Feet in which the Great Toe has already been pressed obliquely outwards.

Are High Heels of any Use?

The Upper Leather—Boots or Shoes?

Answers to Objections.

WHY THE SHOE PINCHES.

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What the Object of a Covering for the Foot is, and what Conditions this has to fulfil.

We put on shoes for precisely the same reason that we wear clothes on other parts of our bodies, namely, that we may be protected from injurious external influences.

The influences from which we desire to be protected are roughness of the ground on the one hand, and cold and wet on the other.

When the roughness of the ground only is to be provided against, the sandal—consisting of a sole of stiff leather or wood, fastened by thongs or bands so as completely to cover the underpart of the foot—is sufficient.

But if protection from cold and wet be also desired, the sole has generally added to it a covering for the whole foot, and part of the leg. This covering may be made of various stuffs, but usually consists of soft leather. When thus combined with the sole, the upper leather further serves to keep the sole firmly fixed under the foot, and thus does away with the need of bands and thongs. Such ​combinations of upper leather and sole are called boots, shoes, etc.

A shoe, then, has to afford protection against unequal and rough ground,