Encyclopedia of Shoes

by Naira R. Matevosyan

Shoe is more than a footwear. It conveys our character, statement, taste, mood, and perspective. When buying a favorite shoe, many of us remain unaware of the story and rationale behind creation of the footwear we choose. This book presents the foot types, innervation and pressure points, disorders and deformities. It recaps shoe legends, guides to the shoe museums, and extends 75 styles of shoes, boots, espadrilles, albarcas, sports-shoes, dance-shoes, oxfords, brogue, derby, clogs, orthopaedic and medicinal shoes, boat and diving shoes, space and military shoes, chopines, loafers, sandals, sneakers, and moccasins from the fashion giants like Adidas, Allen Edmonds, Calvin Klein, Capezio, Chanel, Christian Dior, Christian Louboutin, Cole Haan, Dolce & Gabbana, Dr. Martens, Jimmy Choo, Ferragamo, Galliano, Givenchy, Gucci, Karen Scott, Mancini, Marc Jacobs, Nike, Oscar de la Renta, Reebok, Rockport, Rutherford, Pacelli, Pierre Cardin, Prada, Puma, Saint Laurent, Sonia Rykiel, Timberland, Tod's, Valentino, Versace, Zanotti, ZARA, and many others. Shoes are sorted in alphabetical order based on the style and not on the brand. Each presentation outlines the purpose, history and materials of making each particular style -- accompanied by 148 color and grouped illustrations of the modern brands. Welcome to our shoeland // Sadly, there is a need for a postscript, as Amazon disallows me to respond to the ad hominem and vulgar attackers. The damaging "review" by so-named N. Mustafaev is another nauseating event. This obvious lunatic lives in a fantasy world where his Pinterest account - full of plagiarized and dirty shoe pictures - is his "online shoe museum" and he "also intends to open a real-life shoe museum in Moscow...". In one sentence of his, I caught five psychiatric symptoms. Firstly, I haven't taken any pictures from his awful Pinterest "collection" and many of you may understand that his taste and mine are incompatible. Secondly, this is a classic troll who wasted no second to jump and harm me after the release of my book, to "promote" his Pinterest page at the cost of my damage.N. Mustafaev is an attention-hungry jerk who has no business with the shoe world. As for the "book price" that ruined Mustafaev's midnight sleep, the lowest price I am allowed to post for this paperback is $46. I do not even receive the remaining $2 in full as some percentage of those too, is used for Amazon's various commissions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1514142759
• ISBN13: 9781514142752
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 8.5"