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<text id=90TT1234>
<title>
May 14, 1990: Business Notes:Footwear
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
May 14, 1990 Sakharov Memoirs
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 75
Business Notes
FOOTWEAR
High-Heeled Sneakers
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<body>
<p> High heels weren't designed for walking, so many women wear
sneakers on their way to work. Now companies are making dress
shoes with sneaker technology. The result: walking pumps with
extra cushioning in the soles and heels. Women are running to
buy them at $65 to $100 a pair. U.S. Shoe, which touts its Easy
Spirit pumps with spots of women playing basketball in them,
says sales of the shoes more than doubled last year. Brown
Shoe's Naturalizer division quadrupled sales of its
NaturalSport line when it added TownWalker pumps to its
collection. Says Leslie Smith, a product manager at Rockport,
the trendy Massachusetts shoemaker whose version is called
Walking Pump: "Women are no longer ready to compromise their
comfort."
</p>
</body>
</article>
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