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Aki Choklat explores the footwear design process, explaining the differences between the anatomy of the foot and the anatomy of a shoe, showing how one constrains the other, before moving onto the research and design development processes and the art of creating a complete collection.

Shoes --- Footwear --- Footwear industry --- Shoemakers --- Clothing trade --- Boots and shoes --- Foot wear --- Clothing and dress --- Boot and shoe workers --- Cobblers --- Cordwainers --- Artisans --- Design. --- Vocational guidance.

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Interweaving biography and material culture with full-color photographs, this fascinating book raises a number of fresh questions about everyday life in early America: What did eighteenth-century British Americans value? How did they present themselves? And how did these fashionable shoes reveal their hopes and dreams? Examining shoes that have been preserved in local, regional, and national collections, Treasures Afoot demonstrates how footwear captures an important moment in American history while revealing a burgeoning American identity.

Shoes --- Shoemakers --- Clothing and dress --- Fashion --- Style in dress --- Apparel --- Clothes --- Clothing --- Clothing and dress, Primitive --- Dress --- Dressing (Clothing) --- Garments --- Beauty, Personal --- Manners and customs --- Undressing --- Boot and shoe workers --- Cobblers --- Cordwainers --- Artisans --- Boots and shoes --- Footwear --- History --- United States --- Great Britain --- Social life and customs --- Colonies --- E-books