Nike previously had made one pair of shoes for an 11-year-old disabled child in Oregon.

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"If you're going to buy one pair of shoes, buy it in a nude color it goes with everything, " she says.

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As an example, she cites TOMS, which pledges to donate one pair of shoes to a child in need for each pair sold.

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This way it's so much easier and needs only one pair of business shoes.

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Also the wheels, while heavy duty, were daintily balanced, so if I put a pair of shoes in one side pocket and nothing in the other, it kept flipping onto one side as it rolled through the airport, which gets old fast.

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Matthew Walzer, a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is one of a handful of people in the world walking around in a pair of custom-made Nike shoes.

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The tube can easily hold a toilet kit (it comes with one but I just used my own), a pair of shoes, and some other stuff, like socks, belts or underwear.

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One day, at his offices, he wanted to demonstrate the way that a pair of his shoes can extend the line of the leg.

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The young man, who was tall and thin, with sun-streaked fair hair, and a wind- and sun-burned face, who wore the sun-faded flannel shirt, a pair of peasant's trousers and rope-soled shoes, leaned over, put his arm through one of the leather pack straps and swung the heavy pack up onto his shoulders.

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