Another knelt before him and polished his shoes and then the soles of his shoes.
Even in their Gucci heyday, the De Soles were known for their low-key, convivial approach.
Workers performed tasks under the mezzanines, including operating machines cleaning the soles of Asics running shoes.
Over lunch in Portland a few weeks ago, I asked Mr. Soles about the early years.
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Despite the cachet of the red soles, Louboutin has not been particularly aggressive in fending off imitators.
Louboutin knows a couple who met, and married, after the man approached the woman about her red soles.
The rash is usually most noticeable on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.
Mr. Soles guffawed. (He does that a lot.) "I didn't think any of us would survive, " he replied.
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The thin soles and old-school design proved a hit, and its once-dowdy gymwear became the height of fashion.
This effect allows geckos to walk on the ceiling, using tiny hairs on the soles of their feet.
Louboutin hit upon the red-soles gambit in 1993, his third year in business.
The sound of feet, of bare soles, flat African feet pat-patting the earth.
Imagine a gym powered by a sea of workout-hamsters, each producing significant energy from the soles of their feet.
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More recently, red soles have brought glamour and sex appeal to the shoe.
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The red soles offer the pleasure of secret knowledge to their wearer, and that of serendipity to their beholder.
The only non-Ethiopian bits of her shoes are the glue and the rubber soles cut from old lorry tyres.
He'd already worn through several pairs of boots -- the steel was so hot at the site that it melted the soles.
When he had finished, he lifted each foot in turn and took stock of the cleanliness of his soles.
He appeared to have been beaten all over including on the soles of his feet, with something like a belt.
Shaw, who prided himself on fastidious preparation, had ordered a pair of custom truck-pulling shoes from England, with high-friction soles.
This classification should be straightforward, said Professor Allinson, because criminals favour shoes that have many distinct features on their soles.
The soles are built using an additive manufacturing (also known as 3-D printing) system invented and patented at the university.
The De Soles had spent many happy family vacations there together starting in 1974, when he proposed to her after a two-month courtship.
Start by focusing on the soles of your feet or as you breath in and out for five minutes, then 10, etc.
Innocent wines, the opulent Sheas, the frankly delicious Pinot Noirs from Mr. Soles (who made first-rate sparkling wines at Argyle as well).
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They'll probably go up, Mr. Soles acknowledged, not just because of the high quality but because of the small crop as well.
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She was wearing a black, zip-up jacket over a blue, long-sleeved, round-necked T shirt, black denims and brown knee-high boots with flat soles.
The Nike Plus, the chip placed in running- shoe soles that communicates wirelessly with an iPod, has a whole cult built around it.
Mr. Browne said she was wearing a gray, blue and white ski jacket and Nike sneakers with gray on top and red soles.
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