They are the second group to step into the canvas shoes of the bob-haired Chinese amahs of decades past.

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The mother stoops in a bowlegged pose, turns her feet outward, and heaves her huge muscular frame toward the toes of her canvas shoes.

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Competing professionally with an obsolete or even ordinary system is as ill-advised as playing professional basketball in the canvas shoes that were popular in the 1950s and 1960s, or competing in the PGA golf championship with wooden drivers.

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And those canvas shoes?

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Using his shoes as his canvas, he creates imagery through embroidery and beadwork.

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For example, the company works with outside collaborators who use blank Van athletic shoes as a canvas for their creativity.

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