plimsolls

Athletic shoes have come a long way since the late 18th century, when early rubber soled shoes, called plimsolls, were so crude they had no right or left foot.

FOXNews.com 2011

The cast/crew is excellent: Richard Holt's John is an amiable prefect, Akiya Henry's Titty is an imaginative live wire, Katie Moore's Susan is as tidy as her plimsolls and Stewart Wright's Roger is a treat – a colossus in cardigans.

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Instead, let's run through the fashion highlights, which go something like this: During the 1800s, plimsolls were developed by the Liverpool Rubber company in the form of canvas shoes with a rubber sole and a line resembling the plimsoll line on a boat.

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It's a savvy move for a company that sells what are essentially simple plimsolls.

The Great Sneaker Revival Tina Gaudoin 2011

The Lansdowne did not like bare feet, so they sent him out in his first pair of plimsolls from Woolworth's in Oxford Street.

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Next they flew to Gibraltar to join the royal yacht Britannia for a Mediterranean cruise, with a marine band aboard and nearly 250 officers and crew, the crew as usual in plimsolls so as not disturb the royal rest.

Royal wedding then, and now 2011

Shilts is pictured in slacks and plimsolls "relaxing" in a fringed armchair in front of his massive oak-veneer TV; but even here, cross-legged in the shadow of his own occasional table, he still seems to glower and fret, radiating a dark and unsettling energy of repulsion.

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MBTs are as ugly as sin – a cross between an orthopaedic clump-foot anti-style statement and the ludicrous stack-soled plimsolls to which Baby Spice took an inexplicable liking in the 1990s.

What I bought this week: MBT fitness shoes 2010

As if finding the money to pay for the plethora of plimsolls, shirts and blazers wasn't hard enough, now they have the added dilemma of worrying whether the fingers of a child on the other side of the world have been exploited to make those items boasting oh-so-tempting knock-down prices.

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She dressed simply; jeans, plimsolls and a sweatshirt, and then she left the bedroom for the last time.

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