Popular Shoes

Earth shoes first hit the international scene in the early 1970s. At a time when women's shoes featured high heels, toes and arches narrow dangerously thin, the search mismatched shoes attracted the attention of the fashion world and popular media. With their boxes feet wide, "negative" heels and soles rocker, they were often referred to as the ugliest shoes ever created.

Like most fads and trends, although shoes earth had their supporters. Created by a family company in the Scandinavian countries, the Earth shoes were considered a healthy and friendly body traditional 'fashion' shoes. The main feature of the shoe from the heel of the Earth is negative, "created by a thick front sole and heel slim. The bed of the shoe is designed to place the heel lower than the ball of the foot and toes, which, say fans of Earth shoes, encourages better posture and a more natural gait.

Like walking on the beach

Among the innovations that the shoes of the Earth made the original popular innovations that have been completed in other "healthy footwear lines, including many of the most popular shoes today. These innovations include:

Wide toe boxes. Contrary to most popular shoes at the time, which featured narrow, pointed toes for women and men, the shoes of the Earth was round; range toe boxes that made the shoes look like a spatula. For a fashion industry used to make shoes for your feet look small and delicate, the eyes were weird, and a design columnist joked that you might as well wear shoe boxes at your feet discard shoes. The toe box range plays an important role. It allows the toes to spread naturally and grip the ground "as they are supposed to do. Unleashing narrow toes was enough to make the shoe from the Earth a popular style.

negative heel. The second obvious feature of the shoe from the land of origin was the low heel. Not lower than in "less than two inches, but weak as in the bottom of the toe. The foot bed and sole are constructed so that when standing flat, the heel of the foot is positioned lower than the ball of the foot and toes. This encourages a better posture, according to officials of Earth shoes, and also encourages the calf and other leg muscles to work harder.

The reasoning behind the negative heel has to do with natural barefoot approach, which is a movement from heel to toe. The advertising claims that Earth shoes walking shoes from Earth is like walking on the beach, where the body weight pushes the heel into the sand, then roll the foot is "up" to push the next step. You can check the reality of this assertion by looking at the tracks barefoot on the beach.

Rocker funds. Instead of flat soles, the shoe of the Earth consisted of a molded that shook foot forward at every step. Again, the reasoning has to do with the natural gait of the man. Humans are not intended to place the weight of each step on the ball of her foot. Rather the heel absorbs impact step, then the foot "rock" before moving the body weight in the center of it. Finally, the heel is off the ground and toes to push the handle in the next step.

The New Earth shoes

The footwear company Earth stopped making shoes from Earth for many years, instead of contracting with other shoe manufacturers to produce high quality shoes. Recently, the company began to manufacture their shoes homeland again, and he put on the international market. Earth shoes today are available in a wide variety of styles and fashions. Each shoe has the Earth Kalso Heel Technology, which positions the heel to a specific negative slope of 3.7 degrees from the toe.

Why 3.7 degrees? The shoe was originally designed by a Danish yoga master to simulate the angle of the feet during a T.