Styled

By Tracey Shoes

 Dress shoes tend to be identifiable by their smooth and supple leather finish, leather soles and sleek lines, while casual shoes tend to have sturdy uppers and a wider profile. Some types of dress shoe can be worn by either gender and they mostly cover the lower foot, but not the ankle.

This upper element of the shoe is often without apertures or openings, but may also be made with openings or even itself consist of a series of straps, e.g. an open toe featured in women’s shoes.

Shoes with uppers made high to cover the ankles are also made; a shoe with the upper rising above the ankle is usually considered a boot but certain styles may be referred to as high-topped shoes or high-tops. Normally, a high-topped shoe is fixed by laces or zips, although some styles have elastic to ease slipping the shoe on.

There is a large variety of shoes available for women, in addition to most of the men’s styles being more accepted as unisex. Some broad categories are:

High-heeled footwear may be shoes with heels 2 inches (5 cm) or higher. They are often seen as having more sex appeal than low heels and are as a result commonly worn by women for formal occasions or social outings.

Kitten heels are low high heels from about 1 to 2 inches high, and are set in from the back of the shoe.

Sneaker boot and sneaker pumps are shoes that look like an athletic shoe, but is equipped with a heel, making it a kind of novelty dress shoe.

Wedge Sandals are sandals but have the ankles higher as if wearing a high heels shoe, a kind of hybrid. Mules are shoes or slippers with no fitting around the heel (i.e. they are backless) also known as slip-ons. Sling backs are shoes which are fixed by a strap behind the heel, rather than over the top of the foot. Espadrilles are flat or high-heeled casual fashion sandals in a style which originally came from the Pyrenees. They usually have a cotton or canvas upper and a flexible sole of rope or rubber.

Clogs are a Platform shoe with very thick soles and heels. Moccasins originated by Native Americans, are a soft shoe without a heel and usually made of leather.

Sandals are open shoes of a sole and various straps, leaving much of the foot exposed to air. They are as a result popular for warm-weather wear, because they allow the foot be cooler than an enclosed shoe would. Slip-on shoes are dress or casual shoes without laces; often with tassels, buckles, or coin-holders (penny loafers).

Boat shoes, or “deck shoes” are similar to a loafer, but more casual. Laces are usually simple leather or cotton with no frills. Typically made of leather and featuring a soft white sole to avoid marring or scratching a boat deck. The first boat shoe was invented in 1935 by Paul Sperry.

Boots: Long shoes (covering the ankle) frequently made of leather. Some are designed to be used in times of bad weather, or simply as an alternate style of casual or dress wear. Styles include rubber boots and snow boots, as well as work boots and hiking boots.

And finally who could forget the ever faithful slipper? Worn primarily at home, they can often be seen curled up in front of the TV with a pyjama wearing person.

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What is the Correct Way for Doing up a Corset?

By Chris LeRoy

 Corsets may not be as easy as just sliding into your favorite tank but the results that it does to your figure are worth the extra time you spent getting dressed. To ensure comfort, do not lace your corset up too tight the first few times. You need to allow it time to mold naturally to your body and your body needs time to get used to the idea of wearing one.

It is of course; easiest if someone can assist you in putting your corset on but this rarely an option so you handle the task by yourself. All woman are not Scarlett O’Hara from Gone With the Wind and do not have an assistant to pull the ribbons tight while they hold onto the bed post. You will want to loosen the lacing enough for you to get into it. Once you are into the corset, fasten up the front clasp, starting at the top and working downward. Now comes the tricky part. Reach around to the back and gently pull the loops and tighten the lacing, progressing toward the center from the bottom and the top. This may seem tough the first few times but you will get used to it. Don’t try to look in the mirror to do this; it will only frustrate you that everything is backwards.

There is a method called Tight lacing that someone practice for a waistline rewarding tactic. It is the act in which the wearer typically wears their corset night and day, constantly pulling the waste tighter. Once a reduction of two to four inches occurs, the wearer then graduates down to a smaller size corset. This is repeated until the wearer reaches their goal waist size. This does stir up some controversy of being unhealthy or harmful to your body but most feel if done properly it can be effective and not hurtful.

It is also important to always remember when wearing your corset for the first few times it is absolutely of the utmost importance to give your corset that break in period that it needs. This not only prevents damage to the corset but it also prevents your body from feeling discomfort.

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The science of the golf ball

By ScottX

 Golf balls have surely changed over the years. In the beginning golf balls were round with no dimples. After using the ball for awhile it would get beat up and get dings in it. Turns out the ball would fly farther the more it was dinged up. Golfers, being the intelligent people they are, started using used balls exclusively. Why on earth would you use a ball that would fly twenty five yards less? The dimple is an important part of the golf ball that I will be talking about in this article. So read on.

The paragraph above clearly states why golf balls have dimples. What I haven’t mentioned yet is the reason they actually fly farther. The dimples act as turbulators. What that means is that they induce turbulence in the layer of air next to the ball. In some situations, a turbulent boundary layer reduces drag. Which in turn maximizes the flight of the golf ball. The dimples on a golf ball are simply a formal, symmetrical way of creating the same turbulence in the boundary layer that the used ball have because of the knicks and cuts. If you ever wanted to know how many dimples are on a golf ball, it’s anywhere around 330 to 500. Remember that for later because you may be quizzed at some point.

What golf balls are made out of is even more interesting. Original golf balls were made of wood. Of course this made them easy to make. The problem was it reduced the distance when they were struck. Next up was the idea to make a golf ball out of something other than wood. Golfers eventually figured out that filling a round piece of leather with chicken and goose feathers, would allow a ball to travel much greater distances. The problem was the amount of time that went into making a ball. It wasn’t a very great solution. What came next was pure genius. Someone got the bright idea to mold tree sap into golf balls. These balls were extremely tough and could handle lots of wear. Most balls nowadays are either two piece balls or three piece balls. Two piece balls are for the beginner or amatuer golfer. While more professionals use three piece balls due to the control they have with them.

In closing, the science of golf balls is more in depth than most people realise. There are a lot of different factors that determine the flight of a golf ball. All of these factors are usually taken into account by every golfer who buys his own balls. If your a golfer and your not doing your reseach you need to start. Finding out why golf balls are made the way they are is a step in the right direction.

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