sandalwear
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sandalwear (uncountable)
- Sandals (as a category of clothing).
- 1953 March 8, The Cincinnati Pictorial Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, page 36:
- Fred Braun studied sandalwear through the ages, learned the craft in Germany and France before setting up his shop in New York.
- 1968 January 17, Fort Lauderdale News, volume 58, number 93, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: Gore Newspapers Company, page 4A:
- Smashing Through Spring with the Liveliest Looks in Sandalwear…Crafted of the Richest Leather and Selling at Sears Low Prices
- 1969 January/February, Packaging Design, volume 10, number 1, page 52:
- A sandaled marble foot in a highly original rendering on the top panel of the Bernardo sandal carton provided a classic, quality image for the product in keeping with the company’s role as a pioneer in the area of sandalwear.
- 1970 March 19, Carol Wersich, “Crinkly patent, buckles lead shoe looks for spring”, in The Evansville Press, 64th year, number 224, Evansville, Ind., pages 10—A:
- Numerous Italian imports feature chunky heels in sandalwear, he notes, adding there still will be flat shoes for casual wear but it’s becoming more and more common to see the shoes with chunky heels worn with pants and shorts outfits.
- 1970 December 28, The Daily Argus, 79th year, number 228, Mount Vernon, N.Y., page 2:
- Only superior sandalwear bears Rinaldi’s insignia—this example of his art and artistry cast in the sybaritic medium of jet silk, 32.00 Bonwit’s Designer Shoes, 700 White Plains Rd., Scarsdale
- 1971 July 6, Paul Critchlow, “And You Can Wiggle Your Toes”, in Omaha World-Herald, 106th year, number 249, Omaha, Neb., page 8:
- Women’s sandalwear, according to McAndrews and Kahnk, is produced in three distinct styles.
- 1975 May 29, Dixon Evening Telegraph, 125th year, number 24, Dixon, Ill., page 11:
- Charge several pairs in Tango, Cocoa Creme and Toffee for summer sandalwear!
- 1977 December 18, Daily News[1], volume 57, number 34, New York, N.Y.:
- And distinctive upper styling adds the final touch to this outstanding sandalwear.
- 1978 March 19, “We Believe In Sandals…”, in Sunday Gazette, 93rd year, number 321, Billings, Mont., page 9-G:
- Sandalwear at its best…and we believe in it!
- 1978 June 9, “Tips on toes will help you to step into this summer on the right foot”, in The Morning Record and Journal, 111th year, number 135, Meriden, Conn., page A-14:
- Underfoot, the genuine leather sole offers extra support to the new delicate sandalwear and superior flexibility to put spring into every step.
- 1985 March 8, Susan M. Kreifel, “Shoe fashions are bustin’ out all over”, in Lincoln Journal, Lincoln, Neb.: Journal-Star Printing Co., page 9:
- There are lots of brights in casual sandalwear.
- 1993, Steve J. Stern, Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga to 1640, 2nd edition, The University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 83:
- 1,000 pair sandalwear, at .1875 pesos each (16 pair = 3 pesos).
- 1994 March 20, Liz Smith, “Dave to name raffle winner”, in Daily Record, volume 7, number 116, page C12:
- Diana, playing the maddest mother of them all, is following in the sandalwear of Dame Judith Anderson and Zoe Caldwell, both of whom won a Tony portraying the Greek woman who poisoned her rival, chopped up an old man and fed him to his family, and murdered her children — all for the love of a man.
- 1996, Sandra Tsing Loh, Depth Takes a Holiday: Essays from Lesser Los Angeles, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 91:
- My entire collection of circa 1991 Payless sandalwear for the poor? Of course.
- 1996 May 24, Independent Coast Observer, volume 28, number 8, Gualala, Calif., page 5:
- For more than 30 years the Sensi family has been producing their renowned line of sandalwear!