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Shoe Trivia

In Anglo-Saxon wedding ceremonies shoes were as indispensable as the wedding ring is today. Instead of exchanging rings with her betrothed, the bride customarily passed her shoes to her husband, who then tapped her on the head with a shoe.

Whose Crocs Tuesday

In honor of Manolo and his Whose Shoes Wednesday series, we've decided to start our own version:

Whose Crocs Tuesday

Every Tuesday for the next several weeks, we'll show you a pair of celebrity feet - just the feet - in a pair of crocs. The first person to leave a comment naming the correct celebrity wins. Contest closes Tuesday night.

And this week:

We've discovered a website that catalogues shoe trees from around the world.

The winner of this week's episode of Whose SHoes Tuesday is Mickey D who correctly identified the Crocs-wearing feet in the photo to be those of George W. Bush. See you next Tuesday for another episode of Whose Crocs Tuesday.

In honor of Manolo and his Whose Shoes Wednesday series, we've decided to start our own version:  

Whose Crocs Tuesday

Every Tuesday for the next several weeks, we'll show you a pair of celebrity feet - just the feet - in a pair of crocs. The first person to leave a comment naming the correct celebrity wins. Contest closes Tuesday night.

And this week:

Dr. Sargur Srihari, a computer science professor, is building a search engine populated with thousands of shoe images scraped from internet shoe stores that would let police forensics units submit a photo of a shoe print from a crime scene and quickly learn the gender, size and brand of shoe a killer or thief was likely wearing

Click Here to read more.

Courtesy of X17 Online:

I found this video about Crocs on YouTube:

Maybe it's the Left Coast. Or maybe it's the heat. Anyway, shoe trees seem to have an affinity for the Mohave Desert.

J. L. Hudson has put together this site documenting the phenominon.

A Catalogue of Shoe Trees

We've discovered a website that catalogues shoe trees from around the world.

Whose Crocs Tuesday

The winner of this week's episode of Whose SHoes Tuesday is Mickey D who correctly identified the Crocs-wearing feet in the photo to be those of George W. Bush. See you next Tuesday for another episode of Whose Crocs Tuesday.

Whose Crocs Tuesday

In honor of Manolo and his Whose Shoes Wednesday series, we've decided to start our own version:  

Whose Crocs Tuesday

Every Tuesday for the next several weeks, we'll show you a pair of celebrity feet - just the feet - in a pair of crocs. The first person to leave a comment naming the correct celebrity wins. Contest closes Tuesday night.

And this week:

A Shoe Print Database?

Dr. Sargur Srihari, a computer science professor, is building a search engine populated with thousands of shoe images scraped from internet shoe stores that would let police forensics units submit a photo of a shoe print from a crime scene and quickly learn the gender, size and brand of shoe a killer or thief was likely wearing

Click Here to read more.

Croc-Spotting: Mel Gibson

Courtesy of X17 Online:

Ugly Can Be Cool

I found this video about Crocs on YouTube:

A Mature Shoe Tree

Shoe Trees of the Mohave Desert

Maybe it's the Left Coast. Or maybe it's the heat. Anyway, shoe trees seem to have an affinity for the Mohave Desert.

J. L. Hudson has put together this site documenting the phenominon.