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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1993
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1991
Jeffrey Silverman, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Diane Wanamaker, Orem, UT (US);
Genesco Inc., Nashville, TN (US);
Abstract
A pair of educational footwear teaches children all of the skills attendant to wearing footwear, particularly footwear having laces. Indicia on the exterior of the footwear which face one another when the footwear is properly aligned for wearing teach children how to accomplish the task of putting the left item of footwear on the left foot and the right item of footwear on the right foot; a bi-colored lace cooperates with color-coded eyelets to teach children how to properly lace the footwear; and a retaining device holds one end of the lace in a looped configuration to make it much easier for a child to tie the lace with a bowknot. All of these features combine in an inconspicuous manner, and therefore may be incorporated in any type of footwear for daily wear.