Trivia of the Week
by JULIA

Thanks to Nicole Rivers from FFANY and Faye Rapoport DesPres from Aetrex who responded to my plea on Twitter yesterday asking for help with the trivia this week.

 

From Nicole:

Where are most shoes manufactured?

What is the difference between between the  d’orsay and an espadrille?

What’s a choncleta?

 

 

From Faye:

Where did the name “sneaker” originate?

 

From Shoes.com via Twitter:

Approximately what percentage of all bones in the body are found in the foot?

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Here we go again

From Nicole:
Where are most shoes manufactured?
A: China!

What is the difference between the d’orsay and an espadrille?
A: D’Orsay is a style of shoes (commonly a pump) with one or both sides cut away, exposing the arch of the foot. Espadrille is a shoe or sandal with a sole covered by braided rope. Technically, one could make a “D’Orsay espadrille” .

What’s a choncleta?
A: a choncleta is a flip flop.

From Faye:
Where did the name “sneaker” originate?
A: The word “sneaker” is often attributed to Henry Nelson McKinney, an advertising agent for N. W. Ayer & Son, who, in 1917, coined the term because the rubber sole made the shoe stealthy. All other shoes, with the exception of moccasins, were unsuitable for sneaking due to the noise they inevitably produced. However, the word was in use at least as early as 1887, as the Boston Journal of Education made reference to “sneakers” as “the name boys give to tennis shoes”

From Shoes.com via Twitter:
Approximately what percentage of all bones in the body are found in the foot?
A: That depends. At birth the human body has about 350 bones, but by the time adulthood some of our bones have fused together to give us a total of 206 bones in our body and out of these we have 26 in each foot – 12.62% in each foot or 52 in both, letting us with a total of 25.24% of bones down there!

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