Joe has to leave the 100-meter dash due to defective running shoes. While investigating the defect, Frank and Joe get in the way of the people making cheap imitations of the real athletic shoes.
Photographs and text examine the wearing and making of clothes across time, places, and cultures, focusing on hats, gloves, and footwear. Includes an activity, a time line of shoes, an interview with a milliner, and a glossary.
Provides an introduction to shoes and their parts, and features instructions for making eight different types of shoes, including Roman sandals, flip-flops, and Native American moccasins.
Follows a cow hide from the tannery where it is soaked, scraped, stretched, and sometimes dyed to the shoe factory where it is cut and stitched together to make shoes.