Women's shoes with lift-off top showcase for interchangeable designer inserts
OwnerMarcella Miriam Katzinventor
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Abstract
Women's shoes with a lift-off top showcase for interchangeable designer inserts, where the showcase is attached to a strip which is disposed directly above and is longitudinally aligned along a center of a sole of said shoe, and where an upper end of said strip is attached at a first attachment point on a strap which encircles an upper portion of a woman's ankle, and a lower end of said strip is attached at a second attachment point at a forefoot retaining band located at a forefoot portion of the shoe.
Claims19
-17. (canceled)
A woman's shoe comprising:
- an interchangeable fashion design insert, wherein said insert is present within a showcase member,
- wherein a strip, which comprises said showcase member when a woman is wearing the shoe, is attached at an upper end to a first attachment point where at least one strap is adapted to encircle an upper portion of a woman's ankle, and said strip is attached at a lower end to a second attachment point at a forefoot retaining band located at a forefoot portion of said shoe,
- wherein said strip extends from said first attachment point to said second attachment point in a manner such that said strip interconnects and is suspended between said first attachment point and said second attachment point, so that said strip comprising said showcase member is disposed directly above and is longitudinally aligned along a center of a sole of said shoe,
- wherein said interchangeable fashion design insert is stabilized and maintained in a given position within said showcase member due to frictional and gravitational forces when said woman walks in said shoe;
- and
- wherein an upper, top portion of said showcase member is attachable to an upward facing surface of said strip,
- wherein said top portion of said showcase member is attached to said upward facing surface of said strip by a plurality of fasteners, where a first mating portion of said fasteners is present on said top portion of said showcase member and a second mating portion of said fasteners is present on said strip,
- and wherein said top portion of said showcase member includes a transparent plastic sheet material through which said interchangeable fashion insert is visible.
A woman's shoe in accordance with claim 1, wherein said interchangeable fashion design insert is flexibly stiffened so that it will not crimp due to a woman's walking in said shoe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.