Footwear donnable without use of hands and heel counter for same

Abstract

A shoe donnable without use of hands and a heel counter of same are provided. The shoe has an upper, the upper defining a foot-receiving shoe opening, an upper rim of the foot-receiving shoe opening being a topline. The heel counter is located at a rear portion of the upper and has a front profile, a rear profile, and a flared top formed form the front profile extending back further than an upper portion of the rear profile. The flared top of the heel counter serves to direct a person’s foot to be inserted into the foot-receiving shoe opening and thence into the shoe. The front profile is convex about a left-right horizontal axis. The upper rim of the heel counter flanges backwards above the topline to form a funnel- or ramp-like structure that directs a person’s foot into the shoe.

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