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It really is a big problem for the shoe manufacturers to suit people's fancies and yet give them some degree of comfort. While the uppers are being stitched, the soles and inner soles and counters have been made ready and brought to the lasting-room. The toe stiffeners and also the counters are now cemented into their places.
He tried every sort of known, and many sorts of unknown stiffeners to accomplish the end paper and pasteboard, and wadding, shavings, and shingles, and planks, all were vainly experienced. Gargantua could not have exhibited a greater invention of expedients than he did; but vainly.
Nearly all the upper leather that shows when a shoe is on is made from the hides of cattle, calves, goats, and sheep; but besides the parts that show there are stiffeners for the box toe and the counters to support the quarters over the heel; there are linings, and many other necessary "findings," forty-four parts in all in an ordinary shoe.
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