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![[*]](./images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif) posted on 18-8-05 at 02:31 AM |
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The picture I had was actually a polyurethane clog that really caught on in Japan that has been produced for awhile. I don't know what the exact
original looked like but was imagining that there are only so many ways you can do a clog??. There are many sources that say the clog won the award,
but you would think it would be shown somewhere if it was so celebrated???
The shoes that Famolare is selling now - i think just one or two styles - state that they "are on the anatomic get there sole" (like a certain SUV
is made on a certain pickup truck chassis, it reminds me of). To me they look like regular rounded toe men's dress shoes on a bigger sole.
Oh, and on the licensing date. I know he retired in 1989, so perhaps you are correct and he licensed out in 87. (?)
One last bit of trivia...before Joe Famolare retired he managed to get shoes to show up in the future  on Star Trek. Hmm...maybe this was closer to the original clog?? i dunno.
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| posted on 19-8-05 at 06:25 PM |
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I was very remiss in thanking everyone for listening.
Thank you everyone for your comments, questions, etc. It made the process a lot easier.
Stay tuned everyone for Tuesday when Lizzie presents "Swirl". It is going to be very exciting and you won't want to miss it. Lizzie has done some
extra special field research as well (i won't tell..its a surprise).
So we will see everyone Tuesday!
Chris
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| posted on 22-8-05 at 08:03 PM |
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Better late than never:
I'm researching the nostalgia fad of the 70s, and found this ad in the April 74 Seventeen. Has the clogs!
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| posted on 22-8-05 at 08:47 PM |
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Lizzie, you're my hero!!
Those are cool. Very cartoony looking in a way.
The girl wearing them has the same hairstyle that I did in college!(fastforward 18-20 years after this ad, of course, and then again that style
wasn't too hard to achieve as long as your hair would grow, but the whole platform shoe 70s thing was having a big comeback at that time anyhow).
Do you mind if I use that picture?
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| posted on 22-8-05 at 11:30 PM |
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Of course I don't mind! I just couldn't believe I found it after the discussion of the clogs!
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| posted on 22-8-05 at 11:50 PM |
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Just catching up, this is great - and very interesting for me as it's another name I've never come across!!!  
Liz
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| posted on 24-8-05 at 09:38 PM |
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Lizzie, I wonder if that is Joe's daughter Hillary in the first picture. It may just be a model, but the collection is the "Hillary Famolare"
collection that the shoe is from.
Liz...it's possible they weren't really marketed on your side of the pond as much.
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| posted on 25-8-05 at 01:48 PM |
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Although I can't remember where I've stashed them, those big clogs were given to me by a woman who worked during the mid-70s at a trendy shoe store
in Chicago. She called them her moon shoes. She, and all the other girls who worked at the store were forced to wear them, trying to create a buzz for
them, but she said the sales were slow for them. The ones I have are navy blue, and they are so large that they have gotten scuffed pretty badly,
which doesn't look great on all that shiny blue. They are also really awkward to wear! (Said by one who doesn't complain about the shoes she wears
nearly enough...) Still, kinda ~goofy~ cool. Cartoonish indeed.
The Hi-There is another matter...I actually had some when they came out (I'm sure I must have had to beg and plead with my mother), and I was, and
still am IN LOVE with them! 
Thank you for this fabulous exploration Chris!
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| posted on 24-11-09 at 06:35 AM |
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I am not sure exactly which models he designed, but they all were at least selected by Joe even if he didn't design.
Regards
Samire
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