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Article: THE ROVING EYE.(fashionable bowling shoes)(Brief Article)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 2, 2001
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BOWLING shoes are leaving alleys and taking to the streets of Los Angeles.
Cast your eyes downward and you are bound to see someone wearing leather, bowling-shoe inspired footwear. The lace-ups come in solid colors or two-tones and sometimes feature contrasting stitching.
"The calls have not stopped coming about these shoes," said Meredith Wollins, a spokeswoman for Kenneth Cole Productions Inc., which has been carrying the footwear for months.
Wollins describes them as a "sort of hip version of those goofy bowling shoes."
They first appeared among high-fashion circles in Europe about two years ago and have made their way down to the ...