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Date Stock Title
May 12 NKE Estimating The Fair Value Of NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE)
May 12 NKE 3 Stocks That Can Help You Get Richer in 2025 and Beyond
May 11 NKE A'ja Wilson and Nike announce the Las Vegas Aces star is getting a signature shoe
May 10 NKE Unpacking the Latest Options Trading Trends in Nike
May 10 BIRD Allbirds First Quarter 2024 Earnings: EPS Beats Expectations, Revenues Lag
May 9 BIRD Allbirds, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIRD) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
May 9 NKE DICK'S Sporting Goods and Nike Announce Fourth Annual It's Her Shot Tour
May 9 BIRD Allbirds revenue plummets 28% in Q1 as CEO says the brand is ‘executing with urgency’
May 9 BIRD Q1 2024 Allbirds Inc Earnings Call
May 9 NKE How NFL’s Troy Vincent balances the game’s thrill and safety
May 9 BIRD Allbirds Inc (BIRD) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript Highlights: Strategic Adjustments Amidst ...
May 9 BIRD Allbirds (BIRD) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
May 9 BIRD Allbirds, Inc. (BIRD) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
May 8 BIRD Allbirds GAAP EPS of -$0.18 beats by $0.03, revenue of $39.3M misses by $0.3M
May 8 BIRD Allbirds Stock Jumps as New CEO Touts Transformation Plan Progress
May 8 BIRD Allbirds Reports First Quarter 2024 Financial Results
May 8 NKE Should You Investigate NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) At US$93.78?
May 7 BIRD Allbirds Q1 2024 Earnings Preview
May 7 NKE Wall Street Bulls Look Optimistic About Nike (NKE): Should You Buy?
May 7 NKE EXCLUSIVE: Gap Names Diversity Advocate and Former Nike Exec Fabiola Torres Global CMO
Footwear

Footwear refers to garments worn on the feet, which originally serves to purpose of protection against adversities of the environment, usually regarding ground textures and temperature. Footwear in the manner of shoes therefore primarily serves the purpose to ease the locomotion and prevent injuries. Secondly footwear can also be used for fashion and adornment as well as to indicate the status or rank of the person within a social structure.
Socks and other hosiery are typically worn additionally between the feet and other footwear for further comfort and relief.
Cultures have different customs regarding footwear. These include not using any in some situations, usually bearing a symbolic meaning. This can however also be imposed on specific individuals to place them at a practical disadvantage against shod people, if they are excluded from having footwear available or are prohibited from using any. This usually takes place in situations of captivity, such as imprisonment or slavery, where the groups are among other things distinctly divided by whether or whether not footwear is being worn. In these cases the use of footwear categorically indicates the exercise of power as against being devoid of footwear, evidently indicating inferiority.

Footwear has been in use since the earliest human history, archeological finds of complete shoes date back to the copper age (ca. 5.000 BCE). Some ancient civilizations, such as Egypt and Greece however saw no practical need for footwear due to convenient climatic and landscape situations and used shoes primarily as ornaments and insignia of power.
The Romans saw clothing and footwear as unmistakable signs of power and status in society, and most Romans wore footwear, while slaves and peasants remained barefoot. The Middle Ages saw the rise of high-heeled shoes, also associated with power, and the desire to look larger than life, and artwork from that period often depicts bare feet as a symbol of poverty. Depictions of captives such as prisoners or slaves from the same period well into the 18th century show the individuals barefooted almost exclusively, at this contrasting the prevailing partakers of the scene. Officials like prosecutors, judges but also slave owners or passive bystanders were usually portrayed wearing shoes.
In some cultures, people remove their shoes before entering a home. Bare feet are also seen as a sign of humility and respect, and adherents of many religions worship or mourn while barefoot. Some religious communities explicitly require people to remove shoes before they enter holy buildings, such as temples.
In several cultures people remove their shoes as a sign of respect towards someone of higher standing. In a similar context deliberately forcing other people to go barefoot while being shod oneself has been used to clearly showcase and convey one's superiority within a setting of power disparity.
Practitioners of the craft of shoemaking are called shoemakers, cobblers, or cordwainers.

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