Nike makes various laceless shoes: for kids, for triathletes needing quick changes from cycling to running, and for specialized exercise (it makes a split-toe trail running shoe called the Air Rift).
TOPO ATHLETIC Run Trainer: Ultralight low-rise running shoe with a split-toe "Tabi" design that separates the big toe from the rest of the foot, theoretically allowing it to move independently and work as a key stabilizer, amplifying the foot's natural biomechanics.
He hopes to persuade hosiery manufacturers to make hose with split toes, a la Japanese.
About his youthful fascination with the Sears catalog, Mr. Crews writes in that book: "Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a finger cut off, a toe split, an ear half-chewed away, an eye clouded with blindness from a glancing fence staple.
She had already put on the white split-toe socks she would wear with her kimono and was preparing to put her hair up.
Martin Margiela's split-toe Tabi boot is well known, for instance, but not often exhibited with an example of the Japanese foot armor that is one of its precedents.
The shoes, many of which looked like traditional wood-soled geta with their double platforms and flip-floppy, split-toe straps, were shown with metallic leather socks: geisha as go-go dancer, all in Hello Kitty colors with cartoonish cherry blossom appliqués.
Toe touches are when you do a split in the air with your arms in a T.
