She performed her sky walk wearing a very striking pair of gold boots designed by John Fluevog.
Jane and Stuart Weitzman, Greenwich residents who own shoe stores across the country, contribute models of shoes and boots designed by New York City students.
These include medical implants, jewellery, football boots designed for individual feet, lampshades, racing-car parts, solid-state batteries and customised mobile phones.
Among the objects on view are a refugee shelter and boots designed for marching through a minefield, as well as more commonplace objects like baby strollers.
However, among the pumps and penny loafers in the nearby shoe museum, you'll find a pair of well-made Bata boots designed for concentration camp laborers.
On my feet I have a pair of woolen socks, then vapor liner socks and finally thick Sorel boots designed to cope well below temperatures of minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 Fahrenheit).
On the subject of female-specific equipment, there is now a wealth of ski models and, most important, ski boots designed for the different anatomical needs women bring to the sport.
The store also sells clothing and accessories created by others, like Australian thermal boots, designed to be worn without socks, called 'Ug Boots (Aussie for "hug boots"), clothes for infants, books about pregnancy and a variety of accessories, like oil that prevents stretch marks ($34).
Worsley waved piss-pots and diaries before various academics, but it was only when she presented us with Charles I's orthopaedic boots, designed to ensure his legs didn't fail him during important ceremonies, that we glimpsed the all too frail figure that was often required to bear the crown.
This suggests that lighter boots or boots designed for easily donning and doffing would effectively reduce firefighters' metabolic burden.
