Comment on Sandal Soles: Running And Walking Sandals To Go Over Shoes?

brie@venera.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• squashkin@wolfballs.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  yeah I think that could work, just with a beefier sole probably

  the point of the galoshes was to keep the feet clean or dry, idk if they were optimized to last a long time with soles

  The idea is to make the sole easy to attach and detach, and to create maybe a durable shoe so you would only have to keep easily swapping soles

  idk what is needed to make the shoe part durable. I guess they compress and can fall apart over time. Not an expert enough of a cobbler, but sometimes it amazes me to no end how these aren't like solved problems with readily adopted solutions. Or maybe shoes simply die and that's ok too, but I was looking to minimize the amount that needs to be replaced.

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  • brie@venera.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    @squashkin Yes, the similarity was in general "detachable protective layer" concept, not in details.
    As for re-soling (sorry, I don't know English term), it was quite common operation not so long ago, done by cobblers. I suppose its decline in popularity was due to falling cost of machine work in comparison to artisan's one; at some point it was just cheaper to get another pair of mass produced shoes.
    
    It wasn't real re-soling, though; the real sole, as construction element of shoe, was covered with a layer of leather or rubber, and only this layer was replaced; so, the real work was just to adjust the shape and apply a good glue.

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    • squashkin@wolfballs.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      My updated thought is to adapt a project like this to fit over a shoe, and/or to tear the soles off an old shoe and replace with this and make a swappable attachable design: https://www.instructables.com/Tire-Sandals/

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