subject: Welcome To Our Fasion Slippers World [print this page] Straps 5, 31, and 51 are all adapted to be over the instep of the slippers wholesale wearer. In still another embodiment of the present invention as shown in FIG. 6, a strap 71 can be provided for mounting the slippers wholesale about the ankle of the wearer. In this embodiment, the strap 71 comprises a main body 73 having a length substantially equal to the width of the foot of the slippers wholesale wearer. A long narrow strip 77 extends off on an angle from one end of the main body. A short narrow strip 79 extends off from the other end of the main body 73. Strip 79 extends away from strip 77. The entire strap is provided with perforations 81 over substantially its entire area. Suitable means are provided on the strap for closing it on itself. These means can be the buttons 29 and 30, similar to those shown in FIG. 3, or toothed tongue, as shown in FIG. 4 or FIG. 5. The strap 71 can be threaded through slots 9, 11 in the sole 3 of the slippers wholesale and after fastening one to an intermediate portion at 29, the strap is looped about an ankle and crossed over in a figure eight configuration 87 to be attached at 30.
In another embodiment of the invention, the sole of the slippers wholesale may be made in laminate form. As shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the sole 201 can comprise a bottom layer 203 of synthetic thermoplastic material such as, for example, polystyrene or polyurethane, and a top or covering layer 205 of fibrous material, such as, for example, crepe paper. The crepe paper layer 205 serves to provide soft, absorbent contact with the slippers wholesale wearer's foot, and also serves to retain the shape of the sole 201. Polystyrene or polyurethane are relatively rigid or brittle, and may crack or break during use. The crepe paper layer 205 on the other hand is flexible and, attached to the thermoplastic layer, holds it together if it does break. For this reason, a thinner thermoplastic layer 203 can be used in the laminated sole than the thickness of the thermoplastic layer used in a single layer sole.
Strap 251, as shown in FIG. 11, is constructed to minimize the possibility of having the slippers wholesale slip off the foot. To this end, the main body portion 253 of the strap has an elongated, large aperture 255 at each end forming two spaced-apart bands 257, 259 which extend away from body portion 253. The bands 257, 259 at each end merge into projecting tongues 261, 263. One tongue 261 has slanted teeth 265 formed in its sides which teeth 265 cooperate with the sides 267, 269 of a slot 271 in the other tongue 263 to tie the strap together. In tying the slippers wholesale on the wearer's foot as shown in FIG. 12, one side of the strap passes over the head "A" of the first metatarsal bone in the wearer's foot. This head "A" projects or bulges out from the side of the foot. The apertures 255 are made wide enough so that the bands 257, 259 pass over the side of the wearer's foot on either side of head "A" with the head projecting out through the aperture 255 on that side. The bands 257, 259, acting on either side of head "A" reduce the possibility of the slippers wholesale slipping relative to the foot.
