How do you tell if a shoe is a good fit? Take a short walk? Squeeze the front-end with your fingers to make sure there is space for your toes? What about a dangerous, 20-second blast of unshielded ...

EVERETT — Doug Carmean, owner of Shoes-n-Feet in Everett, has two jobs. One is to take care of his customers. The other is to help his community in the best way he knows how — through his business ...

Many of the greatest scientific discoveries are eventually changed and adapted for more practical and widespread use. Since its discovery by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, the use of the X-ray has become ...

In 1927, Charles Brannock, the son of a local shoe company owner in Syracuse, N.Y., invented the Brannock Device. The steel measurement tool with five scales has been the most effective way in the U.S ...

IT IS now common practice in many shoe stores and shoe departments of department stores to supplement usual shoe-fitting methods by the use of fluoroscopes known as x-ray shoe fitters. Because this ...

The operators of Richard's Shoes in Wayne include couples Nick and Donna Olivia, at left, and Robert and Linda Gimon, at right. (Courtesy of Richard's Shoes) WAYNE -- After 44 years of fitting ...

Uyeda's has been a fixture in Moiliili since 1957 mainly at University Square, serving generations of the same families and, since Claire Takashima has been in charge, providing comfortable shoes to ...

There's a good chance you're wearing the wrong size shoe right now, according to recent studies. Nike is trying to fix that. La Trobe University found in 2018 that between 63 and 72 percent of study ...