Shoes that are worth saving are saved to the last one; those past saving are ripped apart and the uppers are cut into shoe strings, while the soles furnish ground-up leather for compositions.
Turned" shoes have no inner sole, but uppers and outer sole are sewed together wrong side out and then turned.
The uppers of the shoe are now stitched up, and after a careful inspection, they are sent on to the "lasting-room.
The inner sole is tacked to the last, and the uppersare put in place and held there by a tack at the heel.
The patterns for the uppers are now brought into play--and, by the way, it is no small matter to prepare the hundreds of patterns needed for a new line of shoes in all the different widths and sizes.
While the uppers are being stitched, the soles and inner soles and counters have been made ready and brought to the lasting-room.
As stiff and hard as if made of wood, it was only after a prolonged pounding of the uppers with my fists that I was able to get my feet into them at all.
These and other machines complete the soles and heels, which are finally sent to the making or bottoming room, where the completed shoe uppers await them.
The sheets of rubber from which the uppers and soles are cut are at this stage of the work plastic and very sticky.
The uppers are cut by hand from the engraved sheets, while metal patterns are used on the plain stock.
During the warm season they may wear for uppers prunella, or other cloth.
If the original number of men were retained in the cutting department, and if each of them were furnished with the new appliance, it would mean that twelve times as manyuppers would be cut as were cut before the change was made.
If it were possible to cut the uppers of a dozen shoes by the quick stroke of a single die, the machine that carried this armature would do the work of perhaps twelve knives handled by that number of skillful workmen.
Tell that Jens he's to put aside Manna's uppers and begin on the pilot's boots this moment--they were promised for last Monday.
He went slowly down the stairs and asked in the greengrocer's cellar below whether a woman who sewed uppers did not live on the second floor to the left.
She sewed uppers and had a couple of apprentices to help her, and she was really doing pretty well.
The uppers are stitched on to the soles with a No.
The uppers you can cut from a paper pattern copied from the shape shown in Fig.
Men who take chrome uppers for granted talk of chrome sole as a "leather substitute" with an implication that it is of inferior value.
This leather is much the most durable type for a shooting boot, or where waterproof uppers are desirable.
The manufacture of waterproof chrome uppers illustrates a combination of chrome and fat tannages.
The dressing of chrome leathers for uppers is different in important particulars.
Under the head of upper leather are included the thin, soft and pliable leathers, which find their principal, but by no means exclusive, application in making the uppers of boots and shoes, which may be taken as a type of a class of leathers.
I'd taken off my trotter-cases, and that rat, he chewed all the edge of the uppers into embroidery.
He had met his immediate senior officers, largely dilettante Uppers with precious little field experience, and was unimpressed.
The Party hierarchy over there are like our Uppers over here.
On election day, most of the Uppers get done up in their oldest clothes and go slumming down in the Lower quarters.
However, there is something to be said for the training available to weUppers in the academies.
The softness and flexibility of the uppers are more easily secured, as also the fit round the ankle, where walking-shoes should be laced.
Even as the feet seemed about to burst the uppers of the boots, so the legs appeared to threaten the trousers with disruption.
But the worst of all were the dreadful hobnailed boots: the leather of the uppers of these was an eighth of an inch thick, and very stiff.
The uppers wore fairly well, but the soles could not stand the constant submerging in mud and water.
By its power even the poor spirited Hard-uppers have become sisters of the incomparable Winnebagos.
Of all people to whom I had expected to pass on the Torch, this group of Arkansas Hard-Uppers would have been the very last to occur to me.
Hubbard made a handsome pair of moccasins, using an old flour sack for the uppers and a pair of skin mittens for the feet.
Our feet at this time were wrapped in pieces of a camp blanket, tied to what remained of the moccasin uppers with pieces of our old trolling line.
In 1809, David Mead Randolph of England patented machinery for riveting soles and heels to the uppers instead of sewing them together.
Uppers are actually planning to subvert your own government?
He was going to have to do something, and do it quickly, or be branded a boorish Middle who had intruded into a domain of the Uppers only to participate in a brawl and have to be expelled by the establishment's servants.
The Uppers take care of their own, and at the same time make every effort to keep us of the lower orders from joining their sacred circle.
Only the Uppers were in position to utilise the full time of individuals.
Every once in a while one of the Uppers I work with gets all excited about it and wants to jump me to Upper, but somehow or other we've never got around to it.
But even though you make it, what will you have on your hands but these problems that the Uppers seem unable to solve?
These elements, the more capable, more competent, more intelligent, already are running each country though they are not necessarily Uppersor Party members.
The sole was to be thick and stiff -- for we had to be prepared to use crampons -- but the uppers as soft as possible.
Personally I was in favour of boots with stiff soles, so long as the uppers could be made soft and sufficiently large to give room for as many stockings as one wished to wear.
In order to avoid leather, which usually becomes stiff and easily cracked in the cold, he was to use a combination of leather and thin canvas for the uppers -- leather nearest the sole, and canvas above it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uppers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
