INTRODUCING MISS LUANA TO BOOT NATION

Introducing Miss Luana to Boot Nation

Six months ago, I emailed Miss Luana after seeing her picture and I wanted to buy her a pair of knee high boots. Luana is a professional model and has a very successful career to date. To my surprise, she responded and I have bought her two pairs of knee high boots and one pair of ankle boots. Luana is very sweet and eager to interact with her fans. Below are some pictures of the boots I bought for her and be sure to click on the link to her website above.
Look for Miss Luana's Guest Blog for Boot Nation in the coming weeks.

Victoria's Secret DEVON CONVERTIBLE by Colin Stuart

FRANKENREITER by Aldo
Description: High Heel
Material: Leather
Sole: Synthetic
With a glamour attitude and refined detailing, these dress boots couldn't by any hotter. Leather upper with tall, pleated shaft and side tie. Concealed platform.
- Heel Height: 4.5 inches- Platform Height: 1 inches- Shaft Height: 18 inches- Circumference: 14 inches

Thursday, April 26
Best bus ride ever today. Soon after I got on the bus, a woman in her 30's boarded. Hard to miss knee high boots with a mid-lenght skirt. Her boots were $80 Macy's man-made pull-ons with a pointed to that squared off at the tip. She sat down right next to me and proceeded to pull out her phone and write a rather long email message. She was fairly plain looking, but her boots were a sex-factor 9. It was obvious she has a job with a lot of responsibility and she was wearing a phat rock on her left hand. So apparently someone likes her... I wonder if her boots affect him they way the effected me? Dumb question huh? As I was exiting, I leaned forward and softly told her I liked her boots. She gave a somewhat surprised, but appreciative thank you.

Rampage Women’s Teena BootBrown

Faux leather or suede upper in a pull-on knee-high dress boot style with a softly squared toe. Classic boot silhouette with a stretchy upper for comfort and easy on/off. Fabric lining, lightly cushioned insole, dress style midsole, lightly textured rubber outsole. 14 1/2 inch shaft, 13 1/2 inch circumference collar. 2 1/2 inch stacked heel.


Reviewed by Linda Wren  (December 5, 2008)
Boy was I surprised. I was looking for another boot but they did not have it in gray. I reluctantly bought this boot for a specific outfit and found it to be beautiful. What really surprised me is that although it has no zipper, it goes on and off your leg very easily. What also surprised me was the comfort. You really don't feel like you're wearing boots. The biggest suprise, however, was the price--very inexpensive. This boot is a light-weight...perfect for cool weather.

After work I dropped by the dry cleaners and the very cute Mongolian girl told me that she sent her boots back to Mongolia. She had some very nice tan riding boots. She likes boots though, so I'm sure she will be getting more next fall.
On my way home, a cute little Filipino woman got on the bus. I have seen her before. She is only 5"1 so shes hard to miss. She was wearing ankle high rubber rain boots. She told me has several pairs of knee high boots. She was friendly enough, so that was nice.
My California friend and I have been talking a lot. More boot chat today. She has a total of seven pairs of knee high boots and started wearing them after hs. She told me that her arch of her brown boots broke at one point and she had them fixed. Thank god! Talking to a woman who loves wearing knee high boots is heaven. Wow.
Well, tomorrow is Friday. The bars and clubs will be hopping with boots after work and into the evening. And isn't Friday mandatory jeans and boots day? Enjoy.

A sleepy nation dreams of boots.

FireHouse Grill & Brewery is the Official Southbay Restaurant

FireHouse Grill & Brewery is the Offical Southbay Restaurant of Boot Nation!
FireHouse is a sportsbar and ALL of the servers wear knee high boots as part of their uniforms.
Sports and Boots. The best combination of all-time. There are locations in Sunnyvale and East Palo Alto. The Sunnyvale location is located in the historic downtown district. Even when every other bar on the strip is emtpy, FireHouse is packed. The girls are the main attraction. It is an honor to interact with all of these booted ladies. Kat, featured in the above commercial has been my server several times. She is obviously very pretty and wears Great Boots!
The Palo Alto location is located across from IKEA. This location is struggling a bit and needs our support. Ask for Taylor when you go and tell her BootBoy sent you.

ATTENTION: West Coast Boot Correspondants Needed

ATTENTION: WEST COAST BOOT CORRESPONDENTS NEEDED
The Knee-High Booted Ones on the East Coast will soon be putting their boots away in the closet until September. San Francisco and Seattle are year-round boot towns though, so if you live on the West Coast your boot-sense is needed!

Wednesday, April 26
Lunch is Booted-Hour
I did some errands at lunch today and sure enough as I was walking to the train, I saw a woman approaching wearing knee high zip up 2" heel stack heel boots. After completing my errand, I was waiting for my train and was captivated by a college girl wearing canvas like knee high flat-heel boots. She did many cute things with her feet. As her train approached, I said goodbye to the goddess of afar and she was gone. Moments later though, my train arrived and when the doors of the full train opened, a brunette 30-ish woman stepped off to allow other passengers to exit and then she stepped back in. I followed close behind and stood across from her, smiled and said "I like your boots" She returned a wide smile and said in a surprised tone... Thank you! She departed a few stops later and I could see her beautifully rich brown boots had a 3" rounded heel.
My friend in Concord, CA texted me today and reported she wore the same boots yet again today. We chatted about her boots and I was very happy. She said she didn't see all the fuss about fastening the zipper when she put them on this morning, but we need know what all the fuss is about and its heaven. Thanks for sharing.
-Boot Nation

Tuesday, April 24

The Goddess was happy today. First thing, while sitting down to breakfast, I saw a woman in her 40's crossing the street with classic black leather knee high zip up 2.5" heel boots. They are the kind of boots I dream about. I knew it would be a good day.
The rest of the day featured only a few pairs of boots. At lunch I passed a pretty young woman wearing  pant suit and wearing boots under her slacks. She looked very professional. I complimented her on her boots and she returned another hearty Thank you. Clearly she likes her boots too! After work, I passed a woman sitting sitting and having a cigarette while wearing knee high zip up black leather chunk heel boots. Without her boots, she would not have been very attractive. But she was wearing good boots and that always helps. As I was waiting for my bus, an Eastern European woman passed by me wearing knee high tan 1" heel boots. She was wearing a short skirt and her coat game just to her hem line. Even though, her boots were only 1" she looked very good in them.
The nightlight of the day was a text conversation I had with a friend. She texted me and showed me the zipper on google. Turns out she was wearing some of the best boots of all-time. She's had them for about five years. They are triple-tone brown with a 3" heel. Unbelievable! To her boots are an everyday item.. to Us they are life changing events.
BootBoy must now sleep, but the Nation is always awake...

Special Post: Boot History

Thanks to Google for bringing the Zipper to the world's attention with the Doodle for Google promotion showing the zipper.

Gideon Sundbäck (April 24, 1880 – June 21, 1954) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer. Gideon Sundbäck is most commonly associated with his work in the development of the zipper.^[1]

Contents [hide] 1 Background 2 Career 3 Personal 4 Legacy 5 1917 patent 6 References 7 External links

Background

Otto Fredrik Gideon Sundbäck was born on Sonarp farm in Ödestugu Parish, in Jönköping County, Småland, Sweden. He was the son of Jonas Otto Magnusson Sundbäck, a prosperous farmer, and his wife Kristina Karolina Klasdotter. After his studies in Sweden, Sundbäck moved to Germany, where he studied at the polytechnic school in Bingen am Rhein. In 1903, Sundbäck took his engineer exam. In 1905, he emigrated to the United States.^[2][3]

Career

In 1905, Gideon Sundbäck started to work at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1906, Sundbäck was hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company of Hoboken, New Jersey. Subsequently in 1909,^[4] Sundbäck was promoted to the position of head designer at Universal Fastener.
Sundbäck made several advances in the development of the zipper between 1906 and 1914, while working for companies that later evolved into Talon, Inc. He built upon the previous work of other engineers such as Elias Howe, Max Wolff, and Whitcomb Judson.
He was responsible for improving the "Judson C-curity Fastener". At that time the company's product was still based on hooks and eyes. Sundbäck developed an improved version of the C-curity, called the "Plako", but it too had a strong tendency to pull apart, and was not any more successful than the previous versions. Sundbäck finally solved the pulling-apart problem in 1913, with his invention of the first version not based on the hook-and-eye principle, the "Hookless Fastener No. 1". He increased the number of fastening elements from four per inch to ten or eleven. His invention had two facing rows of teeth that pulled into a single piece by the slider, and increased the opening for the teeth guided by the slider.^[5]

Drawing of the 1914 patent filing

In 1914, Sundbäck developed a version based on interlocking teeth, the "Hookless No. 2", which was the modern metal zipper in all its essentials. In this fastener each tooth is punched to have a dimple on its bottom and a nib or conical projection on its top. The nib atop one tooth engages in the matching dimple in the bottom of the tooth that follows it on the other side as the two strips of teeth are brought together through the two Y channels of the slider. The teeth are crimped tightly to a strong fabric cord that is the selvage edge of the cloth tape that attaches the zipper to the garment, with the teeth on one side offset by half a tooth's height from those on the other side's tape. They are held so tightly to the cord and tape that once meshed there is not enough play to let them pull apart. A tooth cannot rise up off the nib below it enough to break free, and its nib on top cannot drop out of the dimple in the tooth above it. U.S. Patent 1,219,881 for the "Separable Fastener" was issued in 1917.^[6]
The name zipper was created in 1923 by B.F. Goodrich, who used the device on their new boots. Initially, boots and tobacco pouches were the primary use for zippers; it took another twenty years before they caught on in the fashion industry. About the time of World War II the zipper achieved wide acceptance for the flies of trousers and the plackets of skirts and dresses.^[7]
Sundbäck also created the manufacturing machine for the new zipper. Lightning Fastener Company, one early manufacturer of the zipper, was based in St. Catharines, Ontario. Although Sundbäck frequently visited the Canadian factory as president of the company, he resided in Meadville, Pennsylvania and remained an American citizen. Sundbäck was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1951. Sundbäck died of a heart condition in 1954 and was interred at Greendale cemetery in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Personal

In 1909, Sundbäck married Elvira Aronson, daughter of the Swedish born plant manager Peter Aronsson.

Legacy

In 2006, Gideon Sundbäck was honored by inclusion in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work on the development of the zipper.^[7][8] On April 24, 2012, the 132nd anniversary of Sundbäck's birth, Google changed the Google logo on its homepage to a Google Doodle of the zipper, which when opened revealed the results of a search for Gideon Sundback.^[9]

1917 patent

The goddess was pleased today and provided boots for her admirers.

I saw three very nice pairs:
Pair One: a very pretty Persian young woman walking with her boyfriend at lunch. She was waring knee high flat heel riding boots with the cutest buckle at the very bottom of her ankle. Her boots had a nice band of suede at the top and the rest of the boot was patent leather. Her boots look expensive and made her look quite powerful.
Pair Two: As I was leaving the work were on a pretty brunette talking on her cell phone. She was wearing knee high zip up 1-inch black leather boots. Her boots made her look extremely elegant.
Pair Three: After I left the bar...watching my beloved Giants, I walked past a pretty Asian women wearing knee high motorcycle boots. I told her I liked her boots and she gave me a hearty, Thank you. I got the feeling that she really liked her boots and was glad someone else liked them as well.

If you see any boots, please share with the rest of us. Boot Nation lives!