Blake Summers
When making shoes, there is math involved. I decided to uses high heels because of the arch it has. Depending on the angle of the shoe is what makes the person able to wear them or not. Some people also like the heels to be higher than others and that also has to do with math because when the shoe people are calculating the height. There all the different heights ranging from one point five inch up to five inches. The one point five inch would be called kitten heel and the five inch heel would be called a stiletto. Im sure that there is a computer nowadays that would have all the information to make a high heel but back then, there was not that type of technology. That is when the people actually had to make the shoes by hand. The slant of the heel would usually be fifty three degrees and then the actually whole shoe would be forty degrees. The shoes must be put on a conveyer belt so that the workers can slide the soles into the shoe, which also has to do with math because the conveyer belt is a certain length and that had to be measured mathematically.
Blake Summers
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Camryn King
5/5/2016 09:57:22 am
Cool post! This makes me wonder how thick the heel needs to be for people to be able to wear them. I've seen heels that are really tall but it looks very skinny like it would snap under any pressure, but they don't. I'm sure there has to be math used for determining the width of the heel so that it's small enough to look good but big enough to support someone's weight.
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Colin Williams
5/5/2016 05:24:04 pm
I don't know much about high heels other than what they look like or what their purpose is but I can see the math involved in them. However, I think when people were making it before computers came into play they did not really think about the math as much as getting a product. What I mean by this is a lot of time we don't see the math in something and just make something when it could be made better through the use of math.
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Fayth Serlick
5/5/2016 06:36:47 pm
I think this was a great topic to use and show how math could have been put into this. I agree with Colin though, the shoe makers probably weren't thinking about all the math involved when making those shoes and could have improved the quality by using some math.
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Jessica Ruiz
5/5/2016 06:44:23 pm
This is really interesting to think about. On the rare occasions when I wear high heels, I never really consider the math that goes into their creation or categorization. Weight distribution is a very important element to consider when making them in addition to the angle, which mostly has to do with the type of shoe it is (i.e. stilettos versus wedges.) Great post!
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Riley Howell
5/5/2016 07:03:52 pm
You did a great job explaining the arch and angle of heels. You could also consider the math in order for a heel to be comfortable, or walk normal. (I looked it up lol)
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Hannah Williamson
5/6/2016 05:52:24 am
Wow this is really interesting! I've never really thought about how math is used in just shoes. And to think that we wear them every day, it's really cool to think about how shoes are made and how designers actually have to use math in order to make them! Good Job!!
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Hayley Jones
5/6/2016 07:15:34 am
This is very interesting! I never thought of math in the production of the clothes and shoes that we wear. Everyone has been posting about how math is used everywhere and this is just another post that surprises me because I never thought about it. Great Job!
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Xaviera Pride
5/6/2016 07:16:02 am
Yes, shoes do need a a certain angle, if the shoes have a very sharp angle then people will not be able to wear then, and they need to made into a certain height and angle.
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Reid
5/6/2016 06:04:29 pm
It has never occured to me before. How do these difficulties in construction affect the shows.
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Breana Garner
5/11/2016 08:03:36 am
Although, I can not walk in heels to save my life. This was a good post. I found it very interesting Who would have thought about shoes being incorporated in math?
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