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His craft Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | was handed down over the family for generations along with his grandson Konrad making the largest advancement in the 1890's. Konrad was a qualified shoe maker and typically made custom shoes and also by 1897 he experienced developed a shoe base that followed the very shape of the ft . sole. These were far more supportive and comfortable to wear in particular when you suffered from painful feet.
These caught on quickly as presently shoes were mainly handmade but that is about to change when using the industrial revolution. Within 10 years of creating the contoured soled shoes or boots many factories were popped that could mass Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | produce cheaper shoes in addition to Birkenstocks sales slumped as they definitely were much more expensive while they haad to be hand made to contain the contoured exclusive.
Not taking this lying down Konrad came across a great idea regarding incorporating his sole into mass produced Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | and that was to form an insert which is put into the finished shoe. These were called arch supports while placed inside the sneaker would give the wearer the same extra support that their handmade shoes provided. This idea caught upon and instead off creating custom shoes Birkenstock started to be a manufacturer of orthopaedic inserts for produced in higher quantities shoes.
Konrad's son Carl become a member his father running the company and by 1925 the actual arch footbed supports as Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | they were called had been becoming popular and known all across Europe as exports were designed to many countries including France, Italy, Austria, Holland, Sweden, Swiss, Czechoslovakia, Norway and Luxembourg.
The word footbed was also registered as being a trademark for Birkenstock and was promoted across Europe by seminars copied with Doctors reports that these arch footbed helps were good for the wearer Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registred or enter the forums! | and helped relieve pain in people that suffered from sore feet. In 1964 Carl's son Karl now earning a living for the company designed and produced the very first Birkenstock soft footbed sandal and also called it the Madrid Sandal. |
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