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In addition to offering a wide variety of shoes, handbags and accessories, we strive to provide you with the best service in the industry. We feel it is our duty to not only provide you with great service, but we would also like to provide a reference guide for you to learn more about us and our industry. We are giving you the inside scoop to our company glossary so you can learn about shoes, handbags and accessories just like us. We hope this guide is useful to you and will make you feel more confident about the features that our products provide. Enjoy!
Other Guides:
- Measurement Guide:
- A guide to how we measure our products
- Size Conversion Chart:
- A guide to find your correct size no matter the shoe's origin
- Gait
- An individual's style of walking.
- Galoshes
- Waterproof (typically rubber) overshoes or boots meant to protect the foot and footwear from inclement weather.
- Ghillie
- Pronounced "gil-ee", this is a style of footwear in which the laces pass through fabric or leather rings or loops attached to the front opening of the shoe, rather than eyelets.
- Girth
- The circumference of a shoe last measured around the ball of the foot.
- Goatskin
- Leather made from the hide of a goat.
- Gold Filled
- A layer of gold pressure-bonded to another metal. Not to be confused with "gold plated" , Gold filled jewelrt is more valuable and tarnish resistant than the latter. It will not rub off, tarnish or turn colors like some gold plated jewelry might over time. Gold filled jewelry is made from solid gold and filled with other alloys such as rhodium (a member of the platinum family), brass, and sterling silver.
- Gold Vermeil
- Sterling silver coated with 14 carat (58%) gold. To be considered vermeil, the gold must also be at least 10 carat (42%). Sterling silver covered with another metal cannot be called vermeil.
- Gold-Plated
- A base metal (usually copper) with a thin layer of gold on the surface.
- Goodyear Welt
- A shoe construction in which the upper and sole of the shoe are stitched together, resulting in greater durability. The resulting seam is visible and runs around the outside of the shoe, where the upper and outsole meet.
- Gore
- An elastic panel stitched into either side of a shoe's vamp in order to make it more comfortable and easier to put on and take off.
- Grain
- The inherent surface pattern of leather, differentiated by the animal from which it came.
- Green-Lam™
- Fleurville brand fabric made of environmentally friendly PVC-free polyurethane laminate which provides moisture-repellency, UV resistance and durability.
