Patent ID: 8938890
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: A43B,A63C

Abstract:
1. An expandable leather shoe comprising: an upper leather portion having a top portion, one or more side portions and a back portion; the top portion covering a front portion of the shoe; the side portion, the side portion being wrapped about a front closed end of the shoe and extending rearwardly along each side of the shoe to ends; the back portion, the back portion joining the ends of the side portion; a sole, the sole being fixed to the side portion from the front portion and extending to the back portion; a heel, the heel being attached to the sole; and a first elastic member joining the top portion to the side portion at a junction of the top portion and the side portion, the first elastic member being in a shape of an inverted “U” extending along the front of the shoe, the elastic member having sides spaced by the top portion and closed end at the front closed end of the shoe extending from the front portion of the shoe spaced between the top portion and side portion, the first elastic member substantially following the outer periphery along the edge of the sole continuously from the front of the sole extending along the sides and spaced by the side portion from the front directly along the sides wherein the first elastomeric member at the closed end is sewn or otherwise fixed to and overlaps a portion of the side portion wrapped about the front and extends at least partially along each side of the shoe between the top portion and the side portion and extends over the top portion to form a stretching zone along the front of the shoe allowing the one or more sides to flex and stretch outwardly widthwise and lengthwise and the top portion to move vertically to accommodate larger feet, wherein the first elastomeric member is spaced forward of a foot insertion cavity of the expandable leather shoe.