Patent ID: 8205358

Claim:
A footwear, comprising: an upper having upper-holes around an upper peripheral; a sole having a lip portion on a sole peripheral, wherein the lip portion has sole-holes around the sole peripheral and the sole-holes being half as numerous as the upper holes; and a thread attaching the upper and the sole through the upper-holes and the sole-holes by a series of diagonal stitches disposed along the lip portion, wherein each diagonal stitch of the series of diagonal stitches is formed by the thread being passed into a first upper-hole of the upper-holes, out a second upper-hole of the upper holes, over and diagonally across an outside of the lip portion and into a sole-hole of the sole-holes wherein a ripple is formed between each pair of adjacent diagonal stitches, and the thread forms at least one horizontal stitch on an inside portion of the footwear; and wherein diagonal stitches pull the upper-holes and the sole-holes out of alignment and the thread is disposed relatively below the ripple.