Patent ID: 7802380

Claim:
A shoe construction comprising: a sole having a toe end and an opposite heel end and having opposite right and left sides extending between the toe end and the heel end; an upper of flexible material attached to the sole, the upper extending upwardly from the sole to a top edge of the upper, the upper top edge defining a forefoot opening and an ankle opening into an interior of the shoe inside the upper; a first tongue of flexible material attached to the sole, the first tongue having a length that extends upwardly from the sole and through the forefoot opening to a distal end of the first tongue positioned at the ankle opening; a second tongue of flexible material attached to the sole, the second tongue having a length that extends upwardly from the sole and through the forefoot opening to a distal end of the second tongue positioned at the ankle opening, the second tongue being separate from the first tongue along the length of the second tongue enabling the first and second tongues to be moved separately from each other; and the first tongue having opposite side edges and the second tongue having opposite side edges, with the opposite side edges of the first tongue overlapping and coinciding with the opposite side edges of the second tongue, allowing the opposite side edges of first tongue to have an unobstructed overlapping relationship with the opposite side edges of the second tongue.