Wear’m, fold’m, and stow’m in your purse, TIEKS™ ballerina flats are not only versatile little shoes, they are engineered for comfort. In fact, they are the shoes that Oprah would wear, if she walked to work (Desmarais, 2022). With a patented split sole, the color of Robin’s egg blue, reminiscent of Tiffany’s trademark blue, these ballet flats are indeed jewels on your feet, on more counts than one.
The split sole enables each ballet flat to fold (see image below), so that a pair might fit into a small pouch, easily stowed in a purse. As a result, each pair of TIEKS™ comes with a small pouch, and a larger tote designed to accommodate (and carry) the other pair of shoes you use, after or before you switch, to or from your TIEKS™ . In other words, no more switching to bulky sports shoes to hit the asphalt after work, 9 to 5 in the financial district. TIEKS™ could even fit in your pocket, for every time you needed to switch, and bounce into the comfort of these little ballet flats.
TIEKS™ are quite extensively patented shoes. The following US design patents cover just the ornamental aspects of the split sole ballet shoe, comprising two blue outsole patches, on every pair of some 60 different models.
- USD664755S - Toe outsole patch
- USD668847S - Split sole shoe
- USD668848S - Split sole shoe
- USD676634S - Split sole shoe
- USD846259S - Ballet shoe
Below, the cover sheet drawing extracted from the US design patent USD668847S depicts top and bottom views of the patented ornamental design of the TIEKS™ split sole shoe.
The short TIEKS™ Youtube video below depicts TIEKS™ styles, in some of the 60 different color-material combinations available.
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Desmarais, C. (Aug. 16, 2022). The shoes that Oprah would wear to work (if she had to walk).
https://www.inc.com/30under30/christina-desmarais/kfir-gavrieli-and-elram-gavrieli-founders-of-tieks.html
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