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Abstract

A high-top athletic or leisure shoe is provided, in which the top portion of the shoe leg is made of padded material which includes a piece of reinforcing material on the outer surface of the shoe at substantially the height of the outer malleolus. At least one two-segment tightening strip is provided extending from the reinforced zone. One segment of the tightening strip rises diagonally from the reinforced zone along the outer surface of the shoe leg to near the upper end of the latter at the back of the shoe, and continues substantially horizontally along the upper end of the inner surface of the shoe leg above the inner malleolus. A second segment rises diagonally from the reinforced zone, and extends across the frontal lacing area of the shoe toward the inner surface of the shoe leg. A provision is made for joining the two segments of the strip over the front and inner surface of the shoe leg so as to adjustably fasten the strip in position with a desired degree of tightness.

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