Women's shoes with detachable pouch or showcase for interchangeable fashion inserts

Abstract

Women's shoes with a detachable pouch or detachable lift-off top showcase for interchangeable designer inserts, where the detachable pouch or detachable showcase is in the form of a strip which is disposed directly above and is longitudinally aligned along a center of a sole of said shoe, and where an upper end of said strip is attached at a first attachment point on a strap which encircles a portion of a woman's ankle, and a lower end of said strip is attached at a second attachment point at a forefoot retaining band located at a forefoot portion of the shoe.

1 .- 36 . (canceled) 
     
     
         37 . A woman's shoe with a buckle-on detachable display pouch or showcase for display of an interchangeable fashion insert, said shoe with display pouch or showcase comprising:
 a shoe which includes at least one buckled ankle wrap strap, at least one buckled instep retaining strap, and at least one forefoot retaining band which includes at least one buckled strap;   a buckle-on detachable display pouch or showcase for display of an interchangeable fashion insert, wherein said buckle-on detachable display pouch or showcase includes a strip comprising slots or channels through which straps to be buckled may passed, to attach said display pouch or showcase to said shoe; and   wherein said strip extends from said at least one buckled ankle wrap strap to said at least one buckled instep retaining strap, to said at least one forefoot retaining band which includes at least one buckled strap, in a manner such that said strip interconnects and is suspended between said at least one buckled ankle wrap strap and said at least one forefoot retaining band with at least one buckled strap, so that said strip comprising said display pouch or showcase is disposed directly above and is longitudinally aligned along a center of a sole of said shoe,   wherein said interchangeable fashion design insert is stabilized and maintained in a given position within said display pouch or showcase member due to frictional and gravitational forces when said woman walks in said shoe.   
     
     
         38 . A woman's shoe in accordance with  claim 37 , wherein said shoe includes a buckle-on detachable display pouch, and wherein said detachable display pouch comprises a top opening and includes a transparent outer layer of plastic sheet material through which said interchangeable fashion insert is visible, said transparent outer layer of plastic sheet material comprising peripheral edges,
 wherein a double edged frame member, which affixes the peripheral edges of said transparent outer layer of plastic sheet material to a peripheral edge of said display pouch, wraps over, and around an edge portion of said interchangeable fashion insert, and is attached to a bottom layer of said detachable display pouch, and wherein said double edged frame member has about a millimeter less of underside framing than topside framing, with said underside framing abutting said edge portion of said interchangeable fashion insert, to functionally abut and guide edges of said insert into said display pouch.   
     
     
         39 . A woman's shoe with buckle-on detachable display pouch in accordance with  claim 38 , wherein said interchangeable fashion insert comprises raw cut or unfinished edges, and wherein said raw cut edges are covered so that they are not observed while said insert is present within said display pouch. 
     
     
         40 . A woman's shoe with buckle-on detachable display pouch in accordance with  claim 38 , where said interchangeable fashion insert comprises finished edges. 
     
     
         41 . A woman's shoe with buckle-on detachable display pouch in accordance with  claim 38 , wherein said interchangeable fashion insert finished edges include ribbons which are visible through said double-edged frame member. 
     
     
         42 . A woman's shoe with buckle-on detachable display pouch in accordance with  claim 38 , wherein at least two sparsely placed, narrow, buckled instep retaining straps are present on said shoe, thereby further stabilizing said buckle-on detachable display pouch, so that a free riding insert which is inserted through a top opening of said display pouch does not shift in position within said display pouch while a woman is walking in said show. 
     
     
         43 . A woman's shoe with buckle-on detachable display pouch in accordance with  claim 38 , wherein said interchangeable fashion insert comprises at least one layer of designer material and one or more underlying layers of support structure designed to function within said display pouch. 
     
     
         44 . A woman's shoe with buckle-on detachable display pouch in accordance with  claim 43 , wherein a layer of designer material is present on each side of said support structure, to provide a reversible fashion design insert. 
     
     
         45 . A woman's shoe with buckle-on detachable display pouch in accordance with  claim 38 , wherein said interchangeable fashion insert is flexibly stiff such that it is easily inserted into said display pouch through a top opening of said display pouch. 
     
     
         46 . A woman's shoe in accordance with  claim 37 , wherein said shoe includes a buckle-on detachable showcase member,
 wherein said buckle-on detachable showcase member comprises a bottom portion including said strip through which straps to be buckled may be passed, to attach said showcase member to said shoe; and   wherein an upper, top portion of said showcase member is attachable to an upward facing surface of said bottom portion of said detachable showcase member;   wherein said top portion of said showcase member includes a transparent plastic sheet material through which said interchangeable fashion insert is visible, and said top portion of said showcase member is attached to said upward facing surface of said strip by a plurality of fasteners, wherein a first mating portion of said fasteners is present on said top portion of said showcase member and a second mating portion of said fasteners is present on said bottom portion of said detachable showcase member.   
     
     
         47 . A woman's shoe with detachable showcase member in accordance with  claim 46 , wherein said fasteners comprise male or female stud snap ons positioned around edges of said top portion of said showcase member, with mating female or male stud snap-ons positioned around the edges of said top portion of said showcase member. 
     
     
         48 . A woman's shoe with detachable showcase member in accordance with  claim 47 , wherein said male stud snap-ons are present on said bottom portion of said detachable showcase member, and said female stud snap-ons are present on the top portion of said showcase member. 
     
     
         49 . A woman's shoe with detachable showcase member in accordance with  claim 44 , wherein a framing layer of material is used in combination with said transparent sheet material to frame a fashion insert which is placed within said showcase, and to stabilize said fasteners positioned around said edges of said layer of transparent plastic sheet material. 
     
     
         50 . A woman's shoe with detachable showcase member in accordance with  claim 46 , wherein said bottom portion including said strip through which straps to be buckled may be passed, includes slots or channels through which said straps may be passed. 
     
     
         51 . A woman's shoe in accordance with  claim 49 , wherein said stabilizing layer of material which frames said fashion insert is sized such that raw cut or unfinished edges of a fashion insert are covered when said showcase member is fastened in place over said bottom portion of said detachable showcase. 
     
     
         52 . A woman's show in accordance with  claim 49 , wherein said stabilizing layer of material is in the form of a ribbon. 
     
     
         53 . A woman's shoe in accordance with  claim 46 , wherein said interchangeable fashion design insert is flexibly stiff so that it will not crimp due to a woman's walking in said shoe.