Abstract: A method for construction of footwear includes providing an upper defining a volume for receiving a wearer's foot, the upper having a rearward portion with a peripheral lasting edge; providing an outsole having a forward portion, a rearward portion, a walking surface, and a opposed surface opposite to the walking surface, and a cavity formed in at least the forward portion of the opposed surface of the outsole; the method further includes providing and securing resilient material within the cavity of the outsole, and sewing along a peripheral portion of the outsole, the forward portion of the outsole only to the upper. The sewing step includes stitching a thread through the peripheral portion of the opposed surface of the outsole to the walking surface of the outsole. The peripheral lasting edge portion of the upper is lasted along an edge of a last over an insole tuck temporarily secured to the last, and the rearward portion only of the outsole is secured to the lasted rearward portion of the upper.

Abstract: A method for construction of footwear includes providing an upper defining a volume for receiving a wearer's foot, the upper having a rearward portion with a peripheral lasting edge; providing an outsole having a forward portion, a rearward portion and a cavity formed in at least the forward portion of a top surface of the outsole; providing and securing resilient material within the cavity of the outsole; sewing, the forward portion only of the outsole to the upper along a peripheral edge portion of the outsole; lasting, along an edge of a last, the peripheral lasting edge portion of the upper over an insole tuck temporarily secured to the last; and securing the rearward portion only of the outsole to the lasted rearward portion of the upper. This dual-approach construction method combines the advantages of increased comfort at the front portion of the wearer's foot with attractiveness and good support at the rearward portion of a shoe.