Both practical and whimsical, she is credited with numerous 'firsts' such as the Spring-o-lator and the topless 'No' shoe. While Beth's name remains virtually unknown, her designs are not, such as the iconic white go-go boots made famous by Nancy Sinatra's 1966 song, "These boots are made for walkin'."Over her long career, Beth popularized such styles as mules, stilettos and fashion boots, and her shoes became favorites among designers and celebrities alike, from Halston to Geoffrey Beene, Marilyn Monroe to Cher, as well as four of America's First Ladies.
Russia leather, originally vegetable-tanned calfskin dressed with birch oil that imparted a characteristic odor and often dyed red with brazilwood, is a term now covering a number of variants. Rawhide is similar to parchment parchment, untanned skins of animals, especially of the sheep, calf, and goat, prepared for use as a writing material.