An athletic shoe with a shoe upper having a plurality of panels, each of which is secured at a lower edge to the sole of the shoe, and has an arc-shaped upper edge including a high strength flexible loop of cable secured at each of its ends to the sole of the shoe. Each cable is hemmed into the periphery...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5371957?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5371957 - Athletic shoe
