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A sandal so durable Mexicans wove the soles from used car tires.
means A traditional Mexican sandal made of woven leather straps, often with a sole cut from old rubber tires.
from From Mexican Spanish 'huarache,' borrowed from an indigenous language of western Mexico — likely Purépecha (Tarascan), spoken in Michoacán, where the woven-strap sandal has been made for centuries. The word later traveled into wider Spanish and English, and 'huaraches' also names a tire-soled footwear style and, separately, a sandal-shaped Mexican dish of masa — both echoing that woven-strap, foot-shaped form.
- name origin
- From Purépecha word kwarachi, predating the Spanish conquest
- tire soles
- Recycled rubber tires became the classic huarache sole
- nike sneaker
- Tinker Hatfield named 1991's Air Huarache after them
- also food
- A flat masa dish shaped like the sandal's sole
huaraches de tolosa — traditional sandals handmade in tolosa, spain, with leather straps and esparto grass soles since the 19th century
mexican huaraches footwear — woven leather sandals worn across mexico, particularly in rural oaxaca and chiapas regions
nike huarache sneaker — athletic shoe model first designed by peter moore in 1991, named after the traditional sandal