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An engineer has finally figured out how to design stylish safety boots for women

An engineer has finally figured out how to design stylish safety boots for women

Mechanical engineer Anastasia Kraft’s life may be world’s apart from Hollywood actresses who’ve uttered versions of this maxim, but she too believes in it. After years of working as a project manager and engineer in Wisconsin, the Kazakhstan-raised, German-educated Kraft took an unexpected career detour in 2018 when she launched Xena Workwear, a brand of stylish, steel-toed boots that are compliant with US government safety standards. Kraft’s foray in fashionable safety footwear was largely shaped by her frustration over having to lumber through factories in ill-fitting boots originally designed for men.