Display soles for articles of footwear

Claim 1

A thermoplastic sole for footwear said sole of sufficient transparency to permit display of the bottom of the article of footwear to which it is attached said thermoplastic comprising a blend of (1) predominantly elastomeric block polymer with (2) an amount of predominantly nonelastomeric block polymer sufficient to provide transparency to said blend, said block polymers chosen from among the group consisting of radial and linear block copolymers prepared from a conjugated diene containing from about 4 to 12 carbon atoms per molecule and a monovinylsubstituted hydrocarbon containing from about 8 to 18 carbon atoms per molecule wherein said radial block copolymers consist essentially of polymers described by the formulas (A-B) x Y or (A-B-A) x Y wherein A represents a polymer segment having nonelastomeric properties, B represents an elastomeric polymer segment, Y represents an atom or group of atoms derived from a polyfunctional treating agent, and x represents the number of functional groups of the treating agent and is at least 3 and said linear block copolymers consist essentially of polymers described as A-B-A or A-B-Y-B-A wherein A represents a polymer segment having nonelastomeric properties, B represents an elastomeric polymer segment, and Y represents an atom or group of atoms derived from a polyfunctional treating agent.