Some fascinating shoes facts
–Shoes in Greece were famous for reaching the knees sometimes!
- The shoes of the present day style appeared in England in 1633. Until that time, in the ninth or tenth century, all the mightiest aristocrats in Europe had to wear wooden shoes. Slippers were used even before Shakespeare was born, and from the very beginning were made “rights” and “lefts.”
- Shoes among the Jews were made of leather, linen, rush or wood; soldiers’ shoes were sometimes made of brass or iron. The Jews made their shoes of leather, linen, rush or wood, and the shoes of soldiers were sometimes made of metal – iron or brass!
- According to some sources, “in the reign of William Rufus of England, in the eleventh century, a great beau, “Robert, the Horned,” used shoes with sharp points, stuffed with tow, and twisted like rams’ horns”.
-In Ancient Rome two types of shoes were made. The first one was called calceus. It covered the whole foot and had to be worn with toga when a person left his home. The second one was called solea, it only covered the sole of a foot and could be warn at home or with friends.
- In the times of Richard II shoes were enormously long, that is why they had to be tied to the knees with little chains, which sometimes were golden or silver. In 1463 the parliament of England considered this to be a problem and passed and act, that forbade the spikes of the shoes to be longer than two inches.
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