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Random Facts about Shoes
Grecian shoes were peculiar in
reaching to the middle of the legs. The
present fashion of shoes was introduced
into England in 1633. In the ninth and
tenth centuries the greatest princes of
Europe wore wooden shoes. Slippers were
in use before Shakespeare's time, and
were originally made "rights" and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. 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. |
