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2. Peep-toe shoe - Wikipedia

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   A pair of peep-toe shoes. A peep-toe shoe is a woman's shoe (usually a pump, slingback, bootie, or any other dress shoe) in which there is an opening at the toe box which allows the toes to show. Peep-toe shoes were popular beginning in the 1940s [1] [2] but disappeared by the 1960s. [3]

3. Slingback - Wikipedia

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   Slingbacks can be considered a type of sandal [1] and come in a wide variety of styles from casual to dressy, with heel heights ranging from flat to medium and sometimes high, [2] [3] heel types ranging from as thin as a stiletto to as thick as wedges and they can be both closed or open-toe. [4] [5] [6] [7]

4. Winklepicker - Wikipedia

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   The male shoes were lace-up Oxford style with a low heel and an exaggerated pointed toe. A Chelsea boot style (elastic-sided with a two-inch—later as much as two-and-one-half-inch—Cuban heels) was notably worn by the Beatles but although it had a pointed toe, was not considered to be a winklepicker. Winklepicker shoes were also worn by ...

5. Shoe - Wikipedia

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   The earliest known shoes are sagebrush bark sandals dating from approximately 7000 or 8000 BC, found in the Fort Rock Cave in the US state of Oregon in 1938. [5] The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in the Areni-1 cave complex in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3500 BC.

6. Pointe shoe - Wikipedia

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   Nothing in pointe shoe design prevents a foot’s "slippage", in which, when en pointe, the dancer’s weight forces their foot down into the shoe until their big toe meets the end of the toe box. Measurements have shown that most of the dancer's weight en pointe is borne by the big toe(s) regardless of the length of the second toe.

7. Stiletto heel - Wikipedia

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   High-heeled shoes were worn by men and women courtiers until the French Revolution. When high heels came back in style in the late 1800s, they were worn only by women. [ 1 ] The stiletto heel came with the advent of technology using a supporting metal shaft or stem embedded into the heel, instead of wood or other, weaker materials that required ...