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An Oxford shoe is a type of shoe characterized by shoelace eyelet tabs that are attached under the vamp, [1] a feature termed "closed lacing". [2] This contrasts with Derbys , or bluchers , which have shoelace eyelets attached to the top of the vamp. [ 3 ]
Black shoelace. Shoelaces, also called shoestrings (US English) or bootlaces (UK English), are a system commonly used to secure shoes, boots, and other footwear. They typically consist of a pair of strings or cords, one for each shoe, finished off at both ends with stiff sections, known as aglets. Each shoelace typically passes through a series ...
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.
Woman's silk damask shoes with buckles, 1740–1750, England. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.81.71.1a-b.. Shoe buckles are fashion accessories worn by men and women from the mid-17th century through the 18th century to the 19th century.
It is distinguished from a bead in that it is non-tubular; it has two points of entry/exit for the shoelace, as a belt or webbing may pass through a buckle. Although primarily decorative in purpose, one could argue a dubraé is also functional in that once threaded to the midpoint of a shoelace, it assists in centering the shoelace in the shoe ...
A British clog is a wooden-soled clog from Great Britain. The uppers are typically leather, and many variations exist in style and fastening. History
Footwear has been used by humans since prehistoric times, with paleoclimatology suggesting that they would have been needed in some areas of human settlement by at least 50,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Period.
A court shoe (British English) or pump (American English) is a shoe with a low-cut front, or vamp, with either a shoe buckle or a black bow as ostensible fastening. Deriving from the 17th- and 18th-century dress shoes with shoe buckles, the vamped pump shape emerged in the late 18th century.