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2. Caligae - Wikipedia

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   Like all Roman footwear, the caliga was flat-soled. It was laced up the center of the foot and onto the top of the ankle. The Spanish scholar Isidore of Seville believed that the name "caliga" derived from the Latin callus ("hard leather"), or else from the fact that the boot was laced or tied on (ligere). Strapwork styles varied from maker to ...

3. Clarks (shoe retailer) - Wikipedia

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   The museum displayed some 1,500 shoes as well as related exhibits, describing the development of shoes from Roman times and especially detailing the growth of Clarks shoes and shoemaking in Somerset. [96] In 2002, a charity called the Alfred Gillett Trust was established to care for the archives and collections of C&J Clark Ltd and the Clark ...

4. Clothing in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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   Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802093196. Erdkamp, Paul, ed. (2007). A Companion to the Roman Army. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-1444339215. Flohr, Miko (2013). The World of the Fullo: Work, Economy, and Society in Roman Italy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199659357. Flower, Harriet I ...

5. Patten (shoe) - Wikipedia

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   Pattens were worn during the Middle Ages outdoors, and in public places, over (outside of) the thin soled shoes of that era. Pattens were worn by both men and women during the Middle Ages, and are especially seen in art from the 15th century; a time when poulaines—shoes with very long, pointed toes—were particularly in fashion.

6. Calceus - Wikipedia

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   By the mid-imperial period, this was probably made of black leather. [13] The "turned calceus" (New Latin calceus repandus) was an unrelated pointy-toed unisex Etruscan form of footwear, which received its name from a passage in Cicero where he references Juno Sospita's calceoli, "little calceus-like shoes". [14]

7. Soccus - Wikipedia

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   A comedic actor in socci [1]. A soccus (pl. socci) or sýkkhos (Ancient Greek: σύκχος, pl. sýkkhoi), sometimes given in translation as a slipper, was a loosely fitting slip-on shoe [2] in Ancient Greece and Rome with a leather sole and separate leather, bound without the use of hobnails.

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9. Carbatina - Wikipedia

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   By the time of the Roman Empire, use was generally restricted to the rural poor [1] although they remained a step up from going barefoot, which by then was a mark of extreme poverty or slavery. [9] Carbatinae were seldom used even by poor Romans by the 3rd century, [ 11 ] by then having been replaced by shoes , slippers , boots , and other ...