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   Red Wing makes boots for women, as well, and the Clara is a best-selling style. The classic bootie has a small heel with a textured outsole for good grip, and it comes in three stylish leather ...

3. Huarache (shoe) - Wikipedia

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   The sandals are believed related to the cactle or cactli, of Náhuatl origin. The name "huarache" is derived from the Purépecha language term kwarachi, and directly translates into English as sandal. [citation needed] Early forms have been found in and traced to the countryside farming communities of Jalisco, Michoacan, Guanajuato and Yucatan.

4. 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.

5. High-heeled shoe - Wikipedia

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   Over the course of the Enlightenment, men's heels began to concentrate on either practical riding boots or tall leather boots worn for status. [3] In the late 1780s, the societal implications of wearing high and thin heels became fixed: high, thin heels represented femininity and the supposed superficiality and extravagance of women. [10]

6. Brogue shoe - Wikipedia

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   Pair of full brogue shoes. The brogue (derived from the Gaeilge bróg (), and the Gaelic bròg for "shoe") [1] [2] is a style of low-heeled shoe or boot traditionally characterised by multiple-piece, sturdy leather uppers with decorative perforations (or "broguing") and serration along the pieces' visible edges.

7. Patent leather - Wikipedia

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   Riding boot from 1910–1920s. An early reference to patent leather is in the 1793 British periodical The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, which notes, in an article entitled "Hand's patent leather", that "a gentleman of the name of Hand" in Birmingham, England, obtained a patent for preparing flexible leather having a glaze and polish that renders it impervious to water and need only be ...