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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.
A woodcut of Kraków (Latin: Cracovia) in Poland from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle. The usual English name poulaine [1] [2] (/ p u ˈ l eɪ n /) is a borrowing and clipping of earlier Middle French soulers a la poulaine ("shoes in the Polish fashion") from the style's supposed origin in medieval Poland. [3]
Reconstruction of a 16th-century Venetian chopine. On display at the Shoe Museum in Lausanne. Calcagnetti (Chopine)- Correr Museum. A chopine is a type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Chopines were originally used as a patten, clog, or overshoe to protect shoes and dresses from mud and street soil.
A turnshoe is a type of leather shoe that was used during the Middle Ages. It was so named because it was put together inside out, and then was turned right-side-out once finished: this hides the main seam between the sole and vamp—prolonging the life of the shoe [1] and inhibiting moisture leaking in through the seam.
It appeared in Medieval Latin as pigacia [3] [4] and pigatia. [5] The pigache is also known as the pigage , [ 6 ] pulley shoe , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] pulley toe , [ 1 ] or pulley-toe shoe . [ 9 ] Less often, Orderic Vitalis 's terms of opprobrium are reworked into names: scorpion's tail or ram's horn shoe . [ 10 ]
As a more rugged alternative to dress shoes, dress boots may be worn (though these can be more formal than shoes). Fashionable boots for women may exhibit all the variations seen in other fashion footwear: tapered or spike heels, platform soles, pointed toes, zipper closures and the like. The popularity of boots as fashion footwear ebbs and flows.
As the shoes became a fashion trend, other members of society began donning high heels, and some elite members ordered their heels to be made even higher to distinguish themselves from the lower classes. [15] As women began to wear heeled shoes in the mid-to-late 17th century, societal trends moved to distinguish men's heels from women's heels.
Inuit boots and shoe-making tools on display at the Bata Shoe Museum, a museum of calceology in Canada. Calceology (from Latin calcei "shoes" and -λογία, -logiā, "-logy") is the study of footwear, especially historical footwear whether as archaeology, shoe fashion history, or otherwise. It is not yet formally recognized as a field of ...