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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. Calceus - Wikipedia

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    The Latin word calceus derives from calx ("heel") and the usually Grecian suffix -eus, meaning essentially "heely" or "thing for the heel". It is frequently taken loosely as the general Latin word for any laced and covered shoe [1] distinguished from sandals, slippers, and boots. Theodor Mommsen even considered it to sometimes intend sandals as ...

  4. Sandal - Wikipedia

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    Roman sandal, a sandal held to the foot by a vamp composed of a series of equally spaced, buckled straps; Saltwater sandals, a flat sandal developed in the 1940s as a way of coping with wartime leather shortages, primarily worn by children; Soft foam sandals, invented in 1973, are made from closed-cell soft foam and uses surgical tubing for the ...

  5. Hermes Fastening his Sandal - Wikipedia

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    The Lansdowne Sandal Binder (marble, 1.54m.), found in Gavin Hamilton's excavations in 1769 at the site of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, was offered to Pope Clement XIV who refused it, and sold in 1772 to the Earl of Shelburne; [9] it was sold in 1930 and is now at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, where Poulsen described it as probably ...

  6. Hobnail - Wikipedia

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    Reconstruction of Ancient Roman caliga. Hobnailed boots (in Scotland "tackety boots") are boots with hobnails (nails inserted into the soles of the boots), usually installed in a regular pattern, over the sole. They usually have an iron horseshoe-shaped insert, called a heel iron

  7. Flip-flops - Wikipedia

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    The leaves of the sisal plant were used to make twine for sandals in South America, while the natives of Mexico used the yucca plant. [12] The Ancient Greeks and Romans wore versions of flip-flops as well. In Greek sandals, the toe strap was worn between the first and second toes, while Roman sandals had the strap between the second and third toes.

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