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Everyone needs to buy shoes, lots of shoes. Shoes, wonderful, beautiful shoes. Everyone needs summer shoes, winter shoes, beach shoes, snow shoes, school shoes. We have special shoes for running, walking, golfing, baseball, basket ball, foot ball, training, dancing, and swimming to name a few. We also buy shoes for fitness and health.
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They have come very far in the thousands of years they have been around. From leaves, bark and bag-like wrappings of fur or skins to rubber flip flops highly engineered walking shoes. We can buy shoes with prices ranging from around a dollar for rubber thongs to $6,500 for a pair of mink-lined golf shoes, with eighteen-carat gold ornamentation and ruby-tipped gold spikes that sold in England.
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Shoes have such an incredibly long history. The “Ice Man” found in the alps was wearing shoes that were made of a rawhide bearskin sole, deer hide for the top panels, and a netting made of tree bark. Soft grass went around the foot and in the shoe and functioned like modern socks. The ‘Ice Man” is about 5300 years old.
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That different styles of shoes have been used to establish the social and economic status of the owner is as old as Western civilization. For example in ancient Eygpt it was the sandal that showed rank. While slaves went barefoot, commoners used papyrus, the pointed toe sandals were reserved only for the higher stations of society, and the colors red and yellow were taboo for anyone below the aristocratic rank. In the Middle Ages in colder areas the sandal was replaced by a more protective footwear. From leather bound around the foot with a thong to a sabot carved from a single piece of wood.
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In Japan, wooden shoes mounted on thin blocks three or four inches high have been worn for many centuries. The Japanese would select their wooden shoes with an ear for the sound made by the wooden blocks, for a discordant pair of wooden shoes were considered the epitome of poor taste.
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Did you know that in some cultures, the bride's father threw his shoes at the newlyweds to signify the transfer of authority from father to husband. In some areas instead of exchanging rings with her betrothed, the bride would pass her shoes to her husband, who then tapped her on the head with a shoe.
And the shoes of earlier centuries were, for the most part, highly uncomfortable. It wasn't until the development of woven stockings in the seventeenth century that footwear could be made form fitting and shaped to the foot. And it wasn't until 1818 that they made a different shoe for right and left. Before that you had to buy shoes that fit either foot. Ouch that just hurts to think about it!
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When it comes to selecting a shoe and liking how a it looks, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Shoe fashion can be put into 5 separate categories. The shape, the design, the materials it is made of, and the decorations. Women are willing to buy shoe that cause them to stand on their toes all day long for the right look.
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