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Facts about shoes

Over 100 different operations go into the construction of an individual shoe
In Europe it wasnt until the eighteenth century that womens shoes were different from mens.
13. The first ladys boot was designed for Queen Victoria in 1840
14. Six-inch-high heels were worn by the upper classes in seventeenth-century Europe. Two
servants, one on either side, were needed to hold up the person wearing the high heels.
16. The present fashion of shoes was introduced into England in 1633.
17. In the ninth and tenth centuries the greatest princes of Europe wore wooden shoes.
18. Slippers were in use before Shakespeares time, and were originally made rights and lefts.
19. In the reign of William Rufus of England, in the eleventh century, a great beau, Robert, the
Horned, used shoes with sharp points, stuffed with tow, and twisted like rams horns.
20. The Romans made use of two kinds of shoesthe solea, or sandal, which covered the sole of the
foot, and was worn at home and in company, and the calceus, which covered the whole foot and
was always worn with the toga when a person went abroad.
21. In the reign of Richard II., shoes were of such absurd length as to require to be supported by
being tied to the knees with chains, sometimes of gold and silver. In 1463 the English parliament
took the matter in hand and passed an act forbidding shoes with spikes more than two inches in
length being worn and manufactured.
25. In 1875 a machine for making a different type of shoe was developed. Later known as the
Goodyear Welt Sewing Machine, it was used for making both Welt and Turn shoes. These machines
became successful under the management of Charles Goodyear, Jr., the son of the famous inventor
of the process of vulcanizing rubber.
26. High heels for women are believed to have originated with Catherine de Medici, a 16th century
Italian noblewoman who was short in stature and wanted to make a bigger impression when she
arrived in France to marry the future King Henry.
29. The open-toed shoe became fashionable in the 1930s as a result of the new vogue for
sunbathing.
30. Roger-Henri Vivier is credited with inventing (or at least re-popularizing) the stiletto heel in the
1950s.
31. Despite all of cutbacks during World War II, high shoes were very in style. Designers created tall,
uplifting heels using materials that werent rationed, like wood straw and snakeskin.
32. The boots Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in are still floating around in space.



33. Boots were first worn in cold, mountainous regions and hot, sandy deserts where horse-riding
communities lived. Heels on boots kept feet secure in the stirrups.
34. Sandals originated in warm climates where the soles of the feet needed protection but the top
of the foot needed to be cool.
35. Pumps These are shoes where the foot is supported all around the shoe front, back and on
both sides and can have an ankle strap. The sole is a one piece type with a heel of any size with a
high heel pump often called a stiletto.
36. Open toe shoe This is basically a pump shoe as described above where the front is cut away to
expose all of the toes. When this is done to only expose the big toe or middle toes using a smaller
cutaway it would be refered to as a peep hole shoe.
37. Wedge Shoe This is any type of heeled footwear where the there is no gap below the sole
meaning the full length of the base of the shoe makes contact with the ground.
38. Mule This type of shoe is one which has a heel but has no support around the ankle and rear of
the shoe or another way to describe it is as a heeled flip flop. These can be completely closed at the
front or cut away as an open toe or peep hole shoe.
94. Most experts agree that bare feet are best for your baby, up until they start standing and
walking.
95. The average person walks 2,000 miles a year.
96. Plato and Aristotle believed going bare footed diminished the libido and wearing shoes added to
ones sexual power.
97. The best time to try on shoes is usually at the end of the day, when your feet are most swollen.









We used the website wordpress.com so we were more educated with the facts and
history about shoes. We can also use these facts during our documentary on the
voiceover to educate the audience.


Article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27662088- This is an article about shoes that made us more
informed on the history of shoes. We can again add this into the documentary. Also when
interviewing a shoe expert.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/why-our-feet-are-getting-
bigger-9481529.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE5m8xzP7nc
http://www.smartgirl.org/reports/1980471.html



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE5m8xzP7nc This is a video that we found that
shoes the many varieties of shoes to gain a bigger knowledge on the kind of styles around. This will
help us during interviews, to ask the general public.