Although footwear is worn and stepped-on, shoes have a special place in history. Through the years, people have followed and worn footwear that are popular even if they could hardly walk in them (this has assured the income of generations of podiatrists, you know).
But footwear is not only about fashion and looking good, According to the French, footwear was a very important part of their political struggle! French workmen used to wear a sabot – a carved wooden shoe. During the height of their protests, workers threw their shoes into machines they were working on and effectively put it out of commission. (Hmm…so this is where the word ‘sabotage’ originated.)
Footwear had had its own colorful history (and I could go on and on endlessly yakking about it). But one thing we can learn from history is that, good footwear will be worn from generation to generation (and bad footwear is for the podiatrists to rejoice about).
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