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(Giant shoe Image via kompas.com ) Tucked away deep in the woods in an isolated location on the Isle of White is a shoe-shaped house. The origins remain shrouded and some people speculate it was a wealthy eccentric’s folly or designed and built as a marketing stunt for a shoe company. No one appears to know. (Video Courtesy: Abandoned Isle of Wight by Youtube Channel) The giant lace-up boot is well made and had been a bright red exterior with intricate detailing. The rooms are surprisingly spacious, with high ceilings and plenty of natural light. It is widely thought a woman lived for a ..read more

Why should the truth get in the way of a good fairy tale? In the original Cinderella her shoes was made of fur but due to bad translation from the original French, became glass for the Disney movie. Dorothy (Gale) also had a costume change and did not wear Ruby slippers as seen in the film version of L.Frank Baum’s The wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), but wore silver shoes instead. Now we could not contemplate these classic shoes in any other way. They have left such a deep impression with fantasists and movie goers that there is an entire book written on the history of Dorothy’s shoes. The ..read more

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( Melanie Griffith Image via filmaffinity.com) It may surprise you but many CBD commuters travel to and fro work wearing trainers. Concerns for foot health among a generation of power dressers has prompted a young Australian shoe designer to develop a prototype heeled shoe which converts to a lower "sensible" heel so promenaders need not lose the edge of fashion as they step out to walk to work. ( transport strike in NY Image via pinterest) There are three competing theories to explain the rise in popularity of sporty shoes in older populations. The first relates to a transport strike ..read more

( Orderic Vitalis Image via The History Jar) According to Grew and de Neergaard (2004 p.113), Orderic Vitalis the 11th century monk recorded much of the social events of his time,and attributed Fulk le Réchin (1043 - 1109), as the originator of the poulaine (pigaches or Pigage). Orderic Vitalis noted French aristocratto as "a man with many reprehensible, even scandalous, habits." (Fulk le Réchin Image via Find a grave) According to Rossi (1976), Fulk le Réchin suffered painful bunions and ingrown toenails and commissioned his cordwainer to craft him a designer pair of shoes to accommod ..read more

( Swing Image via pinterest) The youth of the thirties and forties celebrated living by throwing off the old image of dancing locked together in the embrace of the waltz and tango, so they jitterbugged. Free movement was the order of the day and sturdy supporting shoes with certain elegance became fashionable with the Norwegian loafer (later known as the Penny Loafer) taking prominence. ( Penny Loafers Image via magazine.brooksbrothers.com) When the jitterbug of the forties was replaced by the jive of the fifties the frankest public portrayal of sex yet was performed by dancers wearing ..read more

(William Rossi Image via nsra.org ) Bill Rossi was a podiatrist who became a prolific commentator on matters of the foot and footwear. In 1984 he was commission to write Professional Shoe Fitting (co-authored by Ross Tenant, D.P.M.), by the National Shoe Retailers Association (NSRA) and the book continues to be the industry's authoritative basis for training people to fit shoes. Bill was the son of a custom shoe maker who also owned a family shoe store in Boston that served customers for more than 50 years. The young Rossi helped out in the store, where his lifelong fascination with shoes ..read more

( art mannequin Image via pinterest) The idea our bodies operate as a whole i.e. head, intestines and limbs, dates back to Antiquity. In the fables of Aesop, he reminds people, "limbs" must be co-operated with the head (or Senate). Romans believed the head contained the soul which in turn directed the body. The innards which processed food and nourished the whole body were regarded as the seat of passions with the liver given the same emphasis as the heart is today. The body metaphor was eagerly adopted by Christians and the Church became the body, with believers as "multiple limbs" of whi ..read more