The last lap of the month ‘don’ come o. To the people that received flowers, chocolates, and gifts, ‘una’ well done and to people like us that did not get anything, we move.
This week is for gist; shoe gist. I’ll be dishing out stuff you didn’t know about shoes. Follow me…
- Did you know that men were the first to wear heels?- In the 10th century, men who rode horses needed their boots to have heels in order to stay in their stirrups. (Ever wonder why cowboy boots have heels?) And since owning horses was a sign of wealth, heels became a signifier of aristocracy and high social standing, not gender.
- Platform shoes used to be worn by Greek actors to signify status- When the Ancient Greeks staged plays, costumes were crucial for audiences to identify characters. The Kennedy Center writes that tragic actors would don shoes called “buskins,” or raised platform shoes, to symbolize their superiority over comic actors, who would wear plain socks.
- Sneakers got their name because their rubber soles do not make noise- In the late1800s, people started calling sneakers their name because they had rubber soles which enabled people to walk or “sneak” around without making a sound.
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