History of shoes

[diane1]

A school project on- The History of Shoes - any ideas on where we may start our search?

[Octavius]

A comprehensive link here

[Golem]

As well as the CN Tower Toronto also has the Bata Shoe Museum which has a very informative website here;

http://www.batashoemuseum.ca

[themodgrover]

look downwards!

[donnam]

not sure where you are based, but Norhtampton has a boot and shoe museum www.northampton.gov.uk/museum

[VINNY100_2]

here this site is the clarks online and history site.

[magicdice]

this is one of those topics about which there are remarkable numbers of reference books. in my school's small library, there are at least a dozen, so your local library may well be a good place to start

[magicdice]

this is one of those topics about which there are remarkable numbers of reference books. in my school's small library, there are at least a dozen, so your local library may well be a good place to start.

also, vogue had a fantastic shoe supplement earlier in the year if you're looking for pictures and some more general information about the fashion side of shoes, so have a look at fashion magazines too.

[charliep88]

yes If I may I would like to recall the poem which goes  I was sad because I had no shoes ,Then I saw a man ,he had my shoes

[LordyGeordie]

I'm glad to see school projects have got no more imaginative/ interesting since I left!

[charliep88]

I believe it was soon after augustus caesars decree which stated any man  caught screwing his daughter would be sentenced to walk on a bed of white hot coals.

[charliep88]

the next morn an order for 45,000 pairs of gladiator high-tops were ordered and it is the real reason for the great slave revolt led by KIRK DOUGLAS

[Peter Pedant]

Leicester has a shoe museum too Diane

Oh, Diane, if you get onto shoe concealments, can you sort of give me a buzz?