Interesting facts about shoes

• In Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries heels on shoes were always colored red. High heels were a sign of privilege.
• 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.
• Heels were added to shoes in the Middle East to lift the foot from the burning sand.
• Left- and right-footed shoes all over the world were identical until the nineteenth century, when different shoes were first made in Philadelphia.
• Sneakers were first made in America in 1916. They were called keds.
• Boots were first worn as necessity in cold, mountainous regions and hot, sandy deserts where horse-riding communities lived. Heels on boots kept feet secure in the stirrups.
• Тhe first lady’s boot was designed in 1840 for Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Victoria.
• In Russia, Ukraine, Hungary and some other countries, the groom drinks a toast to his bride out of her wedding shoe. It is a very common wedding tradition.

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