Old Wooden Footwear

By this time men s shoes had thicker soles and the wealthier males the gentry or.

Old wooden footwear. However there is a possibility that the celtic and germanic peoples from southern and northern europe were familiar with some sort of wooden foot covering. Wooden footwear goes as far back a minimum of 800 years based on data available at the moment. They re a practical shoe that keeps your kimono from dragging on the ground. Most worn out wooden footwear wound up as fire wood making the finds in amsterdam and rotterdam of greater value.

Traditional japanese footwear includes. Whenever they originated clogs and other wood soled shoes have been popular footwear worn by peasants and workers throughout europe since the middle ages. From bare wood to painted in delft blue or the dutch flag most souvenir shops will have what you are looking for. Our wooden shoes are traditional clogs often made by hand from wood in the netherlands.

It s surprisingly hard to tie shoes when you re wearing several layers of tightly wrapped silk robes. The origin of wooden footwear in europe is not precisely known. In our store you can buy all kind of wooden products. Clogs old vintage wood.

You can see their modern interpretation of old dutch wooden shoes at the centraal museum in utrecht. De boer olij makes reference to the high thick soled boots of the greek tragedy actors in antiquity the buskin and to the shoes worn by roman soldiers the caligae. Dutch clogs are very nice and comfortable for yourself and also a unique gift idea. Clogs old vintage wood.

Would you like to buy a pair of original wooden shoes. Each shoe is about 1 1 2 long and are attached to the bar with leather. Fortunately old illustrations and works of art have given some evidence as excavated samples are rare. This is particularly useful in the snow and rain.

A later pattern of patten which seems to date from the 17th century and then became the most common had a flat metal ring which made contact with the ground attached to a metal plate nailed into the wooden sole via connecting metal often creating a platform of by several inches more than 7 centimetres.