Shoes Through the Centuries

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Shoes has been warn for many centuries and evolved over time and serve the purpose of protecting and providing comfort for people’s feet and also they have benefited people in the fashion and sports industry through the many different types of shoes that people wear.
Shoes are for covering of the foot some are made out of leather they use to be made out of mud, wood, and other available materials they could find. It has an sturdy bottom and sometimes doesn’t reach above the ankle.
40,000 BC was the first year of clear evidence of foot covering in the ice age period of life. 4000 BC the primary bendy shoe came from a place called Egypt.3627BC archeologist found the first known leather shoes beside an cave in Armenia. Many people around the world used simple leather sandals in their daily life. “Buskin shoes was also known to be made in Greece and Rome”.(Prehistoric the iceman cometh)
Sandals were first shoes, they were plain practical and consisted of only two parts, those two part are called, sole and thong and later named flip flops they weren’t really made out of anything just anything they could find like wet sand. They were braided then molded in the sole part of the flip flops and then they were ready to be worn
Shoes can tell us a lot about a person it helps you understand the world. The Keith Family of shoe makers traced it ancestry all the way back to the Reverend James Keith, was the first minister of Bridgewater Massachusetts. He came from Scotland in the year of 1662. Bridgewater was the first interior settlement found by families from the Plymouth Colony he moved inland it was here in 1758 Reverend James great grandson was the first person out the family to create shoes in his small house. He passed his work ethic do...

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...eck the sizing charts because different shoes run in different sizes. Women’s casual shoes are different types they have flats , slip on , flip flops. (Types of shoes )
Canvas flats is a trendy and most people can afford them and its lightweight helps out when your going on a trip or something. The leather slip on is the most common is the flat there isn’t a lot of sole on the flats but they are made to be comfortable but they are not made for walking miles and hours but they are easy to slip on and take off. Flip flops has it own style and heel added to it and different colors there aren’t much to say about the flip flop because they are simple shoes walking shoes are the best and comfortable shoes because they have cushion in the inside that makes you feel like your walking on the clouds there are a lot of walking shoes like New balance, Nike. (Types of shoes )

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