The Importance of Footwear

elizabeth semelha appreciates what the shoe has helped us accomplish. Shoes have been central to things like being an astronaut, living in the arctic and venturing across a hot desert. But i think the true function of footwear is more about establishing who you are, what your gender is, what your status is. And so it functions as a communicative social tool while at the same time, some shoes make it comfortable to walk round in.