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Shoes: How French Royalty Became the Fashion Police

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The History of Shoes

Clogs were made from a square block of wood that was carved and smoothed into shape you could fit your foot into. Cowboy boots have a lot of shoe ancestors, like the boots worn by spanish vaqueros,. or wellingtons, which was a style of boot popular with wealthy british aristocrats in the early 18 hundreds.

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