Curious Lifestyle Eleven Little Known Facts about Your Shoes What do you really know about your Shoes? Do you know that the first shoes were created about 40,000 years ago? Records of the Egyptians, the Chinese and other early civilizations all contain references to shoes, which proves the importance of protecting the foot was early recognized. But what are the other 11 most interesting facts about the shoes we wear? 11 Curious Facts about the Shoes 1. The first images of footwear The first known images of footwear are boots depicted in 15,000-year-old Spanish cave paintings. 2. Left and Right Shoes Shoes all over the world were identical until the nineteenth century when left- and right-footed shoes were first made in Philadelphia. Slippers were initially made “rights” and “lefts.” 3. Wooden Shoes In the ninth and tenth centuries, the greatest princes of Europe wore wooden shoes, and it wasn’t until the eighteenth century that women’s shoes were different from men’s. 4. The heels The heels Written by Unbranded 22 March 20247 October 2024
