Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1918 — Shoes Worn in Early Days. [ARTICLE]

Shoes Worn in Early Days.

High-heeled boots were worn by ladies for three parts of the eighteenth century. They raised their fair wearers some Inches, rendering walking difficult and running impossible. But these fashions were confined to the rich. The poor wore shoes of wood, reeds and untanned leather. The Highlander made brogans out of untanned deer hide, and the southern nations wore cloth sandals and slippers. It was not until the year 1800 that an Englishman Invented “rights and leftspreviously both shoes were shaped exactly alike. So far as we can discover, the aboriginal tribes of America never went barefooted. They always made and wore moccasins, the easiest shoe ever invented.