Gents and Ladies Footwear

Ladies always need well-designed and matching shoes for almost all occasions such as they need shoes to wear while going office, another pair of shoes is required while going market, elegant and modish dress shoes for different occasions. Shoes are important in order to give unique and stylish look to the outfit

For the wealthy, it became common for the shoe and pattern to be made of the same fabric. The pattern had been a fashionable piece of footwear in the previous century, but in this century was worn only as a necessity.

The chopine, another piece of footwear with a raised sole was introduced to Europe in this period. The chopine was worn especially among the courtesans of Venice, and the fashion quickly spread to the rest of Europe, being especially popular in Italy and Spain. These overshoes were on a raised platform, and like the Patten, were worn over a slipper shoe, giving height to the wearer. They were made of wood with painted and gilded motifs. Some were encrusted with mother of pearl and other stones, or covered in leather or velvet.

The chopines became so high, up to thirty inches, that when a woman went out, she needed a maidservant to help keep her upright. The Church, which usually abhorred the extremes of fashion, approved the chopines. The height impeded movement, particularly dancing, reducing the opportunities for sin. The chopines caused their own set of unique problems. The extra height the shoes added to the wearer led to complications after marriage when the bridegroom discovered he had married a very short bride. In England, the marriage bond could be annulled if the bride had falsified her height with the chopines. In Venice, the chopine was eventually outlawed after a number of women in Venice miscarried after falling from the chopines during their pregnancies.

This is very true that you should know the art of wearing and whatever the style you wear will become the part of fashion.

 

Man died because his long pointed shoes impeded him from escaping his assassins. Whether the story has any truth, it is safe to assume that the exaggerated toes of the Pauline became clumsy and inconvenient for most tasks, and would eventually give way to a more reasonable style.

 








At the beginning of this period, the slipper shoes of the late Gothic period reappeared without the exaggerated toes. These shoes resembled modern ballet slippers in many respects. It would not take long before the toes of these shoes became wider and square. The shoes, which are said to have developed because Charles VIII had six toes on one foot, were called “duck-billed” because of their width at the toe.