HISTORY OF SHOES.
The most primitive shoe was probably a'sandal—a sole gouged out of the heavy skin of an animal, tied "to the foot with leather strings or thongs. This shoe was the outcome of necessity—it protected man's foot front the rough stones of the wav lie would travel.
The moccasin is also a primitive sort of foot covering—a piece of skin shaped to the foot by means of leather thongs, originally quite rough and unfinished as compared with the well-fitted and carefully made moccasins of the American Indians as we know them.
Tho wooden shoe worn by many European peasants is, of course, not an early type of shoe, nor is the brogue, the foot covering Of Ireland and England many centuries ago—a loose, simple leather shoe, with nay stuffed in to fill the chinks between the shoe and the foot.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19349, 9 June 1926, Page 9
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