Description | Shoes |
Casual, comfortable footwear, typically made from soft fabrics, designed to be worn in the home. | |
Flat sandals, typically with a toe post, often cheaply manufactured and worn in warm weather. | |
Slip-on shoes made in both casual and professional styles. A type of this shoe popular in the 1950s and 60s had a coin inserted in a slit on the upper. | |
Mexican sandals, traditionally made with hand-woven braided leather straps, which gained popularity in the 1960s in the American hippie community. | |
Men's lace-up dress shoes, typically black or brown. Their early association with English college men gives them their name. | |
Originating in the Victorian era, ankle-high boots that became associated with the Swinging London movement in the 1960s. | |
Brand of shoe invented by a Danish yoga instructor in the 1970s, incorporating 'Negative Heel Technology.' | |
Athletic shoes with metal spikes designed to grip slippery surfaces, such as grassy fields. | |
Shoes with a low-cut front and no laces, buttons, or other fastenings. Women's versions typically have a 1' or higher heel. | |
Shoes with a visibly thick, chunky sole. They were a fad in the 1970s, but still popular in a variety of styles today. | |
Knee-high leather military boots, often associated with authoritarian regimes. | |
Shoes with a strap across the instep, commonly (but not exclusively) worn by small girls. | |
| Description | Shoes |
Boots, often worn in construction jobs, reinforced to protect the wearer from punctures, falling objects, and sometimes even chemical hazards. | |
Shoes with a long, slender heel -- the original Italian versions had heels no more than .2' in diameter -- that share a name with a long, slender blade. | |
Popularized by Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s, backless shoes with a closed toe. (The open-toed version is known as a 'slide.') | |
Soft shoe made of deerskin or other leather, common to indigenous tribes of North America. | |
Originally used in the Pyrenees, a now broadly popular casual style of shoe with a sole made of jute rope. | |
Lightweight dancing shoes, typically made from soft leather, canvas, or satin. | |
Type of rubber boot slipped over shoes to keep them from getting wet or damaged in inclement weather. | |
Shoes with a pattern cut into their rubber soles to provide grip on a wet deck. | |
Originally used by Scots and Irish to work in wet boggy land, their name originates from the Old Irish 'bróc'. | |
Type of riding boots originally designed for use with a Western saddle; common today as everyday footwear in the American South and West. | |
Shoes designed to make the wearer appear taller by means of a hidden lift in the insole. | |
Wooden shoes that are used in several styles of dance. | |
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