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SHOES!
Gail Skroback Hennessey
The oldest shoes ever found are thought to be about 8000 years old.
IN THE NEWS:(2025)
A soldier’s shoe being discovered may not seem newsworthy until you learn it belonged to a Roman soldier who wore it more than 2000 years ago! Found in Northumberland, Great Britain, the letter shoe was pretty much intact. It is also a really BIG shoe, suggesting the wearer was a big man. The shoe is about a size 11.5. (The average man’s shoe size is about 10.5).Found at the Magna Roman Fort, other artifacts unearthed including children’s shoes and pottery.
Learn more: https://www.vindolanda.com/news/magna-shoes
Photograph from Vindolanda Charitable Trust
Did You Know?
1. Men wore the first heeled shoes. It was helpful to have a heel to keep feet in the stirrups when riding a horse.
2. The ruby red slippers that Dorothy wore in the movie, The Wizard of Oz sold for $660,000( in 2000 )making them the most expensive pair of shoes!
3. The length of the tip of a shoe showed your rank in Middle Ages. Some people wore tips so long they needed to tie a chain from the tip to the knees to walk. Depending on your social class, some had 24 inch long tips!
4. Chopines were elevated shoes worn during the 14th century.To walk and not fall, wealthy women walked with attendants. Some chopines had wooden platforms 30 inches high!
5. Kabkabs(for the sound created walking on marble floors) were worn by wealthy women in the Middle East. For special occasions, some were 2 ft. high!
6. The largest collection of sneakers according to Guinness World Records, is Jordy Geller, Nevada, USA, who has 2388 sports shoes!(2012)
7. People in the Middle East added heels to their shoes to keep down the heat of the sand.
8.King Louis X1V passed a rule that only members of his court could wear red heels!
9.In Japan, you must remove your shoes before entering a building and put on slippers. In Thailand, it is considered very rude to point your shoes at someone.
10. Most people have worn flip flops. The name comes from the sound made as you walk in them in them. The ancient Egyptians are believed to have been the first to wear “flip flops”!
11. The earliest shoes did not have a right or left shoe. Shoelaces came about in 1790.
12. President Obama was the first President to be photographed wearing flip flops!
13. Sneakers got their name because they were quiet and you could “sneak” up on someone!
14. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon. He did this in 1969. His boots were left on the moon!
ACTIVITIES:
1. http://imaginationsoup.net/2011/03/pile-of-shoe- picture-books/ Discuss summary writing and have students write a summary of one of the stories about shoes. Here is also a link to Hans Christian Andersen’s The Red Shoes.https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/RedSho.shtml
2. Draw a flipflop or a sneaker. Write a day in the life of a flip flop or sneaker. Tell about your day. What did you see? What did you feel? What happened to you? Etc. Include 3 facts learned about the history of shoes.
3. Show students some shoes throughout history. Have students draw a picture of a shoe and write 3 facts learned from the web quest about shoes. http://all-that-is-interesting.com/fascinating-history-footwear
LEARN ABOUT THE HISTORY OF SHOES: https:// www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Shoes-A-Webquest-Everything- has-a-History-1773342
NOTES: Free images from :Pixabay, Creazilla, Freeimages
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