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2. Chopine - Wikipedia

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   Reconstruction of a 16th-century Venetian chopine. On display at the Shoe Museum in Lausanne. Calcagnetti (Chopine)- Correr Museum. A chopine is a type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Chopines were originally used as a patten, clog, or overshoe to protect shoes and dresses from mud and street soil.

3. Court shoe - Wikipedia

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   A court shoe (British English) or pump (American English) is a shoe with a low-cut front, or vamp, with either a shoe buckle or a black bow as ostensible fastening. Deriving from the 17th- and 18th-century dress shoes with shoe buckles, the vamped pump shape emerged in the late 18th century.

4. A Trainer Says These Shoes Will Help You Stop Rolling Your Ankles

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   Gum High-Top. Trying to deadlift 150 pounds in a pair of ancient shoes isn't going to do your ankles any good. The lace-up ankle design gives you a secure fit, while the low-heel drop plants feet ...

5. The best shoes for arthritic feet in 2024, according to ... - AOL

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   Cost: $165 | Sizing: Women's 5–12 / men's 7–16 | Colors: 16 options | Weight: 8.9 ounces | Additional features for arthritic feet: OrthoLite sockliner, APMA seal of acceptance The Hoka Bondi 8 ...

6. Platform shoe - Wikipedia

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   A maid wearing circle-type pattens: Piety in Pattens or Timbertoe on Tiptoe, England 1773 After their use in Ancient Greece for raising the height of important characters in the Greek theatre and their similar use by high-born prostitutes or courtesans in London in the sixteenth century, platform shoes, called pattens, are thought to have been worn in Europe in the eighteenth century to avoid ...

7. Earth shoe - Wikipedia

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   The Earth Shoe (also known as the Kalsø Earth Shoe) was an unconventional style of shoe invented circa 1957 by Danish yoga instructor and shoe designer Anna Kalsø. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its unique "negative heel technology" [ citation needed ] design featured a sole that was thinner at the heel than at the forefoot, so that when wearing them, one ...