Shoes have a very long story that begins in the year 8000 BC. Over the millenniums, the shoes were made by all sorts of materials and had a lot of types of models.
1. Okobo – Japan, the eighteenth century – until now
Long before 1970, when platform shoes came, in the eighteenth century Japanese geisha and their apprentices wearied shoes with platform of 14 cm. The reasons were not only aesthetic but also practical because in this way the beautiful geisha were not got dirty their kimonos. Okobo is actually an onomatopoeia that means the sound that the shoes get out.
2. Heeled shoes for men – Europe, 1700
Shoes and socks for men became very important in 1700, and then entered the fashion of shorts and the accent moved on the lower part of the body. Louis the 14th began with this at the French court where men display their shoes with heels, buckles, rosettes and ribbons.
3. Kabkab – Lebanon centuries 14th -17th
A kind of stilts made of wood caught in a web of silver metal was practical solution for women in the Middle East to protect the dirt streets. Kabkab name is like Japanese shoes and derived from the sound that these stilt it out when they went on marble floors.
In the end, we let you to decide which ones you want to wear.
