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Source(google.com.pk)I once had a conversation with a museum expert on historical clothing and shoes, and I complained how slippery the various historical styles of leather shoes were that I had tried, and how the soles (often with nails) hurt your feet if you practice vigorously in them for very long. I grumbled that their soles were extremely slick and all but unusable on modern surfaces. He shrugged and said he had no explanation, since surviving specimens were all but non-existent and, besides, he was no fencing practitioner...
Manufacturers of historical costume shoes, just as with replica swords today, typically don’t have the knowledge of what is necessary for vigorous martial arts practice. For some time they have had no concern for footwear to be worn as anything much more than costume accessory or theatrical ensemble. Reenactors and living-history crafts-people have for decades been concerned about accurate historical garb, but focused on what was worn at court or when traveling (i.e., formal shoes and riding boots). Combat shoes have never been much more than incidental dress items. Only recently some have turned their attention to the footwear within the historical fighting literature. While I myself have no knowledge of historical footwear construction, I can note that reenactors have no reputation as serious martial arts practitioners. Their opinions on footwear should therefore be suspect, given how much of a pass they have long given to the ubiquitous heavy boots worn by so many enthusiasts claiming authenticity.
Keep in mind, groups like the notorious Sca, well-known for abysmal footwork in their ahistorical combat sport, have long had a requirement in their fighting rules to wear steel-toed shoes (which actively discourages any need to stand or move correctly). This hardly induces agile stepping, let alone permits accurate interpretation of the motions contained within Renaissance source teachings. Meanwhile, the renn-fair groupies, who can hardly be considered to be serious about historical fighting skills, continue their love affair with Robin Hood pirate boots.
My perspective here is the result of experiences I have had since the 1980s getting my practice partners, and later, my students, to switch to lighter slimmer shoes. The difference in how you can move and what you can perform in a manner reflecting the source images quickly becomes self-evident. I have over the years seen and encountered countless practitioners that insisted on wearing heavy work boots or inflexible combat boots instead of accurate shoes as depicted in the sources. Many of these folk were themselves deeply into historical role-play and dressed in historical style shoes only when not fighting. Their excuses were numerous and nonsensical, especially given that the actual historical fighting men managed just fine to practice real skills for real world self-defense while wearing the footwear they did---and sometimes none at all.
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