Monday 22 July 2013

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I am now, cautiously, beginning to use my own computer and may be reached by email. However, I have not advanced to having a printer so please send orders by post. Also please read the information on the Order Form and Price List - links at the bottom of this page - as that should answer most, if not all, of your questions. Measuring information is on the Order Form.
Orders must be sent to me by post, on my standard order form. Using the order form ensures that I have all the necessary information to complete your order and avoids confusion. When I receive it I will inform you of the delivery date. My memory is not so good as to cope with “as discussed” so please write down just what you want on the form. I will bill you only when the shoes are complete.
Shoes. We all have some. We rarely think about them. But shoes are political. Charities buy poor kids shoes in every city. The type of shoes you have, and how many, are a sign of social status. (Remember Marcos' 1500 pairs of shoes?!) Women have endured foot binding and high heels. Some people wear wooden shoes, some wear sandals, some wear fur and skin boots. There are clown shoes, snow shoes, tap dancing shoes, Earth Shoes, and there are also shoe museums all over the world, including Seattle. Shoes have changed over the years due to new materials, such as rubber, becoming available, and due to design changes, such as the left and right shoes having different patterns. Studies of one Ice Age mummy suggested he did not travel further than 40 miles from home, and his shoes reflected that, both in utility and materials used. Even the ways we attach our shoes are changing. Learning how to tie shoelaces has been superceded by velcro shoe closures for younger kids.
It is assumed that shoes were one of the first things humans made, to protect their feet from hot sand, sharp rocks, etc. while they traveled looking for food. And there are cultures that are still wearing sandal designs very similar to those worn by their ancient ancestors. Ancient Egyptian sandals had class distinctions. A commoner's sandal was plain, but nobility's sandals had a long curved horn protruding from the toe, much as we see characterizing "elf" shoes today. Sandals are still the predominant shoe worn in most warm climates. The oldest pair of shoes we have uncovered on Earth so far are a 10,000 year old pair of sandals, made out of sagebrush, housed at the University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History. As a kid growing up in Southern California, I rarely wore shoes and if I did, they were sandals. When I was about 6 years old, I became friends with a girl who had just come from Hawaii. She said kids did not have to wear shoes to school in Hawaii (this was the early 1960's). I was in awe of that concept. And beyond optional shoes, in East India, in the 16th century, only the elite were allowed to wear shoes.
As always, laws tell us a lot about the evolution of shoes and cultural attachments to them over time. Around the 3rd century A.D., common Roman women were banned from adoring their footwear with gold or jewels. The Middle Ages were heavy on footwear and clothing regulations, the function of which was to enforce class distinctions. In the 14th century, Edward III made laws about which fabrics different sectors of society could wear. By the 15th century, laws and mores about shoe styles and lengths were implemented in England. If you were a commoner, your shoes could extend no more than 2 inches past your toes. If you were a merchant, your shoes could not be longer than 6 1/2 inches past your toes. If you were a gentleman, your shoes could extend 12 inches past your toes, and if you were a nobleman, your shoes were allowed to extend 24 inches past your toes! Talk about absolutely useless shoes! The extended toes on these shoes were pointed, and we will later see this pointy toed shoe reappear in American 20th century fashion.
That uselessness of shoes with 24 inch pointed tips reminds me of the white shoes that were so common in the 1960-70's, and can still be seen on some old timers today. Jim Page, a Seattle busker, wrote a song back in the 1970's that summed this phenomenon up succinctly: "...Now some folks work real hard for their pay, some don't do nothin', but they get paid anyway, some people don't mind gettin' dirt on their hands, some folks run just as fast as they can, and they would just naturally choose, those pure white ultra bright sanitary shoes...you got your hair all plastered with Palm Palmade, you got underarm deodorant and aftershave, you got to watch real careful where you walk on the street, so as not to insult your elite feet, 'cause you surely would hate to lose those pure white ultra bright sanitary shoes...Now you can wear 'em high, you can wear 'em low, but they really look good on the patio, and if you really want to make that big advance, get a white belt, and maroon pants, then you know you've paid your dues, wearing pure white ultra bright sanitary shoes...Now you can't take out the garbage or sweep the floor, you can hardly go to the grocery store, you can't pump gas or fix a flat, you can't do anything dressed like that, but that's the whole idea behind the ruse, of wearing pure white ultra bright sanitary shoes. Now I been down on the bottom, lookin' up at the street, some people you can tell just by lookin' at their feet. Some'll step on you last, some'll step on you first, but the white ones, they always get you the worst, and it gives you the underfoot blues, to get stepped on, by pure white ultra bright sanitary shoes."

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