Kippen C (2021) The history of poulaines (long toed shoes) foot talk blog Kippen C (2018) The body politic foot talk blog ![]() Kippen C (2021) Shoes and sex in the Middle Ages foot talk blog Kippen C (2020) Poulaines: Peaks and troughs foot talk blog Kippen C (2021) Pointed toed shoes Are they a sign? foot talk blog Kippen C (2020) In days of old: Shoe Zeitgeist foot talk blog Many women were persecuted as witches because they wore unusual attire, cross-dressing in the manner of wearing men's shoes or poulaines was enough to convince the fearful of guilt. In the fifteenth century women started to wear poulaines but the fashion was short lived. The winklepicker did eventually return in fashion but not before the introduction of the heel. ![]() And while a prince might wear shoes as long as he liked, pikes could not be more than six inches long for a plain commoner, twelve inches for a landowner (bourgeois), Knights, one and a half feet and twenty four inches for a baron, and princes could wear them as long as they liked. Between 13, during the reign of Edward III (1312-1377), pointed toes were prohibited to all who did not have an income of at least forty pounds a year. Yet still the style prevailed until the length of shoes was later legislated for but not because of faith or breach of faith, instead because it was as a function of social status. ![]() Many of the clergy were at a loss to explain the Black Plague (1347) and so blamed the poulaine as God's revenge for wearing them. In any event the shoes were branded as Satan's Curse (or Satan's Claw) and university professors were banned from wearing them in the thirteenth century. In defence of the shoes, it may have been the way men wore their hose tightly laced to their doublets that prevented them from kneeling.
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