History

The ancient Egyptians used a type of shoe sandals made of papyrus or palm bark.
The Greeks used to fit the high buskins, reaching to the calf and were later adapted by the Romans. A particular variant of this footwear was used in the theater, with very thick soles made of cork, which enhanced the stature of tragic actors. Being associated with a prestigious literary genre, has given rise to lexicalized phrase "high buskin ', which can be applied to persons or things and means, according to Maria Moliner," high class "[citation needed].
Pythagoras made his disciples to wear a shoe like that of the Egyptians and to which was the name of baxea. In the bas-reliefs of Persepolis Persians are represented with a sort of sandals and other Greek monuments, the barbarians are with shoes that the Romans called Aluta luxior. In the heroic times, the Greeks only wore shoes when they went to the field: the man was a kind of leather boots and women's sandals that was used to decorate with plates of ivory, silver, gold and gemstones times more advanced than heroicos.1
Lycurgus only allowed to wear shoes in the war, in hunting and when traveling at night. The Spartans used a flat shoe that wrap around the foot made of red leather. The of maidens was very high, and the midwives of an average height. The Athenians came to know different kinds of shoes and boots like a leather shoes negro.1


The Romans did not wear shoes at first but then was introduced to fashion and read Cicero which once used dissolute youth called sicyonium shoes. They met different kinds of shoes namely the calceus, the muleus, the phaecasium, whole shoe made of leather called Aluta, the solea, the caliga, the crépida, the baxea, the sandalium, the soles were simple coturno tied over foot belts or straps. They were of different colors but usually black. The emperors and the winners wore red. At home, the Romans used the slipper that served solea. The shoes used to be white women. Senators wore black boots wearing stockings on a kind of ankle buckle, call or tintilla moon which was shaped like a C to indicate that initially the patrician senators were mere percent. The ancients used to leave the shoes to eat in order not to get the cushions on which reclined and slaves descalzar makers and fit to the lords were called sandaligeruli.1

The shoe since the man knew how to prepare the leather was usually made of this subject undergoing changes in their ways sometimes very strange, as there have been times when they wore boots with pointed toes bent and lifted very high. There are still countries that use special footwear such as clogs and espadrilles our cáñamo.1