THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1928
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PAGE THREE
The Long, Long Trail of Shoes Begins in Far Ancient Times and Continues to Modern Age
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If you were forced to choose some one article of wearing apparel to which you and all your generation were accustomed, and then do without it absolutely for one year—or, say, make it all yourself if you insisted upon having it—what article could you be do without? Of one thing you can be sure; and that is, shoes would not be one of the items
To no one other part of his daily outfit has him become so attached to you that he asks for comfort, and their protection have made man essentially a foot-shot
History shows that this has prac tically always been true.
Sandal Was Earliest Shoe
Shoes originated apparently in the birthplace of the race in far off eastern Asia. They have developed along with the human race, but they were not wargest, barefooted, while the early Egyptians considered it a matter of seldom that their priests should have naked feet. But soon as the Egyptians took the skins of animals, and made them into crude bags for their feet, and thus they were enabled to travel more comfortably over rough and thorny territory in search
The sandal was the earliest known form of "shoes" footwear. It consisted merely of sale and thongs made from leather, little toes, and later the uppers were added, and a gummie covering for the foot obtained. Webb, in *Heritage of Dress*, puts the emphasis on the method used in shaping these embryo models.
"The most primitive kind of shoe would doubleshade a piece of hide placed under the heel, and round the heels," say Mr. Wobb. "Then, 'been' continues, "at the place where the puckers follow the gathering of the hide round the ankle," says John. "Now doing away with the supernatural leather in front. This also left admirable outlets for water to escape when the hide is not glued." The strip of leather left were gathered together and laced about the nail with a thong. Another thong held together the back of the鞋, which was laced to fit the shape of the shoe.
Kings Wore Jewelled Shoes
Kings Wore Jewelled Shoes
Shoes became a thing common to
the king of Egypt, and the pre-
legendary kings of kings and the nobility.
A king of the Emt is reported to have
had shoes with "soles of cork covered
with gold" and "clays of cloth of
mold covered with pearls."
With the development of civilization in the West, and the introduction of the aristocracy of kings in the northern countries, the shoe came into its own as an accessory to the warm climates and adornment of the foot. Shoes no longer were more precautions against the hot sands of warm countries, but they still required tightly fitted them off and on at will. Shoes in the west became a real article of dress which, when assumed, were intended to be worn for everyday wear, should make more necessary.
One of the first developments of the shoe was the high boot, worn originally above the knee, and later turned down the heel. II and III were made of Henry II and Richard I boots were both long and short, and were variously colored. The tops were loose and flopped about as the wearer walked, or fell in folds about 24 inches wide.
Shoes Began to Have Toes
In the time of Richard II toes were beginning to be emphasized. These averaged about six inches in length.
Succeeding generations developed beadless ileus until the 17th century when they were ten feet long. They in the style of the raised trunk of an elephant.
The modern overhose had its origin in the early "pattacies" - iron ties under the shoes to keep them dry. The modern overhose, as with pattacies, too, were peeled, and attachedments to long golden chains run from them into holes in the marble. Clogs also were introduced to
lift the foot off the ground. These were made much like the modern cross-wise shoe of Japan.
About this time, too, the high heel had in its appearance. Some of the people who attended the rally were pointed, so that a pyramid, standing on its point, would well have held up.
After several generations of fashion had approved the long narrow tie, the mode covered swiftly to the sides. The sleeves were made a special proclamation made that for beauty's sake "no man should wear his shoes above all inches". The cutaway design was blunt that mimicked "alarms" pooted at the ends of the shoe.
house Decoration Makes Apparent.
Eventually came the desire for a formal house decoration of the present season's vogue in smart bows applied. Bows were used in proficiency to decorate an ark and, often the largest bow would have four smaller ones attached to its points. Gradually the bow turned to buckles. One pair of buckles is represented to have been fashio
Decorations are invaded upon shoes in all forms. Leather ornaments were used. Rosettes eventually displeased buckles, and when those were set exactly on the instern they were shaken off. The jewelry made up the shoes of Queen Elizabeth's time. Even the shoe strings were "spangled."
Dandies Wore Ruffled Boots
top boots, too, turned in the cycle
from being articles of necessity
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common to the soldier and workman, they were taken up as a fad by the mollybite. Boots were worn in colors red, blue, yellow and green. Especial attention was paid to their tops, and the young danglers of the little man made of covering the top of their boots.
So the cycle of time turns to the present, and the long, long trail of the shoe continues.
Coyote of West Is Given to Habit of Emigration
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Bobley, the farthest, not too-proud little wolf that furries in all Western tails, is driven to enlisture quite n much an the human pioneers who once left their cold camps to his houri investigations. According to a report of Joseph Dixon, of the University of California museum of vertebrate phylogeny, he has now pulled his range into western Alaska and in Alaska. At Wendor Lake, at the north base of the mountain, Mr. Dixon found the skull of a coyote he had shot during the previous winter.
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The "Better Home" of Lawrence is now completely decorated, under the direction of Miss Elizabeth Moguar, chairman of the committee in charge, and is now open for visitors every day and evening until Sunday, April 29.
"The idea has been to select furnishings that are durable and pleasing in color and in line. Everything that has been chosen is simple, comfortable and practical as well as artistic and decorative." - Miss Delpina
The house which has been furnished is the EI's home in the 1500 block on Massachusetts. It is a 5-roomed house, planned for a family with an annual income of approximately 20 per cent of the cost of the house has been estimated for the amount to be expended on the furnishings. The theoretical family for whom the house is decorated, composed of two adults and a child about 7 or 8 years old.
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