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Collection of sites showing the history of footwear, shoe design, fashion for feet, and shoemaking.

  • All About Pointe  - Provides a history of pointe shoes and general and technical information.
  • All About Shoes  - The Bata Shoe Museum in Canada shares extensive online resources on the history of footwear including Innuit, Japanese, the elevated foot, and wedding traditions.
  • Cordwainers Shoe Collection  - A photographic record of the London college's shoe collection which includes lasts and tools.
  • Footwear History  - Covers the history of shoes from the Rennaissance to the late 20th century with information for each period on dress, men's, women's and materials.
  • Footwear Of The Middle Ages  - The history and development of footwear and shoemaking techniques up to the end of the sixteenth century. Includes a glossary, historical shoe types, and shoe designs.
  • Head Over Heels  - Provides history of shoes with gallery of photos according to year.
  • Shoe Icons  - Publishing company specialising in shoes and setting up a shoe museum in Moscow. Includes items from the collection such as shoe adverts, magazine articles, shoe cards and shoe buckles.
  • ShoeInfonet: Shoe History  - Illustrated article tracing the history of footwear.
  • Solemates : The Century in Shoes  - Graphical history of 20th century shoes by decade, with multimedia and timelines.
  • SONS: Shoes or No Shoes  - Shoe museum in Belgium displays their collections of ethnographic and designer footwear, contemporary art featuring shoes, cartoons and texts.
  • Vans 40 Year History Timeline  - Covers from 1966 to the present day tracing the history of the Van Doren Rubber Company and its shoes.
  • Venetian Chopines  - Project looking at the high platform shoes which were worn in Venice from 1400-1700. With essay, artifact analysis and methodology, and links.
  • Walk This Way  - Online tour of a Boston Museum of Fine Arts exhibition on shoes and their cultural significance.
 
 
 
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