Much historical footwear looks like torture – and extreme and unstable designs are still being made. Why can’t we all just be comfortable?“In a world governed by ideal economic conditions there will be no sensible shoes,” 1920s shoe designer André Perugia once said. We’re all wearing comfy, sexless trainers now, so draw your own conclusions. Thankfully, history has plenty of silly footwear at hand to amuse us, while we wonder where all our money went.Paleoanthropologists can tell when we... Read this story
