10 interesting facts about shoes

1. Shoes were made over 4000 years ago
2. In 16th and 17th century Europe, heels on shoes were always colored red.
3. Heels were invented in the Middle East to help lift the foot from the burning sand.
4. Sneakers were originally called keds.
5. Before the 19th century, there wasn’t a left or right shoe. Both sides were identical.
6. The first lady’s boot was designed for Queen Victoria in 1840.
   
7. In Hungary the groom drinks a toast to his bride out of her wedding slipper.
8. In Biblical times a sandal was given as a sign of an oath.
9. In the Middle Ages a father passed his authority over his daughter to her husband in a shoe ceremony. At the wedding, the groom handed the bride a shoe, which she put on to show she was then his subject.
10. In 1927, X-rays were used to help people find a fitting shoe. It was known as the Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope but was later destroyed due to health hazards.