SBTS #8 Satan's Claws

In this Story by the Slice Emily serves up some old-fashioned sole food. Yup. S-O-L-E. She dishes on the history of a rather unusual fashion that was extremely popular for nearly 300 years, the poulaine, aka the crackow. These shoes had unbelievably long toes that caused the wearers all kinds of problems not only through impairment of physical mobility. Why would anyone want to wear these and how could they have been such a big fashion statement for so long?
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Ingredients sourced from:
https://exhibits.law.harvard.edu/privy-members-and-buttocks
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-europeans-pointy-shoes
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/lgbt-london-stories-pointy-shoes-and-sodomy
http://sumptuarylaw.blogspot.com/2010/07/sumptuary-laws-of-fifteenth-century.html
https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/poulaine/

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