Show from sandals sandal to shoes tho the first foot coverings were vand sand als after these came shoes left open at the toes then the wooden shoes of the ninth and tenth centuries fol lowed a little later by shoes with long pointed and turned up toes which sometimes sonic times reached as high as the knee inee later a shoo shoe was worn with an in exceedingly wide too toe so BO very thai wide that I 1 I 1 it t impeded the process of J ark ax ted ive va wearing ot of inia by proclamations the proclamation ran to the effect that tha t shoes should not be worn wider than six elx inches |