Show from sandals to shoes the first toot coverings were sand als alter 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 reached as high aa the knee later a shoe was worn with an exceedingly wide toe so very wide that it impeded the process of walking queen mary restricted the wearing ol 01 this by proclamations the proclamation ran to the effect that shoes should not be worn wider than biz inches |