Beauty is — and always was — pain. To the chagrin of fashionistas everywhere, some of history’s most hard-worn styles — think “waist-training” corsets and high heels — have stood the test of time. And ...

They were the Jimmy Choos of their day. Known as poulaines, pointy leather shoes were the height of fashion in 14th century Britain. Medieval men and women about town, however, suffered for their ...

Cambridge academics studying medieval skeletons across the city’s cemeteries found bunions and injuries caused by pointy shoes Craig Simpson is Arts Correspondent for The Telegraph covering the major ...

A LOVE of pointy shoes in Medieval Britain left one in four of the population with bunions on their feet. That’s according to a new study which used skeletons to show how a fashion trend for pointy ...

Suffering for fashion is nothing new. Researchers in Britain have unearthed new evidence that stylish pointed shoes caused a "plague" of bunions in the late medieval period. Investigators from the ...

A 15th-century shoe craze that swept Europe left its mark on the skeletons of people who lived at the time. Archaeologists have recently attributed a plague of bunions found on nearly 200 skeletons to ...

The 14th century saw the arrival of an abundance of new styles of dress and footwear in Europe, coming in a wide range of fabrics and colours. Among these new fashion trends were “poulaines” – rather ...

Have you always wanted a pair of comfortable, homemade shoes, but could never quite afford a pair of American Indian moccasins? The Ithaca chapter Myrkfaelinn, of the Society for Creative Anachronism ...

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At times, the barefoot shoe movement has played out like an all-out unleashing of designers' unbridled creativity. We've seen foam feet, ruggedized socks, foot condoms, half shoes and every other type ...