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Shoe Design By Kobi Levy
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Footwear consists garments worn on the feet, for fashion, protection against the environment, and adornment. Poor people in impoverished or third world groups ten do not wear footwear. Religious requirements may prohibit footwear (for example, some temples).
Socks and other hosiery are usually worn between the feet and other footwear, less ten with sandals and flip flops (thongs). Footwear is sometimes associated with fetishism, particularly in some fashions in shoes, including boots.
People who practice the pression shoemaking are shoemakers, cobblers or cordwainers.
The oldest confirmed footwear was discovered in Fort Rock Cave in the U.S. state Oregon; radiocarbon dating these sandals woven from sagebrush bark indicates an age least 10,000 years. However footprints what looks like ancient sandals have been carbon dated to around the time 500,000 B.C.
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