European shoes and boots: Russian boot 1, Russian woman's sandal 2, Finnish woman's sandal 3, Finnish woman's slipper 4, Finnish bejeweled shoes 5,6, Hungarian man's boot 7, Tartarian woman's snoe-shoes 8, Persian woman's slippers 9,10, Chinese woman's shoe 11, Turkish woman's chopine 12, Greek island woman's boot 13, Naxos woman's boot 14, Venetian backless shoe 15, and Irish peasant's brogue 16. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from J. Sparkes Hall's Book of the Feet, HIstory of Boots and Shoes, New York, 1847.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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