The 1950's witnessed another increase in the amount of leisure time available to families.
The 1950's witnessed another increase in the amount of leisure time available to families.
The Victorian Era, the time during the reign of English Queen Victoria, could be called a time of ridiculously proper manners. The social and moral values as well as fashion were influence by Queen Victoria. These values included devotion to family life, public and private responsibility, and obedience to the law.
By the late middle ages and the Tudor period (1450-1600), shoe designs had been standardized. Pattens or clogs became common as an overshoe for protection from water or mud.
Shoes have always held a special status for humans. Whether as symbols of wealth and status or as simple protection from jagged rocks, freezing snow, or other rugged terrain, the history of modern human development goes hand in hand - or would that be foot in shoe - with the history of shoes.