Some of these are very familiar, ancient, or pertain to certain countries, but they are all interesting.
1. Bast shoes are shoes made from bast—fiber in ancient times.
4. Made popular by the Beatles, but other famous people wore or wear them including Kanye.
5. Bovver" refers to troublemaking behavior, particularly by British youth gangs or skinheads in the late 1960s.
6. Used by the Scots and the Irish as work boots to wear in the wet, boggy Scottish and Irish countryside hundreds of years ago.
8. The buskin was also worn by hunters, and soldiers in Ancient Greek, Etruscan, and Romans.
11. Caulk boots are a form of rugged spike-soled footwear that are most often associated with the timber industry.
13. Platform to protect shoes in the middle ages.
15. worn in ancient Rome.
