The Cambridge team applied a similar osteological analysis to its own sampling of remains, since there is evidence that the medieval inhabitants of Cambridge also favored poulaine-tipped shoes by ...

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 ...

Writing in the International Journal of Paleopathology, the team reports that the rise of elongated shoes in late medieval Cambridge led to a sharp increase in hallux valgus of the big toe ...

In a new study, medieval researchers found that bunions were as familiar an issue then as they are today, particularly for those who partake in fashionably slim and pointed toe shoes, such as ...

Among these new fashion trends were “poulaines” – rather eccentric-looking medieval shoes with a lengthy pointed tip. The adoption of this latest flavour of footwear was not without its risks.

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 ...

The digs revealed richer, urban men were more likely to wear the fashionable shoes - and suffer from bunions Fashion-conscious medieval men paid the price for their love of pointy-toed shoes with ...

The Ferragamo Shoe Museum is home to thousands of groundbreaking creations by founder Salvatore Ferragamo, housed inside Palazzo Spini Feroni, a 13th century medieval palace. Credited for ...

Minimalist shoes (i.e. those offered by most other manufacturers ... Considering chainmail can protect from meat-slicing butcher's blades and medieval swords, it can presumably offer plenty ...

His shoes, though, really piqued my interest ... the fact that the Middle English looks like it could be the Boston's funky medieval progenitor only adds to its appeal. (To wit: A few weeks ...

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 ...