What kind of shoes did men and women wear in the Middle Ages?
In the 15th century, shoe styles changed radically. Both men and women wore low-cut, square-toed slippers. The toes, rolled back and often slashed to reveal a colored lining, became enormously wide and eventually had to be limited by law. Also popular were mules, sometimes attached to high platforms (chopines) so as to raise feet and skirts above the mud.
