• msprout@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Believe it or not, that’s what dutch clogs (sabots, the teardrop-shaped wooden shoes) were for. They were around as early as the 1500s.

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      10 days ago

      True! It was pretty much the go-to safety shoes during the industrial revolution, and the agrarian safety shoe long before that. (Gotta spend those long winter nights doing something when you can’t plow the fields)