Prehistoric:
The Iceman Cometh

WHAT’S GOING ON?
Not a whole hell of a lot, I’ll tell you.  There were glaciers.  And ice caps.  And more glaciers and more ice caps. It was damn cold, that’s what. So man migrated in search of the southern sun and it was suddenly necessary to wear something so he didn’t freeze to death.  He learned to trap animals for food.  He learned to hide away in caves to keep warm.  He invented tools and learned how to sharpen stones into axes and hammers.  Meanwhile, thousands of years go by…
FASHION:
Simple fashions were preferred during the prehistoric era.  Breechcloth made of leather or woven grass tied with a sash.  Furs and feather capes for the winter months. Women wore skirts of deerskin or mulberry cloth, animal hide mantles and capes.
No one knows when the first shoes were worn for there are no records of such things so we can only make assumptions based on relics and primitive cave paintings.  For sure, the development of some sort of covering was one of the first things primitive man did considering all of that outdoor activity such as hunting which required traipsing over jagged rocks and burning sand.  Never mind the winter.  So the first shoes were developed quite early and they were most likely bag-like wrappings made of fur or skins.  Cave Paintings (c.8000 BCE) show these foot bags and some even show images of shoes that look like fur boots.

The earliest European shoes discovered were that of the Ice Man found in the Alps which date all the way back to 3300 BCE and were made of rawhide bearskin and woven plant fibers.

• About
• History
• Famous Brands Shoes
• Jokes