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With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes...

2025-01-20 21:08:28.119069+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

BBC: The pointy-shoed corruption of medieval London

According to the London Museum, young men would "stand on street corners wiggling their shoes suggestively" at people walking by.

If that shoe-wiggler had bells sewn to the ends of the points, it indicated that the wearer was available for sexual frolics.

And now shoes with a reasonable toe box are completely unfashionable, when you can get them.

Via MeFi.

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