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 ...

Archaeologists in Norway’s capital have unearthed thousands of leather artifacts that offer a rare glimpse into Oslo's past – and the fashion of its medieval inhabitants. The findings were recently ...

While excavating near an old harbor in Oslo, archaeologists have uncovered thousands of pieces of preserved, waterlogged leather that are nearly 700 years old. The bags, purses, shoes and sword ...

At times, the barefoot shoe movement has played out like an all-out unleashing of designers' unbridled creativity. We've seen foam feet, ruggedized socks, foot condoms, half shoes and every other type ...

Bunions may mistakenly be considered a 'modern problem'. (Stock, Getty Images) Suffering for our fashion is apparently nothing new. While modern women may endure blisters while hobbling in stilettos, ...

Suffering for fashion is nothing new. Researchers in Britain have unearthed new evidence that stylish pointed shoes caused a "plague" of bunions in the late medieval period. Investigators from the ...

The 14th century saw the arrival of an abundance of new styles of dress and footwear in Europe, coming in a wide range of fabrics and colours. Among these new fashion trends were “poulaines” – rather ...

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 pointy ...