[Regia-NA] Re: Yorvik Shoes OT but

[anulf at telusplanet.net]

Oi!

Interesting about the shoes fastening on the inside.  

Perhaps OT but relating to footware;  cavalry spurs normally buckle on the 
outside of the foot.  OTOH, cowboy spurs, you know the buckaroo type with the 
big rowel and wide strap, fasten on the inside.  I thought this odd until it 
was pointed out that a cowboy, rolling out of his bedroll would be sitting on 
the ground.  It is much easier to buckle up your spurs on the inside, the side 
facing you than trying to twist your foot around where you still can only 
reach the buckle confortably with one hand.

I've read here about pants being designed for squating or sitting on the 
floor.  Purhaps shoes too were made with that thought in mind.

The other thought is that the shoes being found are "Aunt Martha's" or "Damned 
Things".  You know, nobody liked them because the fastener was on the inside, 
totally impractable, so the shoe went to the bottom of the trunk where it was 
found intact a thousand years later.  The Arckie say, "this must be the way 
shoes were made!"  But in fact they are the rejects, the "Aunt Martha"s" etc.

Just a thought!!

Anulf