Shoe
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A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot while doing various activities. Shoes are also used as an item of decoration. The design of shoes has varied enormously through time and from culture to culture, with appearance originally being tied to function. Additionally fashion has often dictated many design elements, such as whether shoes have very high heels or flat ones.
The foot contains more bones than any other single part of the body. Though it has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years in relation to vastly varied terrain and climate conditions, the foot is still vulnerable to environmental hazards such as sharp rocks and hot ground, against which shoes can protect.
Shoes in literature
Shoes play an important role on the fairy tales Cinderella and The Red Shoes. In literature and film, an empty shoe or a pair of shoes signifies death.
See also
- Shoe of a dead woman
- Shoe fetishism
- A Pair of Shoes, a painting by Vincent van Gogh painted in June 1895
