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The only clothing category where ugly often outsells beautiful.
means Anything you put on your feet to protect or cover them — shoes, boots, sandals, slippers, the whole category.
from A straightforward 19th-century compound: 'foot' plus 'wear' (the act or items of wearing clothing), on the same pattern as 'headwear,' 'legwear,' and 'neckwear.' No hidden story here — it's a clean, functional label that trade catalogs and shoe merchants popularized as a tidy umbrella term for shoes, boots, and sandals alike.
- oldest find
- Sandals from roughly 10,000 years ago, found in Oregon caves
- global market
- Shoe industry worth over 400 billion dollars yearly
- one standard
- No universal sizing system exists across countries
- odd origin
- High heels were first worn by Persian horseback soldiers