DESCRIPTION ON FOOTWEAR

INTRODUCTION 

FOOTWEAR REFERS TO GARMENT WORN ON FEET, WHICH TYPICALLY SERVES PURPOSE OF PROTECTION AGAINST ADVERSITIES  OF   ENVIRONMENT SUCH AS GROUND TEXTURE  AND TEMPERATURE.SHOES PRIMARILY TO SAVE FROM LEG INJURY  .FOOTWEAR CAN ALSO USED FOR FASHION AND ADORNMENT TO INDICATE STATUS OR RANK OF PERSON WITHIN SOCIETY . EVEN SOCKS AND HOSIERY ARE TYPICALLY WORN ADDITIONALLY BETWEEN FEET AND SHOE FOR FURTHER COMFORT AND RELIEF. IN SOME CULTURE PEOPLE REMOVE THEIR SHOES BEFORE ENTERING HOUSE. BARE FOOT ARE ALSO SEEN AS SIGN OF HUMANITY  AND RESPECT AND ADHERENTS OF MANY WORSHIP OR MOURN   RELIGION. SOME RELIGION COMMUNITY  EXPLICITLY REQUIRE PEOPLE TO REMOVE SHOE BEFORE THEY ENTER HOLY BUILDING SUCH AS TEMPLE.

IN SOME CULTURE PEOPLE REMOVE THEIR SHOE AS SIGN OF RESPECT TOWARD SOMEONE HIGHER STANDING. IN SIMILAR CONTEXT DELIBERATELY FORCING OTHER PEOPLE  TO GO BARE FOOT WHILE BEING STOD ONESELF  HAS SEEN CLEARLY SHOWCASE AND CONVEY ONE'S SUPERIORITY WITHIN SETTING OF POWER DISPARITY.

PRACTITIONERS   OF THESE CRAFT OF SHOE MAKING ARE CALLED AS SHOEMAKER, COBBLER. 

HISTORY

IF YOU THINK THAT DISCOVERY OF HIGH HEEL  FOOTWEAR WAS IN 2OTH CENTURY SO YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY WRONG, RECENTLY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA GOT SOME EVIDENCE, 45KM AWAY FROM KOLKATA  AT CHANDRAKETU GARH  THOSE EVIDENCE PROVES THAT THAT OUR ANCESTORS FROM VERY EARLY FROM 200 BC USE TO CARRY HIGH HEEL AND USE OF FLORAL DESIGN FOOTWEAR WAS THERE.

SO LETS MOVES TO COLLECT SOME MORE INTERESTING FACTS AND INFORMATION ABOUT FOOTWEAR, WEATHER IT IS CHINESE LOTUS SHOES, JAPANESE OKOBOS, ROMAN GLADIATORS OR INDIAN MOJARIS DEMAND OF WEARING FOOTWEAR'S WERE IN DEMAND FROM VERY EARLIER TIME, IN ALL OVER THE WORLD THE WAY OUR CARRYING CLOTHS WERE SYMBOL OF OUR TRADITION AND REPRESENTATION OF CULTURE BELIEVES AND VALUES ,SHOWS THE SHADOW OF OUR CIVILIZATION AND SOCIETY  FROM WERE WE BELONG, SAME WAY OUR FOOTWEAR IS ALSO A IMPORTANT PART OUR CUSTOMS. 

FOOT BINDING WAS THE CHINESE CUSTOMS OF BREAKING AND TIGHTLY BINDING THE FEET OF YOUNG GIRL IN ODER TO CHANGE THE SHAPE AND SIZE OF THEIR FEET,DURING THE TIME IT WAS PRACTICED.BOUND FEET WERE CONSIDERED A STATUS SYMBOL AND A MARK OF BEAUTY FEET ALTERED BY FOOT BINDING WERE KNOWN AS LOTUS FEET, AND THE SHOES MADE FOR THESE FEET WERE KNOWN AS LOTUS SHOES.

VEDIC ERA   (800BCE- 1500BCE) IN INDIA WEARING FOOTWEAR STARTED FROM VEDIC PERIOD,

KUSHAN ERA(130BC-185AD) GUPTA ERA (320AD-550AD) WE CAN SEE THROUGH EVIDENCE IN PAINTINGS AND COINS OF GUPTA PERIOD SYMBOL OF FOOTWEAR WERE USED, IN ANCIENT PERIOD FOOTWEAR WERE MOSTLY MADE OF WOODEN OR TREE BARK OR METAL  WERE USED. THOSE PERIOD THESE FOOTWEAR WERE CALLED AS UPNAH OR PADUKA, WERE UPNAH WERE WORE BY TRADERS AND BUSINESSMAN OF THAT ERA  WERE THE PADUKA  WAS WORE BY DHARAM GURU OR SPIRITUAL TEACHERS, THE SAINTS AND SAGES OF ANCIENT INDIA WERE WORE WOODEN SLIPPERS AS 'KHADAU' OR PADUKAS. BECAUSE IT BELIEVE THEY KNEW THE CONCEPT OF ELECTRIC CURRENT IN BODY &EARTH GRAVITY WHICH ABSORBED ALL CONSTANTLY FLOWING WAVES.THIS REDUCE OUR BIOLOGICAL POTENCY AND AS WOOD IS BAD CONDUCTOR OF ELECTRICITY HENCE THE SAGES CHOSE IT TO FASHION THEIR KHADAU AND PADUKAS. THE PADUKAS ALSO PROVIDE AMPLE PRESSURE ON SUBTLE ACUPRESSURE     POINTS ON THE FEET, WHICH HELP IN REGULATING BLOOD PRESSURE, MUSLE TENSION / STAIN. IMPROVING DIGESTION UPTAKE OF OXYGEN AND EXCRETION OF TOXIC OUT OF THE BODY.  IN INDIAN TRADITION TOUCHING FOOT IS A WAY TO SHOW RESPECT TO ELDERS TO TAKE THEIR BLESSING.SO  THEIR IS A INCIDENT IN INDIAN MYTHOLOGY RAMAYANA WHEN LORD RAMA WAS IN VANVAS (EXILE) HIS YOUNGER BROTHER BHARAT CAME TO MEET LORD RAMA  TO COME BACK AND TO RULE AYODHAYA. BUT RAMA LORD DENIED TO RETURN AYODHAYA BECAUSE HE DON'T WANT TO  DISRESPECT HIS FATHER (DASRATH) ODER, HENCE BHARAT TOOK LORD RAMA PADUKA TO AYODHAYA.AND EVEN PREACHING OF TOES OF GOD AND GODDESS WAS PART OF INDIAN CULTURE FROM A PERIOD OF LONG TIME.

FOOTWEAR HAS BEEN  USE SINCE EARLIEST HUMAN HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS OF COMPLETE SHOES DATE BACK TO CHALCOLITHIC 5000BCE. SOME ANCIENT CIVILIZATION, SUCH AS EGYPT AND GREECE HOWEVER SAW NO PRACTICAL NEED FOR FOOTWEAR DUE TO CONVENIENT CLIMATIC AND LANDSCAPE SITUATION AND LANDSCAPE SITUATION AND USED SHOE PRIMARY  AS ORNAMENTS AND INSIGNIA OF POWER.

THE ROMANS SAW CLOTHING AND FOOTWEAR AS UNMISTAKABLE SIGN OF POWER AND STATUS IN SOCIETY ,AND MOST ROMAN WERE WORE FOOTWEAR WHILE SLAVES AND PEASANTS REMAINED BAREFOOT THE MIDDLE AGE SAW THE RISE OF HIGH HEELED SHOES, ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH POWER AND DESIRE TO LOOK LARGER THAN LIFE AND ARTWORK FROM THAT PERIOD OFTEN DEPICT BARE FEET AS SYMBOL OF POVERTY DEPICTION OF CAPTIVES SUCH AS PRISONERS OR SLAVES THE PERIOD OF WELL INTO 18TH CENTURY SHOW THE INDIVIDUAL BAREFOOTED ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY AT CONTRASTING THE PREVAILING PARTAKERS. OF THE SCENE.. OFFICERS LIKES PROSECUTORS, JUDGES BUT ALSO SLAVES OWNERS OR PASSIVE BYSTANDERS WERE USUALLY PORTRAYED WEARING SHOES, DURING THE MIDDLE AGES MAN AND WOMEN BOTH WORE PATTERNS,  COMMONLY SEEN AS PREDECESSOR OF MODERN HIGH HEELED SHOE WERE POOR AND LOWER CLASS OF EUROPE, AS WELL AS SLAVES IN NEW WORLD USUALLY WERE BAREFOOT .  IN 15TH CENTURY, CHOPINES WERE CREATED IN TURKEY WERE 7-8 INCHES HIGH. AND BECAME POPULAR IN VENICE THROUGHOUT EUROPE, AS STATUS SYMBOL  REVEALING  WEALTH AND SOCIAL STANDING.

DURING THE 16TH CENTURY ,SUCH AS CATHERINE DE MEDICI AND MARY I OF ENGLAND BEGAN WEARING HIGH HEELED SHOE TO LOOK TALLER AND LARGER IN LIFE. BY 1580 MEN  ALSO WORE THEM  AND A PERSON WITH AUTHORITY OR WEALTH MIGHT DESCRIBE AS WELL HEELED. IN MODERN SOCIETY HIGH HEELED SHOE ARE A PART OF WOMEN FASHION AND WIDESPREAD IN CERTAIN COUNTRY  AROUND WORLD. 

TYPES AND VARIETY OF FOOT WEAR 

SLIPPERS(CHAPPALS)

KOLHAPURI CHAPPAL- ORIGINALLY KOLHAPURI SLIPPEERS MADE OF LEADER FROM BUFFALO SKIN AND THREAD WEIGHT OF SLIPPER NEARLY 2KG THEY ALSO CALLED AS KAPASHI,PIETAAN, KACKKADI, BAKKALNALI THESE WERE NAME OF VILLAGES WHERE THESE SLIPPERS WERE MADE, THEY WERE MADE OF FINE LEATHER ALSO THEY WERE MADE OF DIFFERENT STYLES, COLORS  AND DESIGNS. THEY ARE IN DEMAND IN MARKET IN OTHER TYPES.  SLIPPERS, BECAUSE NO  USE OF NAIL(KEEL) AND IN PROCESS OF OILING SLIPER TAKE SHAPE ACCORDING TO YOUR LEGS THAT MAKE KOLHAPURI CHAPPAL MORE COMFORTABLE.. IN YEAR 2019 KOLHAPURI SLIPPER GOT GI TAG (GI TAG -GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION) TAG A MEASURE WHICH DEFINES THE REGION OF ORIGIN OF THE PRODUCT IT FURTHER INDICATES THAT THE PRODUCT IS AN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF THAT  REGION).IN WHICH OWNERSHIP  GIVEN IN MAHARASTRA STATE KOLHAPUR, SOLAHPUR,SANGLI, SATARA, AND STATE OF KARNATAK , DISTICT  INCLUDE THARWAR, BAGALKOT, BELGRAM, BIJAPUR .THE REVOLUTION CAME FOR WEAVERS OF KOLHAPURI SLIPPER INDIAN AND INTENTIONAL MARKET THE KOLHAPURI SLIPER GOT ITS IDENTITY AND INCREASED ITS HIGH DEMAND AND OPENED MARKET FOR THEM.TODAY MANY BOLLYWOOD ACTORS CARRY KOLHAPURI SLIPPERS WITH THEM AND ITS BECAME A FASHION STATEMENT IN BOTH TRADITIONAL AND MODERN OUTFITS.        

PESHWANI CHAPPAL 

SHOES- ZARI JUTTIYA, INDO TIBETAN FELT BOOT, VEGETABLE FIBER BOOT, ATLANTIC SHOE, BALLET SHOE, BALLET FLATS, BROTHAL CREEPERS, COURT SHOE, DIBABATIC SHOE, GAL SHOE, KITTEN HILLS, HILL TOPS/ CLIMBING SHOE, SCHOOL SHOE, PARTY WEAR SHOE, SNEAKERS, BOAT SHOE, SNOW SHOE/ ICE SKATER. 

SOCKS ANKLES, BOOBY SOCKS, DIABETIC SOCKS, FOOT WRAPS, KNEE HILLS, TOE SOCKS.

MOJARI'S AND JUTIS

THESE SHOES IS IDENTITY OF LUXURIES AND HIGH STATUS SYMBOL , THESE SHOE INTRODUCED IN ERA OF MUGHAL RULER SALIM SHAH  THESE SHOE WERE DECORATED MY DIFFERENT PEARLS AND GEMS OVER THE TIME IT BECAME POPULAR FOR ITS ORNAMENTAL  STYLE AND UNIQUE STYLE , SHAPE AND ITS SHINING QUALITY AFTER THE MUGHAL PERIOD  WORE BY RICH ZAMINDARS( LANDLORDS), KINGS QUEENS. BUT IN  TODAY'S  SCENARIO ITS WORE IN ALL OVER INDIA  IN TRADITIONAL OCCASIONS SPECIALLY, POPULAR IN RAJASTHAN AND PUNJAB. WITH OVER OF TIME PASSED THE WEAVERS AND CRAFTSMAN SETTLED IN NORTH INDIA AND THEIR RESPECTIVE AREAS AND TRANSFER THEIR SKILL OF MAKING SHOE TO THE NEXT GENERATION BROUGHT VARIATIONS OVER TIME. ORIGINALLY THESE MOJARI WORE WITH FORMAL DRESS AND TRADITIONAL DRESS SUCH AS KURTA PAJAMA, DHOTI KURTA, SHERWANI AND PAJAMA.

FOOTWEAR IS ONE OF THE MAJOR CUSTOM WHICH COMPLETE OUR OUTFIT, WE CAN CALCULATE ITS IMPORTANCE  THAT A PERSON CAN JUDGE  OR MEASURE YOUR PERSONALITY,.ITS TOUGH TO IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT FOOTWEAR.

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