I'm surprised at the fact that style meant so much 2300 years ago.

[Figarosmom]

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[HeartsCanHope]

1. But it's shoes, Figarosmom!

Never met a woman that didn't like great shoes!

[calimary]

2. Well, YEAH!

[Figarosmom]

3. I know i certainly had many of the best.

Worked at s high end shoe store all through college. Got my shoes at cost. I had so many Italian shoes it's not funny. And boots, don't even get me started.

[HeartsCanHope]

4. My young feet would have envied you so much!

My old feet are happy in Skechers and New Balance.

[Figarosmom]

6. Yeah. Now it's

Eastland and Clark's for me.

Boy I loved my Miramonte wedges so much. But with leather soles they'd be too slippery for me now.

[Layzeebeaver]

8. Ahhh.... Fratelli Rosetti.. my all time favorite!

When we were travelling around Europe, over the years, I always made it a point to visit the lot stores in various cities.

I knew it was bad when the folks at the store in Venice remembered me and the shoes I’ve purchased over the years (before they implemented a CRM data system!) jeeze…

Good time… good times…

(Still have many of them)

[Figarosmom]

9. Oh I loved their tassel loafers.

I always remembered my customers. Back then we spent a lot of time finding what they wanted and the best fit. So we talked a lot and got to know people.

[FadedMullet]

5. Is it just me or do you think we are in some kind of golden age of new archaelogical discoveries that.....

.......surprise us with unexpected and new appreciations of how advanced some people were thousands of years ago?

[Figarosmom]

7. Not advanced, concerned

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About appearance as well as service and function.
This would have been in the Iron Age maybe at the beginning of the Roman empire.

[FadedMullet]

12. You're right about the boot, but I was referring to what seems to be an almost daily report......

.......of some new discovery of human settlement or civilization that dates back thousands of years and surprises me with unexpected advances.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. But, like today, only available to the rich.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. This to the Nth power. Archaeologists know social status symbols when they see them. nt