What is the shoe?

The shoe is a garment created by man, in order to protect your feet from the harsh environment. It makes his job easier by allowing him to make longer journeys. It protects you from animal bites, stone cuts and with some modifications it even becomes a work tool.
Zapato comes from the Turkish zabata, created with a flexible upper part, which could be made of fabric, natural fibers, and in general leather, which is the material par excellence to make it.
Over the centuries, shoes also gave margin to a status or social position, depending on their manufacture structure and material, eventually manufacturing shoes inlaid with diamonds, gold and jewels, for kings or sovereigns.
Shoes have accompanied man since ancient times, evolving from sandals, and continued their development to this day. The oldest vestiges were found in Oregon, United States, in 1938, estimating an age of between 8000 to 7000 years before Christ. But anthropologists like Eric Trinkaus, consider that its use began between 40,000 and 26,000 years, based on the fact that the thickness of the bones in the human phalanges decreased in this period.

In Egypt and Rome there were elaborate sandals, which protected the feet of soldiers in campaigns, and the population wore light sandals with many ornaments. In the Middle Ages, shoes were made in order to protect the feet, using cloth fabrics to reinforce and adjust them. In Europe, shoes became symbols of status and social position.
Today the shoe has a specific stitching, which has become a quality standard in dress shoes. In the 20th century, industrial and design advances, and industrial plastics, fabrics and adhesives, provided tools to make new types of shoe; but leather and leather are still the material par excellence for the luxurious and quality dress shoe. There is also the orthopedic or corrective shoe.
In the nineteenth century in the United States, it is where the first pair of shoes that distinguished between the right and the left was manufactured, this happened in Philadelphia. Until then all pairs of shoes in the world were the same.