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Article: Crepida
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- Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
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Crepida
Acrepida was a form of footwear that was a cross between a solea, or sandal, and a calceus, or covered shoe. Crepidae, the plural form of crepida, had durable soles and were usually covered on the heel and around the sides, but the tops were open and held together with thongs, leather strips that acted like laces. Romans seem to have borrowed the shoe from their Etruscan neighbors on the Italian peninsula, and it was in wide usage from about 400 b.c.e. to 400 c.e.
At their simplest crepidae were a kind of slipper. Made of a single piece of soft leather that was cut two inches larger than the
foot size, it was wrapped up the side of the foot and held in place with a leather ...
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