5) Oldest Shoe

It’s no Nike, but hey, if it keeps out the cold and protects your tootsies who cares? This bad boy was designed in Armenia around 5,500 years ago. As you can imagine it’s pretty rare to find these sorts of items after such a long time. Stuff made out of natural materials gets eaten away by critters pretty rapidly.

The grass and dry sheep dung inside the shoe seems to have protected it, the climate where they were found is particularly dry which also helped in the preservation.

The shoe is about the same size as a modern woman’s size 7, but we don’t know what gender would have worn these. Someone asked shoe designer extraordinaire Manolo Blahnik what he thought of the fashion item. I’m fairly sure he’s not an expert in ancient clothing but he has a crack all the same:

It is astonishing how much this shoe resembles a modern shoe!.. The shoe’s function was obviously to protect the foot, but I am in no doubt that a certain appearance of a shoe meant belonging to a particular tribe. I am sure it was part of the outfit which a specific tribe wore to distinguish their identity from another.

FACT.