Costume Shoes: For Walks Down Halloween Lane


by summit655433 - Date: 2010-08-15 - Word Count: 416 Share This!

The earliest shoes were sandals and the first soft shoes were worn by the mountain people who lived on the Iranian border and date back to 1600-1200 BC. They were made of wraparound leather and resembled the modern day moccasin. The modern shoestring, or shoelace, is English in origin and dates back to 1790. Before this time, buckles fastened shoes. Generally speaking, until about 1850, most shoes were made in such a way that there was no difference between the left shoe and the right. In 1858, an American inventor named Lyman Reed Blake invented a special sewing machine for sewing the soles of shoes to the upper parts. Soon after in 1878, Charles Goodyear (of tire fame) invented the Goodyear Welt, which was a machine made expressly for sewing boots and shoes. Find the perfect costume shoes that will make your costume the best without breaking the bank!

If you have most of your Halloween outfit and are looking for costume shoes to match, select carefully. An Elvis outfit, for example, would be really nifty with a pair of "blue suede shoes," which most likely you would not have a pair of in your bedroom closet. (You never know, however, and if you do, then you may have everything you will need after all.) A renaissance costume wouldn't be the same without a pair of rustic looking knee high boots. Even a sexy costume wouldn't be the same without a pair of platform shoes.

Costume shoes are difficult to make, and while you may be able to improvise with other elements of the costume, it is more than likely that you will have to buy the shoes that will complete your outfit. Don't despair, for there are many different costume shoes to choose from.

Consider some of the following:
• Gangster Two-Tone
• Witch Vampire Platform Calf Boot
• Bumble Bee Sexy

There are a lot of inexpensive ways to create the illusion of a costume shoe. Are you going as a pirate? No worries. Rather than buying an additional pair of knee high boots, you can select a pair of boot tops instead. These are inserts that give an old, rustic feel to the tops of your boots. It takes a normal pair of boots you wear everyday and gives them a boost.

The Halloween costume fantasy is yours alone but whatever look you are trying to achieve, the right Halloween Shoes and Halloween Boots will complete the look.

Choose carefully and…walk softly.

You never know who may be walking behind you.

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