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Sonnet: Fashion Victims – how medieval feet suffered for their shoes. From an article in The Independent.
And did those feet in ancient time
limp painfully across England’s mountains green?
And were corns and callouses on England’s
pleasant pastures seen?
Apparently so. Stuart Kay (an archaeologist)
has compared feet from a medieval cemetery
in Ipswich with his own and found the twist
in their contorted toes to be identical. Verily,
the fashion for long pointy toes in the middle ages
and winkle pickers in the 1950s show strong
resemblances. Mr Mays has found in the pages
of medical books a condition, caused by the wrong
shoes, called hallux valgus (bunions in other
words.) Why didn’t they listen to mother?
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