Shoes?

[alex_antonin]

If you really think about it, shoes are kind of weird. Like... yes, they're a great idea in their current incarnations, but they weren't always that way. The first shoes were basically just leather socks. Like... what was the point of shoes like that? What function did they serve? How did shoes get popular enough that we finally got the modern, actually good versions? Did people really go hundreds of years wearing leather socks for some mysterious reason before we got modern shoes, and if so, why? Inquiring minds demand to know.

This is the kind of thought one has when one has been up since 4 pm and only got like, three or four hours of sleep the night before. @_@