![]() They have also been known as pikes from the common weapon of the era as piked, peaked, or copped shoes as cracows, crakows, and krakows from the former Polish capital or simply as pointed shoes, pointy shoes, or long toed shoes. The usual English name poulaine ( / p u ˈ l eɪ n/) is a borrowing and clipping of earlier Middle French soulers a la poulaine ("shoes in the Polish fashion") from the style's supposed origin in medieval Poland. After becoming more common as women's footwear and expanding to awkward lengths, poulaines fell from fashion in the 1480s and were seldom revived, although they are considered an influence on some later trends such as the 1950s British winklepicker boots.Ī woodcut of Krakow ( Latin: Cracovia) in Poland from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle. Kings of the era variously taxed them as luxuries, restricted their use to the nobility, or outright banned them. Poulaines were periodically condemned by Christian writers of the time as demonic or vain. ![]() ![]() Sturdier forms were used as overshoes and the sabatons of the era's armor were often done in poulaine style. The chief vogue for poulaines spread across Europe from medieval Poland in the mid-14th century and spread across Europe, reaching upper-class England with the 1382 marriage of Richard II to Anne of Bohemia and remaining popular through most of the 15th century. The poulaine proper was a shoe or boot of soft material whose elongated toe (also known as a poulaine or pike) frequently required filling to maintain its shape. Poulaines, also known by other names, were a style of unisex footwear with extremely long toes that were fashionable in Europe at various times in the Middle Ages. For other uses, see Poulaine (disambiguation).
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