The Oldest Leather Shoes that beat Prada
At first glance, it looks like a piece of junk but come to think of it as an ancient piece of fashion of which Prada became known to the world as finest and world class makers of shoes. Indeed, archaeologist discovered this primitive thing and noted as the oldest leather shoes ever.
Would you believe that this shoe is thousand years older? Definitely, this 5,500 year old prehistoric shoe has been preserved under layers of sheep dung and was made of cowhide and tanned with oil from a plant or vegetable. Excavated by scientist in a huge cave in Armenia, the shoe became a part of a treasure trove of artifacts since the period of Chalcolithic period or Copper Age.
According to Mitchell Rothman, one of the anthropologists and Chalcolithic experts at Widener University and involved in the searching of the primitive shoe, ““The shoe is really cool, and it’s certainly something that highlights the unbelievable kinds of discoveries at this site. The larger importance, though, is where the site itself becomes significant. You have the transition really into the modern world, the precursor to the kings and queens and bureaucrats and pretty much the whole nine yards.”
The appearance of the said primitive shoe includes leather laces crisscross through numerous leather eyelets which was originally worn on the right foot. It might fit for a small man or a teenager and more accurate to a woman with size 7 feet. As far as celebrities are concerned, the shoe can even slightly fit for Sarah Jessica Parker who had a Manolo Blahniks size 6 ½ and too tight to fit for Sarah Palin who had worn a red Double Dare pumps by Naughty Monkey size 7 ½.
According to Jimmy Choo, the shoe resembles nearly as a L. L.Bean-type soft-soled walking shoe than anything. One of the lead scientists, Gregory Areshian, had told that these shoes are more probably expensive, indulging with high quality and finest leather.
Many discoveries came out that there were some other shoes of which have similar attributes to the oldest shoe ever discovered such as the oldest known leather shoe belonged to Ötzi the Iceman which has bearskin soles, deerskin panels, tree-bark netting and grass socks and some are mostly made from plant fibers.
To the extent that this shoe was discovered, it had given an extremely fascinating idea for Prada to make a shoe inspired from the prehistoric fashion. The statement goes with that Prada can beat up the said type of fashion line of shoes worldwide.
