This is a list of shoe styles and designs. A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot while doing various activities. Shoes are also used as an item of decoration. The design of shoes has varied enormously through time and from culture to culture, with appearance originally being tied to function. Additionally, fashion has often dictated many design elements, such as whether shoes have very high heels or flat ones. Contemporary footwear varies widely in style, complexity, and cost. Shoemaking is the process of making footwear. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand. Traditional handicraft shoemaking has now been largely superseded in volume of shoes produced by industrial mass production of footwear, but not necessarily in quality, attention to detail, or craftsmanship.
Shoe styles Shoe designers have described a very large number of shoe styles, including the following:
Abaca slippers
Approach shoe
Bakya Balgha Ballet boot Ballet flat Ballet shoe Pointe shoe Balmoral Bast shoe Blucher Boat shoe Boot Australian work Beatle Bovver Caulk Cavalier Chap Chelsea Chukka Desert Combat Desert combat Jungle Cowboy Dress Engineer Fashion Galoshes Gladiator sandals Go-go boots Hessian Hiking Hip
Jackboot Jodhpur Jump Knee-high Motorcycle boot Mountaineering Rigger Safari Sailing boots Sheepskin Thigh-high
Ugg Wellington boot (Gumboot) Brogan Brogue Brothel creeper Buskin
Cantabrian albarcas Chopine
Cleats Football boots Track spikes Climbing shoe Clog British clog Turkish clogs Court shoe (British English), pump (American English), or d'Orsay pumps Crocs Cross country running shoe Cycling shoe Derby Diabetic shoe Dress shoe Duckbill Driving moccasins Earth shoe Elevator shoes Episcopal sandals Espadrille Flamenco shoe Furlane
Ghillies Giveh
Hanfu footwear High-heeled footwear Clear heels Stiletto heel High-top Hiking shoes Huarache Jazz shoe Jelly shoes
Jutti Kitten heel Klomp Kolhapuri chappal Kung fu shoe Light-up shoes Loafer, see Slip-on Lotus shoes Mary Jane Mexican pointy boots Mojari Moccasin Monk shoe Mukluk Mule Multani Khussa Namaksin
Opanak Opinga Organ shoes Orthopaedic footwear Over-the-knee boot Oxford shoe Wholecut Paduka Pampootie Patten Peep-toe shoe Penny loafer, see Slip-on Peranakan beaded slippers
Pigache Platform shoe Plimsoll Pointinini Poulaine Pulhoer Racing flat Racing shoes Riding boots Rocker bottom shoe Roller shoe Heelys Rope-soled shoe Russian boot Sabot Saddle shoe Sandal Biblical sandals Coiled sewn Flip-flops Geta Hnyat-phanat Ho Chi Minh Saltwater Zori Self-tying shoes Skate shoe Ski boot Slide Slingback Slip-on, or loafers Slipper Sneakers Trail running shoes Snow boot
Spectator shoe Spool heel Steel-toe boot Tap shoes T-bar sandal Tiger-head shoes Träskor Toe shoe Tsarouchi Turnshoe Upanah Uwabaki Valenki Veldskoen Venetian-style shoe Waders Walk-Over shoes
Water shoe Wedge Winklepicker Wörishofer Wrestling shoe Xiuhuaxie
See also
Calceology Cordwainer Horseshoe List of boots List of footwear designers Locomotor effects of shoes Shoeshiner Shoe size Shoe store Shoe tossing Shoes on a table Sneaker collecting
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