Shoes are stiff-soled, protective footwear that encloses the whole (1) leg / foot. Other forms of footwear include one-piece moccasins, soft
slippers, backless mules, open sandals, and boots, which extend up the
(2) leg / foot. For most of human history, fine footwear has been a(n)
(3) costly / expensively luxury worn by the upper classes as a sign ofstatus.
In the earliest times people went (4) barelegged / barefoot, a custom that
continued for centuries, especially in warm regions and indoors, Today
Muslims still (5) take off / put on their shoes on entering a mosque to
indicate respect.
The first foot coverings were probably animal (6) skins / leather, which
peoples ofthe Stone Age in northern Europe and Asia (7) tied / tried around
their ankles in cold weather. Such footwear was the likely (8) descendant /
ancestor of Bronze Age European and Native North American skin moccasins
and the leather and felt boots later worn by the Persians and Mongolians.
Related forms of foot coverings include leather slippers, which (9) origi-
nated / devised in the Middle East and are still worn there, and the traditional
fabric shoes of China, where leather was (10) scarce / abundant. The other
basic type of footwear is the sandal, which is (11) correct / appropriate to
warm countries. Carved wooden shoes, such as European peasant sabots,
and wooden clogs, and those (12) dressed / worn in Japan, give (13) aid /
protection from wet or (14) muddy / rainy ground.
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