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Late Middle Ages
Both men and women wore shoes made of leather with an elongated and exaggeratedly pointed-toe known as the poulaine or crackowe. Only the nobles and rich men wore the more extreme forms of the poulaine. Women wore a poulaine with a less elongated toe.
Survey of Historic Costume 6th Edition, Phyllis G. Tortora and Sara B. Marcketti, Ch. 6 pg. 158
