Shoe Trivia

If you love shoes as much as we do, then you'll find these little snippets of shoe trivia to be interesting and fun!

A Real Love of Shoes

It has been rumored that Imelda Marcos at one time owned over 3,000 pairs of shoes, but she has been reported to say that she only owned 1,060.

Star Jones-Reynolds, Co-host of the television talk show "the View" disclosed on Dec 15, 2004's live broadcast that she owns about 550 pairs of shoes.

The first zippers were used on shoes

The B. F. Goodrich Company coined the term "zipper" when they introduced a line of galoshes in the 1930s that used the "hookless fastners" or zippers instead of buckles.

The first shoe department

Lord & Taylor, one of the nations oldest department stores, was the first to have a full-fledged shoe department.

The first high heeled shoes

High heeled shoes first came into fashion in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and where worn by both men and women.

The oldest pair of sandals in existence

The oldest pair of sandals ever discovered were found in a cave near Columbia, Missouri. Scientists date the sandals back to about 6,000 B.C. making them over 8000 years old.