What types of shoes did nobles in the middle ages wear?

Answer 1

Middle Ages footwear, peasants wore skin wrappings, clogs, or for men, stiff leather soles with loose fabric hose or leg wrappings. The nobility and churchmen wore soft cloth or leather shoes related to Roman calcei or to Byzantine shoes neatly laced over a front slit.

By the 12th century, as a result of contact with the East through the Crusades, men's shoes with pointed toes, worn with tight hose made of silk, velvet, or soft leather, became fashionable. Called crackows or poulaines, they featured toes as long as 60 cm (24 in), shaped by whalebone and stuffing and sometimes chained to the knees. Commoners wore shorter, 15-cm (6-in) points. Wooden clogs (pattens) protected such shoes outdoors, and loose-topped boots were used for riding.

In the 15th century, shoe styles changed radically. Both men and women wore low-cut, square-toed slippers. The toes, rolled back and often slashed to reveal a colored lining, became enormously wide and eventually had to be limited by law. Also popular were mules, sometimes attached to high platforms (chopines) so as to raise feet and skirts above the mud.

MorePeople in the Middle Ages wore turn-shoes, which were very simple. Below, there is a link to a very short article on them, but it does have a picture.

Answer 2

Medieval shoes came in many styles, but they were nearly all of a basic design called a turnshoe. This was made of relatively soft leather which was turned over the top of the foot and tied. It is a bit hard to describe so a person gets a good picture of it, but fortunately, there is a photograph with the article linked below.

Answer 3

The nobles wore really fancy high heels. the high heels were six inches high.