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There were "shoemakers" in the middle ages that made the shoes. They would do an outline of person's foot, then cut leather to fit the outline. The top part of the shoe was usually tacked on with small nails or the shoe could be made from one piece of leather. Buttons and laces were used to close the shoe and hold it to the foot. Some just slipped on with no ties or buttons. I have a pair of boots made the way they would have been made in the middle ages. This was done by a modern shoemaker using the methods of the time. The shoes have no right or left foot in this time ( that won't happen until the 1700's) and there is no padding in the shoe. Having seen shoes made in the middle ages in museums I can imagine that they were tough on the foot.

Correction--different right and left shoes were really not commonplace until the time of World War I, or late in the 1800s.

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