Comment on 2,000-year-old decorated Roman sandal unearthed in Spain

yanyuan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• wjrii@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A lot of the very few surviving samples do of course look really primitive, but at the high end, cobblers in the Roamn world were not fuckin' around.

  UC28327 here is a pretty ornate sole with a very modern shape.

  The upper on this one must have been super nice when new.

  Then, there's no reason to suppose that Marcus Aurelius' (and/or Hadrian's) sandals on their statues were idealized past the point of plausibility, though I'm sure once one government contracted statue with approved Imperial sandals gets made, there's a temptation to stick with the motif regardless of the current Emperor's footwear preferences.

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