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Cute little cutouts for your toes! I can't help but think of ducks! But seriously, a very serviceable effort, looks like.<br>
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Cute? But I have seen them on several murals, and on the front of Croom's book (look at the woman's feet), so this sort of toe-style seems pretty common. The use of thread vs. leather thong is a good question though. And the birka trader versions are all held together with hobnails, which may be most accurate but most uncomfortable; all the women voted against having hobnails. <p></p><i></i>
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the outline of the toes do seem reasonably common- but sometimes done in different ways.<br>
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ie sometimes all the toes<br>
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and sometimes just the big toe<br>
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Graham Sumner's 'Roman Military Clothing' book 2 has a number of detailed later Roman shoes, including a reconstruction of a pair that has integral laces. You should get quite a bit from his paintings as well. <p></p><i></i>
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If anyone has drawn out shoe patterns, as Matt Amt has done on Leg XX page, I can post them. I"ll probably do a page for each shoe type, starting with the tied sandal and the one from Vindolanda I"m doing now, seen in the pictures above. <p></p><i></i>
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hi this link shows more roman shoes and sandals from the roman tomb at hawara, egypt<br>
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[url=http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/digital_egypt/hawara1/roman/shoes.html" target="top]petrie museum[/url]<br>
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