Smartly-dressed men in the late 14th century wore ‘crackowes’ – shoes with long pointed toes, invented in the Polish city of Krakow.
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The long pointed shoe was indeed called a crackowe, and could be up to 24 inches long. This made them rather hard to walk in. It is said that at the Battle of Nicopolis in 1398 the French Crusaders had to cut off the toes of their shoes in order to run away from the victorious Ottomans.