• Tar_Alcaran
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    128 days ago

    I’m pretty sure those didn’t become a regular thing till the 1930s in the earliest. So probably not. That’s also a fair bit over anyone’s safe lifting limits.

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      8 days ago

      Believe it or not, that’s what dutch clogs (sabots, the teardrop-shaped wooden shoes) were for. They were around as early as the 1500s.

      • Tar_Alcaran
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        38 days ago

        True! It was pretty much the go-to safety shoes during the industrial revolution, and the agrarian safety shoe long before that. (Gotta spend those long winter nights doing something when you can’t plow the fields)