Known as poulaines, pointy leather shoes were the height of fashion in 14th century Britain. Medieval men and women about town, however, paid a high price for their fancy footwear: They got bunions.

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Suffering for fashion is nothing new. Researchers in Britain have unearthed new evidence that stylish pointed shoes caused a "plague" of bunions in the late medieval period.

Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed plague of bunions in medieval Britain Date: June 11, 2021 Source: University of Cambridge Summary: Researchers analysing skeletal remains in the city of ...

Life in the Middle Ages was anything but glamorous. Everyday survival was a challenge most of us can’t even imagine. These strange, sometimes unsettling facts from medieval life will make you ...

Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in medieval times. Fashionable pointy-toed shoes called poulaines were ...

Medieval Shoe Fashion May Have Left Marks on Wearers’ Feet News June 13, 2021 (University of Cambridge/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) ...

A LOVE of pointy shoes in Medieval Britain left one in four of the population with bunions on their feet. That’s according to a new study which used skeletons to show how a fashion trend for … ...

Winklepickers have been a staple for British rock 'n' roll fans since the 1950s. But a new study has found that a similar fashion for pointy shoes actually unleashed a plague of bunions in ...