Archaeologists from the Norwegian Maritime Museum uncovered thousands of remarkably well-preserved leather goods, providing ...

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.

Across late medieval society the pointiness of shoes became so extreme that in 1463 King Edward IV passed a law limiting toe-point length to less than two inches within London.

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.

In his history of the Church, written in about 1100, Orderic Vitalis railed against the dress of Norman lords, with particular vitriol aimed at long-toed shoes.

At times, the barefoot shoe movement has played out like an all-out unleashing of designers' unbridled creativity. We've seen foam feet, ruggedized socks, foot condoms, half shoes and every other ...

Fashion-conscious medieval men paid the price for their love of pointy-toed shoes with a sharp increase in bunions, archaeologists have said. Shoe styles changed significantly in the 14th Century ...

A change in shoe style during the 14th century, from a rounded toe to a lengthy, pointed tip, drove the rise in foot deformities, researchers at the University of Cambridge believe.