... to a considerable extent, and they then became expensive variety Baxearii The making of them was the business of a ; and these with the class of Solearii, in aU men (or their called makers of the ... shoes or half -boots Thus the HISTORY OF BOOTS AND SHOES 26 Dacians wear the shoe represented in fig 0, which laced across the instep and was secured around the ancle with a band and ornamental ... by the wife of the Conqueror, to commemorate his invasion of England and the battle of Hastings Another form HISTORY OF BOOTS AND SHOES Norman shoe may be of more enriched than the ornament adopted...