Your Questions About Guess Shoes For Men

Carol asks…

What is the best day of the month/week to shop at nordstrom rack for men's shoes?

Is there a day that they put out the most men's shoes. Specifically athletic shoes.

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You should ask the people that work there, though my guess is that they just put stuff out as they get it, so you should check back every week or something.

Ruth asks…

Who were the first people to wear shoes? How far back do shoes date?

I'm doing an essay and i would like to know who were the first to invent/wear shoes (that is documented, of course). I was thinking the ancient Egyptians, but I am not sure. Please say their country/place of origin (ex: greeks, chinese, romans, etc.) Help is much appreciated! Thanks guys=] Website links would help A LOT!!! Thanks again! [No Wikipedia please...my teacher's rules, not mine]

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I wish I could be more concrete, but I can only say that the Ancient Egyptians were not the first to wear shoes. Franchthi cave in Greece was the site of a Neolithic settlement around 10,000 B.C., and if the terrain of Greece is any indication (rocky soils), settlers would have had to have some sort of proto-sandal to protect their feet. The Otzi "Iceman", a mummified after falling in a glacial revine on the Italian-Austrian border, has still-preserved leather shoes with harder bear-skin leather soles, and his sophisticated shoes were waterproof, ideal for the snow. He died around 3,300 B.C. (Ancient Egyptian civilization did not begin until around 3,150 B.C. With the consolidation of upper and lower Egypt under the first pharaoh) Settlements in Central Europe, where winters are harsh, date back more than 25,000 years. If these people did not wear shoes, their toes and feet would have succumbed to frost bite and they would have died in the elements. So, my guess, is that shoes were either an invention in Mesopotamia (where the weather can be cold, though not harsh as in Central Europe, in the winter) as a result of man's migration out of Africa, or it was an even earlier adaptation in Africa, where men found that with shoes, they could run and not cut or hurt their feet, avoid potentially crippling injuries and hunt wild animals better by being able to run after them without injuring their feet. So the shoe could be much more than 25,000 years old, though I doubt we'd ever find any materials remaining from these early shoes, as animal hides were likely the primary shoe source.

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