10 unnecessary ridiculous facts about shoes

Did you know that Carrie Bradshaw's shoe collection from the Sex and the City movie cost 35,000 euros? That Jimmy Choo designed his first shoe at the age of eleven? And that ankle boots are mainly worn by aggressive people? Whether you are team heel, sneaker, mule, slipper, boot, espadrille, loafer, ballerina, boat shoe, hiking shoe, Ugg, slipper or - let's be crazy - clog: this article is for you.

1. Research shows: of all the shoes a woman owns on average, 4 percent is red and 33 percent is black.

2. Until 1818, there was no left and right shoe. The Romans were the first to make a left and a right shoe. Before this time, there was no difference between left and right, and a shoe could be worn on either foot. Naaaa. How not chill!

3. The type of shoes you wear depends, eh, on your salary. Of the women who earn less than 40,000 dollars a year, 70 percent never wear heels to work, while one-fifth of women with an annual salary of more than 150,000 dollars always wear heels at the office.

4. Particularly in Arab culture, showing the bottom of a shoe is considered quite offensive. You are telling someone that you are much higher up the ladder, that they should only see your shoes or - worse - only the soles of your shoes, like only a piece of vermin that you step on could.

5. The traditional Dutch wooden clogs were developed because the leather of the ‘existing’ shoes was not resistant to all the water in the Netherlands. Additionally, leather shoes were often unaffordable for the poorer Dutch people, so they wore wooden sandals.

6. Havaianas are actually inspired by Japanese sandals, which had soles made of rice straw. So that's why the iconic flip-flops have a ribbed rice pattern.

7. In Hungary, it is a tradition for the groom to make a toast with the bride's shoe. Yes, they drink out of the shoe. Swallow.

8. Sneakers get their name because the rubber soles make no noise when walking. You can sneak around with them.

9. Shoe fetishist Darlene Flynn holds the Guinness World Record for the largest shoe collection ever. In twelve years, she has collected 16,400 pairs of shoes worth 500,000 dollars. Respect.

10. Oh and, Cinderella has shoe size 37.5. Now you know that too.