Pigache

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Lambert's Liber Floridus with pigaches or their pattens extended into absurdly long horns,[1] a style later actually worn as the 14th-century poulaines

The pigache, also known

Byzantine
footwear.

Names

Egyptian
footwear (5th–8th cent.), sometimes conflated with the later pigaches
, from the Chronicle of St Denis (14th cent.)

The

Byzantine footwear from as early as the 5th century.[11] It is also simply glossed as a pointed-toe shoe[12] and sometimes conflated with the later poulaine
.

Design

The pigache had a pointed and curved toe,

Poland
in the 14th century.

History

William Rufus in pigaches in a 1915 illustration of the life of St Anselm

The pigache was worn in the late 11th

fashion historian Ruth Wilcox offers that it may have been a simple adaptation of the Normans' sabatons, which they had extended to a point and turned down in the late 11th century to better hold their stirrups during battle.[20]

The pigache became common in

After its initial excesses reaching about 2 inches (5 cm) beyond the foot,

Poland in the mid-14th century.[12]

See also

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