Re: Funny Videos
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2026 3:30 pm
LOL the hate. They were outlawed off and on in some places, and a particularly funny condemnation is that the elongated toes made it impossible to kneel in prayer. I guess the earlier homosexuality and promiscuity charges didn't fully land, so they had to bring out the big guns and assert that it's blasphemous.They were ridiculed by poets and historians and censured by the clergy, who compared them to scorpion's tails and ram's horns and repeatedly connected them to effeminacy and homosexuality while simultaneously condemning how most courtiers adopted the fashion to "seek the favors of women with every kind of lewdness"
So why it'd stop? That sort of thing is always interesting to me, and this one doesn't disappoint:
Hiding bunions (allegedly) to hiding polydactyly, oh middle ages, you were so crazy! If only modern people remembered you for more than iron maidens, hyper-religiosity, crusades, and plague!By the 1480s, poulaines had generally fallen from fashion in favor of the wide duckbill shoes supposedly popularized by Charles VIII of France owing to his own six-toed foot. The poulaine inspired later footwear fashions, such as the 1950s winklepicker boots.