Cheap "period" shoes on eBay

Abaddon · Post by **Abaddon** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 3:51 pm

Found these while looking around today.

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&ht=1&query=Medieval+boots+Shoes+reenactment+SCA+

Well...they're cheap.
And they don't look too bad.
Whaddya think?
Would any of these past muster?

Gethin · Post by **Gethin** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 4:55 pm

If you wish to portray the low end of society.
The shoes just look wrong. I think that it might be due to not using a last. Although Helmut uses a nonlasting process, which produces a better looking shoe.
Those shoes are wrong.

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Abaddon · Post by **Abaddon** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 5:13 pm

I kinda like the third ones down.

Vogeljager · Post by **Vogeljager** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 10:52 am

See them all here;
http://www.stores.ebay.com/pastclass/plistings/list/all/dept4/index.html

They look really good to me. They might look better if there was a pair of feet in them.

Certainly better than most (if not all) shoes I've seen in the SCA. Good price too.

JJ Shred · Post by **JJ Shred** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 12:29 pm

I have a pair of the Norman riding boots without the sole/heel. I glued a piece of sole-weight leather on the inside, and overlapped the top edges and saddle stitched them. They work great for riding a horse, and look better than any of the "SCA merchant" conversions I have seen for sale, including the imported Indian turnshoes carried by some of the more authentically-oriented merchants.