Unforgettable Fashion: Cool Straw Woven Shoes

Inventory of spring and summer in 2012

The trend is that no qualified media and fashion bloggers will leave behind the cool, natural straw woven shoes. But in fact, this fashionable shoe is not a new design in recent years. It has appeared in France and Spain in thirteenth Century.

The origin of

French and Spanish summer sandals

The English name of straw woven shoes is espadrilles, which is derived from French and evolved from espart of the oak language / Catalan language (the Mediterranean Mediterranean region of the grass sole).

In thirteenth Century, King Aragon's footmen made hand-made products of straw woven shoes and recorded straw shoes, which first began in the southern part of France in the southern part of France and the Basque area in the Pyrenees Mountains in northern Spain, and sold the highest in the French city of the city of the Republic of Moir Leon in the region.

At that time, the straw woven shoes were made of straw twine, and the canvas was upper. It was comfortable, light and breathable, and was well liked by the local farmers and men. When Shimoda Kosaku was there, he would pedal a pair of straw woven shoes.

In 1880, a large number of straw woven shoes were sold to miners and exported to South America.

Straw woven shoes are not only suitable for wearing, but also cheap, and gradually come out of Pyrenees and become popular in big cities of France and Spain.

In 1960s, the development of fashion culture forced the straw shoes to undergo a series of fashion changes. At that time, Eve Szentgrolan, the most famous designer in Paris, ordered a batch of straw woven shoes with heels, causing a sensation.

Despite several centuries of development and changes, high fashion designer and high street brand are constantly being developed, but the most traditional hand made canvas shoes are still very popular. Many of the hand-made workshops with long history are still alive, and straw woven shoes are today's national grade sandals in France and West Bago.

Early straw woven shoes in Bordeaux, France

After processing and weaving, the grass green needle grass

Details of the shoe "live fossil"

The traditional straw woven shoes are a kind of flat bottom casual shoes, mostly with canvas as the upper, and the Spanish weeds as the sole, and stitched in the connection.

Although today's new designs emerge in an endless stream, some fundamental features remain intact for hundreds of years.

Maybe that's why some people call straw woven shoes "living fossil" shoes.

As carefree as an artist

Speaking of women who like to wear straw woven shoes, Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly are graceful representatives.

The male names related to this summer shoe are the most handsome and handsome characters of their own style: Hemingway, Daly and Picasso.

Perhaps it is because these masters have unfettered personality, so that their casual and comfortable straw woven shoes are shared by them, so that they can wear their straw woven shoes for generations to make them feel like themselves.

This summer's straw woven shoes, TOMS, Prodiso and Hentsch Man still retain the traditional design. Most of them even insist on making hand-made products in Spain. These are classic choices worth buying for men who do not like publicity.

And Dsquared2, CASTA ER and so on, and so on, the characteristics of straw woven shoe sole with the desert boots, Le Fuxie and other styles of grafting, also let people see the light, conform to the trend of this summer.

The Sardana dancers, using traditional straw shoes as special dance shoes, are highly concentrated in Catalonia civilization.

Sardana dance of straw woven shoes

In the birthplace of straw woven shoes, La Sardane is the most popular dance in Catalonia.

The dancers pull their hands to form a circle, and the short steps and the long steps take place alternately.

Sardana's uniqueness is not only in form but also in its dancing shoes.

To represent the local traditional culture of straw woven shoes for the Sardana special dance shoes, very national characteristics.

The dancers will put a bandage on straw woven shoes and tie them to ankles, just like ballet shoes, so as to better fix the straw woven shoes on the feet in the cheerful dance.