Children -Re-enactment on the March

[Gobae]

Call that a good thing? Too bad the Romans did not invent the heel, it would have saved them from a lot of backpain.

I was actually being sarcastic. It always strikes me as a very myopic modern view that our (modern) ways are better and that our ancestors equipment was so inferior to actually be so dangerous as to cause deformity. Now, in some extreme or long term cases this was indeed the case but certainly not for occasional footwear use.

The fact of the matter is that walking in period shoes is not the same as walking in modern footwear. Each style has it's advantages and limitations, and each was designed for different environments.