Lace-less slip-on shoes. Casually worn in Norway, but worn with lounge suites in the 1930's, and with elasticated inserts on the side allow the shoe to be easily removed. Now worn by both men and women.
It may have no heal or a very thin, orinating from the ballet slipper. In the medival times ballet flats were popular with both men and women. They went out of fashio when the high-heeled shoe came into style, also worn by both men and women. With the different marketing trends, the ballet pumps ...
Originally a "stiletto" was a weapon, fashioned in the 1400's, which is a knife or dagger with a long slender blade and needle-like point. Named after this, the stiletto heel is a womans shoe with a long thin heel, first named this way in 1930. A real stiletto heel has a stem of solid steel or ...
A open-toe shoe is a woman's shoe in which there is an opening at the toe-box allowing the toes to show. Open-toe shoes were popular beginning in the 1940s but fell out of fashion by the 1960s. Recently, they have enjoyed some popularity again, with variations such as "peep-toe boots" appearing.
An african axe or a hatchet. Traditionally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the head made with wrought iron and the handle made with wood. It may be thrown at a short distance or can be used in hand to hand combat.
It is a curved throwing dagger consisting of an iron blade with a curved back and rearward spike, so that it can also be used in close combat fighting. This was used before western colonialization, and it may vary in shape and size accoring to the origins, as it may also be known as: hunga ...
A 22 inch bladed throwing knife used by the Azende of Nubia of the Avongara clan. It has three different blades projecting at different angles to maximise damage. Not only was it used as weaponry but it was also used as dowry, as it carried status becaue only professional warriors used it.
An African club, used mostly in Southern and Eastern Africa. Its wsimply a walking stick with a large knob on one end. This weapon was often used during wars used to beat oponents on the head. Later during the apartheid era in South Africa, the knobkierrie was carried during protests, and now serve ...
