My name is Zoë Colvin & I am increasingly baffled about everything.
Saturday, 19 September 2020
Clogging On
After reading this letter in the Telegraph, I now realise that clogs (see last post) do have a significance - they are part of an ethical warrior's equipment:
'No Popery or wooden shoes' used to the cry of the anti-Catholics. Wooden shoes were associated with the French and seen as a terrible threat to all we held dear (at the time).
'No Popery or wooden shoes' used to the cry of the anti-Catholics. Wooden shoes were associated with the French and seen as a terrible threat to all we held dear (at the time).
ReplyDeleteYou are a fount of information. I never knew that. Oh, 'sabots', yes, maybe I had some very vague idea but not really
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