Editing Clog (section)

==History==
[[File:Benedetto Ghirlandaio Natividad (cropped) clogs.jpg|thumb|Clogs in a 1400s painting <!--can you find an earlier image?-->]]
[[File:Fritz von Uhde Leierkastenmann.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|In this 1883 painting by [[Fritz von Uhde]] painted in the Dutch town of [[Zandvoort]], clogs are shown to be the 19th century townspeople's normal footwear.|left]]
The use and prevalence of wooden [[footwear]] in [[prehistory|prehistoric]] and [[classical antiquity|ancient times]] is uncertain, owing both to the ambiguity of surviving records and the difficulty of both preserving and recognizing its remains. Used clogs also tended to be repurposed as [[firewood]].{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

Some [[ancient Greeks]] apparently wore ''kroúpezai'' ({{lang|grc|κρούπεζαι}}) made of wood. These were known to the [[ancient Romans|Romans]] as {{lang|la|sculponeae}}.<ref name=marindin>{{citation |last=Marindin|first=George Eden |author-link= |date=1870 |editor-last=William |editor-first=Smith |editor-link=William Smith (antiquary) |display-editors=0 |contribution=Solea |contribution-url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0063%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DS%3Aentry+group%3D3%3Aentry%3Dsolea-cn |title=A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities |location=London |publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] }}.</ref> Both the Greeks and Romans also made [[sandal]]s by attaching leather straps to wooden soles in various ways.<ref name=marindin/>

The [[ancient China|ancient Chinese]] wore wooden ''jī'' ({{lang|zh|{{linktext|屐}}}}) by at least the [[Han dynasty|Han]] [[list of Chinese dynasties|dynasty]], when a form decorated with colorful ribbons and designs was used by women [[Marriage in China|on their wedding days]]. Under the [[Sima Jin dynasty|Jin]], a different style shaped the entire shoe from a single piece of wood and, after the [[Tang dynasty|Tang]], the southern Chinese wore "boot clogs" ({{lang|zh|{{linktext|靴|屐}}}}, ''xuējī'').<!--cites at [[Hanfu footwear]]-->

The oldest wooden footwear so far recovered in Europe was found at [[Amsterdam]] and [[Rotterdam]] in the [[Netherlands]]. These date from {{c.|1230}} and {{c.|1280}}{{sfn|Wiedijk|2000|p=2}} and looked very similar to the wooden shoes still worn in the area.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} By about this era, wooden [[patten (shoe)|pattens]] were being used as overshoes to protect the wearer's hose and indoor shoes when walking outside, particularly in inclement weather. Some shoes then began directly incorporating the wooden platform into their soles, like the [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]] [[chopine]]s.