Pigache

Pigache, Poulaine and Pigage are types of shoe with a long pointed turned up toe that was worn during the Romanesque and Byzantine period. The plural form of the word is pigaciae.[1] [2]

The shoes were sometimes stuffed with moss, wool, or horsehair to make the extension erect. The protrusion was sometimes flesh colored. In the 12th century the shoes had a pointed and hooked toe that was sometimes adorned with a small bell.[3]

See also

• Crakow

References

1. The Complete Costume Dictionary by Elizabeth J. Lewandowski page 229
2. A Cyclopaedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent: The dictionary, James Robinson - Planché Chatto and Windus, 1876 - Clothing and dress page459
3. The Art of the Shoe Marie-Josèphe Bossan - 2012 Page 266