Fashion: Shoes: Sole: Print
Sole of arms   (0)  [vote for, against]
Coat of arms engraved on soles

Now that there is no more shield to be carried before oneself to be ornamented with one's personal insignia and what shield there is is left behind in a car park somewhere remote while one trudges along floors leveled smooth and of vast expanse especially if one is visiting somebody important in the important one's own castle there is a need to announce to others that one has arrived and travelled over this hallowed place and that one is a person to be respected.

With your sole of arms, you would just shuffle your feet on a mat of dust before disembarking and then leave a trail emblazoned with your personal mark, so that anyone following could just look down and say:

"Gules, nine bezants in saltire cantoned between two boars' heads erased in fess, the dexter contournée Or, armed Argent and langued Azure. Above the Shield is placed an Helm, with a Mantling Gules doubled Or and on a Wreath of the Liveries is set for Crest a thistle slipped and leaved Gules each leaf charged with a bezant, and in an Escrol over the same ..."
-- neelandan, Dec 18 2003

custom soles http://www.halfbake...idea/custom_20soles
"...custom shoes arrive that leave the user-designed foot print." [phoenix, Oct 04 2004]

Jesus Loves You http://www.shoesofthefisherman.com/
Great for fundraising, beach evangelism and mission trips! [grip, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Roman courtesans and prostitutes used to have shoe soles which printed the words "Follow me" whever they walked. Similar? This was done with studs or hobnails, I believe.

Can I have a fish on mine?
-- squeak, Dec 18 2003


By the way, what the hell is the last paragraph about? Can you draw that please.
-- squeak, Dec 18 2003


//...anyone following could just look down and say:

"Gules, nine bezants in saltire...//

Or, "Stepped in something he shouldn't have"
-- PeterSilly, Dec 18 2003


Already HalfBaked.
-- phoenix, Dec 18 2003


British Knights shoes?
-- Letsbuildafort, Dec 18 2003


//Gules, nine bezants in saltire...//

Golly, nine pedants in satire!
-- k_sra, Dec 18 2003


...and a partridge in a pear tree.
-- DrCurry, Dec 18 2003


1st person: "Heh, check out my 'filleting' soles!"

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2nd person: "Man, that's some groovy sole terrain--but hey, check this out!:

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-- Tiger Lily, Dec 18 2003



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