{"id":470,"date":"2013-02-25T14:43:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T14:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pikolinos.com\/blog\/en\/?p=470"},"modified":"2018-11-29T01:19:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T01:19:27","slug":"the-history-of-the-shoehorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pikolinos.com\/en\/the-history-of-the-shoehorn\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of the shoehorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pikolinos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/calzador.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-471\" title=\"shoehorn\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pikolinos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/calzador.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"488\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The shoehorn is that useful device that helps us put on our shoes more easily.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although the shoehorn\u2019s actual origin is unknown, we do know that the first ones date back as far as the 15<sup>th<\/sup> century. It is supposed that<strong> they became particularly popular in the Victorian era to help people get in to their shoes<\/strong>; tight shoes were particularly fashionable then and without a shoehorn they would have been impossible to put on.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays it is not unusual to see <strong>shoehorns made of plastic due to it flexibility of the material<\/strong>. However, shoehorns used to be made of a range of materials including of wood, ivory, silver and other precious metals, especially amongst the aristocracy.<\/p>\n<p>In our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pikolinos.com\">Pikolinos <\/a>stores you will find shoehorns made of plastic in the colour of our branding. So what about you? Do you use a shoehorn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shoehorn is that useful device that helps us put on our shoes more easily. Although the shoehorn\u2019s actual origin is unknown, we do know that the first ones date&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"views":3284,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pikolinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pikolinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pikolinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pikolinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pikolinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pikolinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pikolinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pikolinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pikolinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pikolinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}