Shoes

I had gone to buy shoes yesterday and wondered, that what is their history? Who wore the first shoes. Since when did shoes become a fashion from a necessity? What are the materials used to make them?
I my home town in Rajasthan, India, shoes are made of camel leather. They are quite different. We call them mojri. And during old times, the shoe or mojri as we call it, would eat into the legs. We had to oil it.

Mojri looked like this.



Picture has been borrowed from rediff. Also it is interesting to read the history of shoes here.