This history of patent leather is as murky as its finish is glossy.

Why is there a shoe in your wall?

Invented for a faddish game in the 1880s, tennis shoes became fashionable when manufacturers, fearing the tennis boom would go bust, pushed them off the lawn.

Every generation of medical professionals has issued the same warnings about high heels. For hundreds of years.

How can a shoe communicate many different messages at once?

Fluoroscopes were used in shoe stores from the mid-1920s to 1950s in North America and Europe -- even though the radiation risks of x-rays were well-known.

A recently-discovered skeleton wearing leather boots inspires a walk through our history of wearing animal hides.

How big a difference does air resistance make when running a marathon? Nike tried to find out recently. A look at the science behind the 2-hour marathon.

The iconic Dr. "Doc" Martens boots seem to have shifted their own image, expanding its reach and popularity.