Sabot

A type of clog with a wooden sole and leather upper enclosed at the front but which leaves the heel completely exposed at the back. It is similar to the Dutch clog but without the raised point at the front. In France, they were very commonly worn by the revolutionaries in the late 1700s. For the whole of the 19^th century and early 20^th century, they were worn by farming children at least until their first communion. In the 1978 Italian film by Olmi — L’albero degli zoccoli [The Tree of Wooden Clogs] — they become the poetic symbol of the events of a few peasant families in the southern Bergamo region. Nearly a century later, a new social class revived them as a new status symbol. At the end of the 1960s, as part of the youth-driven revolution, they were boldly worn by young people and hippies throughout the world, both in cities and in winter with thick colored wool stockings.