In what year did shoes begin to have differentiation between the left and right foot?

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Gustav Hoffman founded Elefanten in 1908, exclusively as a children's shoe company.Before then, shoes were made on a generic axis, with no defined right or left shoes. Hoffman invented the concept of left and right shoes for children. www.elefanten.com/history.htm Nov 13 01, 12:23 PM

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I have just found this that disagrees with my first answer:- Scientists estimate the first shoes were made from animal skins during the Ice Age (5000,000 years ago). Inclement weather in the Northern Hemisphere has lent many historians to believe the need for foot protection. The biggest find of shoes from this period is thought to date back to 8000 BC and belonged to Native Americans in Missouri. From the examples discovered there were evidence of left and right shoes. www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/physio/podiatry/history.html Nov 13 01, 12:28 PM

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