Pattens
                                     

                              

Pattens

Photo: Northampton Shoe Museum

Photo: courtesy Hammam Ltd, Istanbul

Pair of women’s pattens, c.1850-1900, in the Shoes of the world collection at the Northampton Museum.

Victorian pattens were simple wooden sandals, much closer in style to these modern ones.

Pattens, sometimes known as bath clogs, are designed to protect the feet from floors which are wet (as in a hammam, Russian bath , or sauna) to to insulate them from the heat of a floor heated by a hypocaust (as in an ancient Roman bath or a Victorian Turkish bath.

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