25 thoughts on “Shoes For Your Shoes

    1. Gorev Mahagut

      I’m only familiar with galoshes from print. Joyce’s “The Dead”. I also don’t recall hansom cabs, gas street lights, or the visit of Queen Victoria.

      1. Brother Barnabas

        there’s a convent round my way and I’ve noticed that a lot of the old nuns, when out and about in their civvies, wear galoshes… and not just when it’s raining

    2. edalicious

      I always thought galoshes were basically gaiters. I’ve only just discovered now that they’re essentially the complete opposite.

      1. mildred st. meadowlark

        I thought I was the only one.

        It was a very confusing three minutes until I googled it.

    3. Daisy Chainsaw

      I remember my Da had galoshes – “wellies for my shoes” he told me when I was a wee thing. “Why not just wear wellies, Daddy?” asked I, in my innocence. “Because they don’t fit over my shoes and my galoshes do!”

      Me Da’s a gas man.

  1. Janet, I ate my Avatar

    remind me of those wooden cloggy things medival people used to strap on thier shoes to avoid getting them filthy when outside
    nothing new to see here

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