Crakows or crackowes were a style of shoes with extremely long toes very popular in 15th century Europe. They were so named because the style was ...
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thought to have originated in Kraków, the then capital of Poland. They are also known as poulaines or pikes, though the term poulaine, as in souliers à la poulaine, "shoes in the Polish fashion", referred to the long pointed beak of the shoe, not the shoe itself.