Australians have been taking their shoes for granted for a long time now. Footwear has played a very significant role in Australian history and society, and it’s about time more people acknowledged the humble shoe for what it is. People living in rural areas wear gum boots when it rains and ballerinas living in city suburbs tend to don ballet shoes more often than not, but fundamentally, we’re all the same. It doesn’t matter if you slip your feet into clogs, thongs, moccasins, slippers, boots or stilettos, the main thing is that we’re all human beings living with a very strong reliance on footwear in general.