Pigache

pigaches—fashionable 11th- and 12th-century shoes with long, upturned, pointed toes...

He sat on a cushioned bench and slipped his feet into a pair of gaudy but fashionable pigaches. The long, upturned, pointed shoes were of a matching set with the bliaut.

His new appearance extended down to his pigache boots—with toes pointed too long for common sense. Tristan, being a genial sort who had long ago learned the benefits ofkeeping his honest thoughts to himself, merely nodded.

As if not to be outdone by the fair sex, as ladies headwear ranged ever higher, so too men's footwear became ever longer... by 1450 the shoes were known as pikes or pigaches after a kind of pail with a long handle.

A pointed sleeve, called pigache, as the pointed shoes of the twelfth century had been, was worn by ladies towards the end of his reign.