Wearing wooden clogs was a Dutch tradition. Since Amsterdam lay below sea level, clogs not only kept out dampness and moisture, preventing shoes from getting dirty, but their boat-shaped design also represented that, with one's feet aboard a boat, one could travel All Under Heaven—there was nowhere in the world one could not go.
For a time, because Myrtle kept flooding the floor, younger students had to wear clogs whenever they passed the stairs on her floor, to keep the filth overflowing from the toilet from soiling their feet. Back then, they had not yet mastered more advanced spells. Besides, having some distance between their feet and that filth made them feel much better psychologically.
"Clack, clack." The sound of walking in clogs was anything but pleasant. Worse still, if one took larger, quicker strides, it splashed sewage everywhere.
This could not solve the problem at its root. Later, Albus stepped in to negotiate with Myrtle. If she refused to control herself, she might have to find somewhere else to live.
Myrtle became more restrained afterward, but the "fashion" of wearing clogs did not end until the new school year began.
Men could wear boots, but women had a harder time with them, because there was little clothing that matched boots. And if the hem of a skirt accidentally brushed against something on the ground, that would be even more "wonderful."
Perhaps that was how women came to like high heels.
Besides corsets, another "female necessity" Pomona hated for mutilating the body in the name of beauty was high heels. Louis XIV had clearly invented them to compensate for his insecurity about his height, so why had it later become something women were mocked for if they could not walk in high heels?
She hated clogs, and she hated even