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I will share something about Finland shoe history today. You can see 2 pairs of shoes in that picture (from google) and originally the brown shoes (Reinot) were for men and red (Ainot) ones were for women. I heard it all started in 1930's when people needed shoes to wear inside because of the cold floors and when the toilets were outside so it was easy to wear also. Names of the shoes are just normal Finnish names for man and woman but it's in plural. Now it's been made different versions and colors. I have that brown shoe style in green because it's my favorite color It's more common style and it's not anymore only for men (you can also have it in pink ) I see some Finnish ice hockey teams have their own style. It's popular but many people don't wear it in city center. Interesting piece of Finland history. One my foreigner friend was so curious about my shoes and I explain this same thing to him and then I thought why not share it here too