# List of shoe styles

This is a list of shoe styles and designs. A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot while doing various activities. Shoes are also used as an item of decoration. The design of shoes has varied enormously through time and from culture to culture, with appearance originally being tied to function. Additionally, fashion has often dictated many design elements, such as whether shoes have very high heels or flat ones. Contemporary footwear varies widely in style, complexity and cost. Shoemaking is the process of making footwear. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand. Traditional handicraft shoemaking has now been largely superseded in volume of shoes produced by industrial mass production of footwear, but not necessarily in quality, attention to detail, or craftsmanship.

## Shoe styles

Shoe designers have described a very large number of shoe styles, including the following:
* Abaca slippers
* Abarka
* Air Forces
* Avarca
* Bakya
* Balgha
* Ballet boot
* Ballet flat
* Ballet shoe
** Pointe shoe
* Bast shoe Bast shoe
* Biblical sandals
* Blucher
* Boat shoe
* Boot
** Australian work
** Beatle
** Bovver
** Caulk
** Cavalier
** Chap
** Chelsea
** Chukka
*** Desert
** Combat
*** Desert combat
*** Jungle
** Cowboy
** Dress
** Engineer
** Fashion
** Go-go
** Gutals
** Hessian
** Hiking
** Hip
** Jackboot
** Jodhpur
** Jump
** Knee-high
** Mountaineering
** Rigger
** Safari
** Sheepskin
** Thigh-high
** Tzangion
** Ugg
* Brogan
* Brogue
* Brothel creeper
* Buskin
* Caligae Reproduction caliga, made from a single piece of leather, plus an outsole added with shoe tacks
* Calceus
* Cantabrian albarcas
* Chopine
* Ciocia
* Clear heels
* Cleats
* Climbing shoe
* Clog
** British clog
** Turkish clogs
* Court shoe (British English), pump (American English), or d'Orsay pumps
* Crocs
* Cross country running shoe
* Cycling shoe
* Derby
* Diabetic shoe
* Dress shoe
* Duckbill Duckbill shoes
* Driving moccasins
* Earth shoe
* Elevator shoes
* Episcopal sandals
* Espadrille
* Flamenco shoe
* Flip-flops
* Furlane
* GaleshA traditional galesh
* Galoshes
* Geta
* Ghillies
* Giveh
* Gomusin
* Haferlschuh
* Hanfu footwear
* Heelys
* High-heeled footwear
* High-top
* Hiking shoes
* Hnyat-phanat
* Huarache
* Hwa
* Jazz shoe
* Jelly shoes Jelly shoes
* Jika-tabi
* Jipsin
* Jutti
* Kitten heel
* Klomp
* Kolhapuri chappal
* Kung fu shoe
* Light-up shoes
* Loafer, see Slip-on
* Lotus shoes
* Mary Jane
* Mexican pointy boots
* Mojari
* Moccasin A soft-soled moccasin
* Monk shoe
* Motorcycle boot
* Mukluk
* Mule
* Multani Khussa
* Namaksin
* Okobo
* Opanak Opanaks
* Opinga
* Organ shoes
* Orthopaedic footwear
* Over-the-knee boot
* Oxford shoe
* Paduka Paduka
* Pampootie
* Patten
* Peep-toe shoe
* Penny loafer, see Slip-on
* Peranakan beaded slippers
* Peshawari chappal
* Pigache
* Platform shoe
* Plimsoll
* Pointinini
* Poulaine
* Pulhoer
* Racing flat
* Racing shoes
* Riding boots
* Rocker bottom shoe
* Roller shoe
* Rope-soled shoe
* Russian boot
* Sabot
* Saddle shoe
* Sailing boots
* Sandal Sandals held to the feet by both thong and straps.
** Coiled sewn
** Ho Chi Minh
** Saltwater
* Self-tying shoes
* Skate shoe
* Ski boot
* Slide
* Slingback
* Slip-on, or loafers Blue branded side-gusset slip-on shoes
* Slipper
* Sneakers
** Trail running shoes
* Snow boot
* Soccus
* Spectator shoe
* Spool heel
* Steel-toe boot
* Stiletto heel High-heeled shoes with a stiletto heel
* Tap shoes
* T-bar sandal
* Tiger-head shoes
* Träskor
* Toe shoe Toe shoe
* Tsarouchi
* Turnshoe
* Upanah
* Uwabaki
* Valenki
* Veldskoen
* Venetian-style shoe Venetian loafers
* Waders
* Walk-Over shoes
* Waraji
* Water shoe
* Wedge
* Wellington boot
* Wholecut
* Winklepicker
* Wörishofer
* Wrestling shoe
* Xiuhuaxie
* Zori