JAPANESE CULTURE
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-02-28_DJ_12.jpg" target="_blank">Kelly of the Clue Crew goes shoe shopping at Tokyo, Japan's Tsukiji Market.</a>)  Traditional geta footwear has an ancestor called <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-02-28_DJ_12a.jpg" target="_blank">tageta</a>, which looked like snowshoes & were worn in the watery rice fields called these'
paddies