When out sightseeing, we found those Lapp shoes in a store in a small town just about 70 km from the Swedish capital Stockholm. The Sami people from Lappland (northern Sweden) did wear those traditional shoes, therefor the name.

Living up in the north of Sweden with cold winters, those Lapp shoes made of the skin of the reindeer leg was a necessity of course, not only for the reindeer herders.

There are fur also under the shoe sole, cut in the middle so that the hair goes in different direction and makes them less slippy. The shoes were filled with shoe hay to make them really warm.

The use of Lapp shoes goes back way in time, maybe no one knows how far back. I found a mention of Lapp shoes in a 1891 issue of the Swedish tourist association!!!

I have heard that they have become trendy again…

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