Crakow (shoe)

Crakows or crackowes were a style of shoes with extremely long toes very popular in the 15th century. They were so named because the style was thought to have originated in Kraków, then the capital of Poland. The term Poulaine, as in souliers a la poulaine, "Shoes in the Polish fashion", referred to the long pointed beak of the shoe, not the shoe itself.