"Well, if the earthquake happens, I've got my steel-toed shoes and some rope, and we'll get down a mountain." Stevie Nicks

"Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plan to trip my feet." Psalm 140:4  

The earliest footwear was cobbled from what was handy: grasses, leaves, branches tied around the feet with vines.