This video makes an interesting argument - that the lack of strong shoes in the mediaeval period means people walked very differently to how we do now:
Dave, on that note, there's a history of male (including military) fashions being adopted by women and then being seen as effeminate and abandoned by men. Berets aren't worn much by men outside of the military, (epaulettes are a bit of an exception). High-heeled shoes were, I think, originally court shoes for men. Pink used to be the masculine colour a couple of centuries ago.
It's a bit like the fashion equivalent of S and Z. Both are used in British English but because the Americans only use Z, people assume that S = British, which isn't the case.
Shepherd I think would stride out - reading I think it was one of Jane Duncan's fictionalised books about her life in Scotland, WW1 to just after WW2 - there was a comment from a hillsman about how he hated cities because you couldn't get into your stride, forever dodging people and taking big steps and little steps.
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