ON THE MOO-VE
Enforcing Prohibition in the US was hard enough without ‘cow shoes’
You’re a bootlegger in the US during Prohibition - or perhaps you make moonshine to meet the never-ending demand for alcohol. Either way, you need to cover your tracks to and from illegal distilleries hidden in the countryside. What do you do? Make new, non-human tracks instead. With a special addition to a shoe - a metal strip with wooden blocks cut to look like hooves - it was possible to make a footstep look like a cow’s. The jig was up, however, when a pair of ‘cow shoes’ were found and reported in the newspapers in 1922.