As I have on occasions been known to before, I'm going to bring the French Revolution into this. The FR encouraged more than one fashion change, eg trousers rather than breeches, and the abandonment of hair powder. Did it have an effect on wooden footwear? In revolutionary France itself, wearing sabots (ie wooden shoes as worn by our redoubtable Pemberley policewoman) was a sign of being a good revolutionary. Did this have any effect on clog-wearing -- either for or against -- across the Channel?

Linden

who has worn clogs of the North of England leather/wood variety, and found them somewhat more comfortable than massage sandals, thongs, stilletto heels, and other instruments of foot torture.