Talk:Boot/@comment-2602:306:32EB:400:29B0:7CA5:F22D:BF09-20171014184435/@comment-3268952-20171014191815

They're "boots", not shoes.

And there actually are heavy-weighting shoes also, like wooden ones. But nowadays you're mainly just going to encounter "Steel-toe-boots" in everyday-life:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel-toe_boot