Romans weren't the only ones to wear fashionable shoes. Archeologists excavating graves in the Altai mountains found an even older, very well-preserved pair of shoes. These bedazzled boots were worn by a Scythian woman around 300–290 BCE. They are made of leather, textile, tin (or pewter), and gold. The shoes are in exceptionally good condition because of the low temperatures in the region, so the ground in which they were buried was frozen.

The condition of the sole sparked theories as to how the beads and the crystals are still perfectly in place. Some say that the shoes were made specifically for the burial; others speculate that it belonged to a high-ranking woman who didn't have to walk a lot, or it was just the Scythians' lifestyle to spend most of their time on a horse. A more interesting theory proposed by historians is that the soles of the Scythians' shoes were an important accent of their attire, as they were visible to others while sitting in front of a fire and socializing.