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skin or leather

Leather

Tanned skin of an animal, for example as used for clothing.

Didn't medieval shoes have soles and didn't they wear out very soon (NL)?

Medieval shoes had merely a thin sole. To prevent this from wearing out too fast, but also in order to prevent the feet from getting wet, people wore wooden shoes called "trip". These are a kind of wooden slippers which could be worn over the shoe. Experiments show that such shoes are worn out after a couple of months. Probably the medieval people then bought a new pair or had the old ones fixed.