Satin shoes are footwear or shoes made with satin and are considered as one of the most luxurious of luxury design footwear. Contrary to the popular misconception, satin is a weaving technique that features the production of fabrics with a minimum number of interlacings as well as a glossy finish on the surface of the material. This satin weaving technique originated in China and the term roth shoes originated in the Middle Ages referring to samite, a luxurious type of silk. In the past, products made using satin woven fabrics were normally worn only by those of royal blood due to the cost of the fabrics.
The actual materials used to make satin shoes as well as all satin weaved products include silk, nylon, polyesters and other filament fibers. However, there has been much debate on what satin actually is. And there are two camps, those that insist on the use of silk and those that don't. Traditional satin made products were in fact made of silk. Apart from that, when the satin weaving technique is used to produce fabrics from short staple yarns like cotton and rayon, the product is referred to as sateen.