Cause this is where shoes come from. Shoes are the fruit of the telephone poles(though it’s actually a herb). They fall when they are ripe. But due to popular demand of different colors, shoes are often picked before maturity. Green ones are picked at the very earliest.
Stay away from the brown ones!
However, in those days, it was spelled “Shoo”. Very European.
Shoe picking is quite popular. People often mistake shoe pickers for homeless. The reason they are roaming the streets in all seasons, is because the shoe is an all-year crop.
The height during the 1930’s, when it became the occupation of the day – as droves of bankers and stock market investors went out to pick shoes – caused havoc on the market as there were too many pickers on the streets. The economy took years to salvage – as it wasn’t easy to make people stop picking shoes. It was a real hullabaloo, and the shoe pickers all thought that everyone else was really cheeky, and when the people was forced to work as bankers and brokers once again, they they became very sad; commonly known as the Great Depression.
In accordance with this – to mark a new start of a new era – they put an e to shoe instead. Though mostly cause it looked nifty.
As it in the old days was common to purchase them straight from the pickers, a commonly heard request in the street was “Shoes, please” or just the most common “Shoo!”; and you received your foot garment. With the depression though, the relationship between consumers and pickers went cold, which created the need for big retail stores instead. Nowadays when you say “Shoo” in an encounter with a shoe picker, they often turn and run, as they think you will make them work with finances.
This is also the reason that when something goes pear-shaped, one say’s “Oh shoo…”.
The more you know!