Quoting%20commentary for Shabbat 119:13

באותה שעה אמרו אל יצא אדם בסנדל המסומר אי הכי בחול נמי ליתסר מעשה כי הוה בשבת הוה ביום טוב לישתרי אלמה תנן

interpreted it before R. Joseph: Since a woman parts her hair with it, [it is ornamental]. What is it fit for on the Sabbath?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When parting the hair is forbidden. ');">¹²</span> — Said Raba: It has a golden plaque at the end thereof:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One end was needle-like while the other was flattened and broadened into a plaque. ');">¹³</span> on weekdays she parts her hair therewith, [while] on the Sabbath she lets it lie against her forehead.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' She thrusts the needle end into her wig, letting the other end come over her forehead as an ornament. ');">¹⁴</span> <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. A MAN MAY NOT GO OUT WITH A NAIL-STUDDED SANDAL, NOR WITH A SINGLE [SANDAL]. IF HE HAS NO WOUND ON HIS FOOT;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Either because he may be suspected of carrying the other sandal under his garments (T.J.), or because he may evoke ridicule, which will cause him to remove and carry it. But when one foot is wounded, there is no fear of this. V. Rashi. ');">¹⁵</span> NOR WITH TEFILLIN, NOR WITH AN AMULET, IF IT IS NOT FROM AN EXPERT, NOR WITH A COAT OF MAIL [SHIRYON], NOR WITH A CASQUE [KASDA], NOR WITH GREAVES [MEGAFAYYIM]. YET IF HE GOES OUT, HE DOES NOT INCUR A SIN-OFFERING.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because these are garments in war, hence do not rank as burdens. ');">¹⁶</span> <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. A NAIL-STUDDED SANDAL: What is the reason? — Said Samuel: It was at the end of the period of persecution.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So Jast. Rashi: There were fugitives from persecution. [The reference is generally held to be to the Syrian persecutions under Antiochus Epiphanes; v. Berliner, Hoffmann Magazin XX, p. 123]. ');">¹⁷</span> and they [some fugitives] were hiding in a cave. They proclaimed, 'He who would enter, let him enter,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As he could see beforehand whether the enemies' spies were on the watch. ');">¹⁸</span> but he who would go out, let him not go out.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For fear of spies, lest their whereabouts be disclosed. ');">¹⁹</span> Now, the sandal of one of them became reversed, so that they thought that one of them had gone out and been seen by the enemies, who would now fall upon them. Thereupon they pressed against each other,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Panic stricken, in order to flee. ');">²⁰</span> and they killed of each other more than their enemies slew of them. R. Ila'i b. Eleazar said: They were stationed in a cave when they heard a sound [proceeding] from above the cave. Thinking that the enemy was coming upon them, they pressed against each other and slew amongst themselves more than the enemy had slain of them. Rami b. Ezekiel said: They were stationed in a Synagogue, when they heard a sound from behind the synagogue. Thinking that the enemy was coming upon them, they pressed against each other and slew amongst themselves more than the enemy had slain of them. In that hour it was enacted: A man must not go out with a nail-studded sandal.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' According to Samuel, because this had led them astray. According to R. Ila'i b. Eleazar and Rami b. Ezekiel, because the carnage had been wrought by their nail-studded sandals. ');">²¹</span> If so, it should be forbidden on weekdays too? — The incident happened on the Sabbath.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The interdict was felt to be in memory of the disaster rather than through actual fear of its repetition, and therefore confined to the Sabbath. ');">²²</span> Then let it be permitted on Festivals! Why did we learn:

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