Why Do Women Wear These Crazy High Heels?
The Heelstory
If you think high heels were invented for women, you should know that they actually started with men.
According to the curator of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, shoes with a pointed heel and a sloping pitch were first worn by men as riding boots in 9th-century Persia.
During the Renaissance period, women wore high platforms stacked heavily at the toe called chopines. They were said to rise about eight inches high and were worn in the sheer delight of displaying family wealth. These chopines later became a trend to prostitutes in Florence and Sicily.
In the 1500s, the high-heeled men's riding boot was revived by Queen Elizabeth who "acted" as a man. In the early 1700s, shorter heels started to become popular with women. By the time of the Second World War, heels started soaring higher with the discovery of using metal rods on shoes to maintain a strong and narrow structure.
Today, heels just keep on evolving as they get higher and more pointed or rounded, according to the crazy trend that echoed their history of glamour, power, oppression, sexiness, and contradiction to accepted morality.
So much was our love for heels so that designers are forever coming up with bold ideas to create high heels that would especially help women feel sexy and liberated.
Lookie at these crazy Alexander McQueen's 10-inches heels, the highest footwear to strut down the Paris runway this season:
With women getting crazy over the latest high heels, it's becoming common to hear shoe designers fighting over trademark issues.
Alexander McQueen is suing Steve Madden for allegedly copying this Faithful bootie:
Women just love to wear shoes that are impossibly high, uncomfortable, difficult, and dangerous to walk in and an economic professor provides this answer: "Taller people earn more, for example, and command greater attention in social settings. And hence the attraction of high heels."
Heels injure our feet, knees, and back but we still wear them. We simply love the way they look and we love to play with our height (and our character) every now and then.
posted by Maggie's Nest at
10/13/2009
7 Comments:
wow, those are high.
How can they?
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I have to say... As a woman, it really is a pain in the butt to wear these, but it completes the look!
However, I do believe that 10inches are a bit too crazy...
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The one in the middle looked fun.
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