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French Fashion Icon

Cone, wedges, wedges, kitten or puppy, what style, high heels a classic feature of women’s fashion. As we strive together to fight foot pain, risk of falls and Dodge grilles and the soft grass, we never stop to consider the history of this most representative pieces of shoes?The origin of high heels is controversial, although many believe it originated in ancient Egypt, where the use of shoes was a sign of power and wealth. The first precursor of what we today as stilettos were discovered in an Egyptian tomb, dated to about 1000 BC.According to legend, the high heels of the European aristocracy in the 16th century by Catherine de ‘Medici brought to Paris. Fiance, the Duke of Orleans, who later became King of France, pulled the baby of 15 years, Catherine slippers with heels two centimeters of its increase in stature and respect.Until 1850, people had in fact also slipped noble and “well heeled” in England and in France with high heels sometimes up to five centimeters. There was a past fraught with danger for the French, but as it is higher than that found in high heels worn by the king was thrown in jail … or worse.Fortunately, the men faded into obscurity, while in the wake of the French Revolution as an ideal of equality of traditions took over the nobility and privileged. Together with the loss of men at his heels, the women disappeared. Not everyone was happy with this course, the queen of France Marie Antoinette supposedly went to the guillotine carries two-inch heels.Heels back to popularity in the late 1800′s and Century 20. In 1920 encouraged the rising edge, decorative s shoes with high heels, so the introduction of the Louis heel in Western culture. The postwar period has seen a revival of fashion in the West, in part by the French fashion icon Christian Dior introduced. The sexy shoe with slim heel, was known as the Stiletto.High Heels – apparently to give the impression of a long, thin legs – were feminists in the 1960 crititsied as a form of oppression, because of this problem in the era of disco next decade has been forgotten, where stars such as John For Travolta, wearing platforms in Saturday Night Fever.Love them or hate them, it seems that her high heels to stay and there are perhaps only a revolution Australia never see them losing their popularity once again.

 

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