A History Of Heels

By Christine Jackson


High heels happen to be about for a very lengthy time. Although they're not the epitome of elegance and womanly sexiness, they've been serving comparable purposed for men and for women for a lengthy time. High heeled shoes are portrayed in ancient Egyptian art in murals but the first history of heels goes back even further. The Egyptian depictions took location around 4000 BC and demonstrated images of people wearing high heels in murals on the walls of old tombs and temples. The shoes depicted were flexible pieces of leather held on the foot with leather lacings. The subsequent incarnation was a sort of platform sandal in 200 BC. These platform sandals had been known as kothorni.

They had high wood soles and were used primarily by tragic Roman actors. The kothorni had been used mainly to give the advantage of height. Subsequent, in 1000 CE the custom happened which the father of the bride in a Saxon wedding gives among the bride's shoes towards the groom in order to symbolize the transferring of authority from one man to another.

Shoes had been not usually simply for the purpose of beauty nor were they usually simply functional. In 1154 King Henry II of England began to wear a shoe with narrow and pointed toes. This began a trend among the courtiers even though it was rumored that Henry wore these shoes to be able to hide a deformation of his toes. In the 12th century CE, knights began to wear shoes with downward curving toes in order to maintain their feet in the stirrups of their horses.

Shoe toes had been a large point of contention. It came to a point in the early thirteenth century where the length and pointed extremes of one's shoes had been directly indicative of rank and prowess within a community. Kings and princes would wear shoes with toes as much as 30 inches long!

The women's' obsession with shoes does not start in any modern form until the mid 18th century with Madame de Pompadour and Marie Antoinette who start trends in their courts regarding footwear. Madame de Pompadour created popular shoes that were named following her "Pompadour". Sadly these shoes were extremely high and extremely narrow and too many ladies fainted at court because they tried to decrease the apparent size of their feet. Marie Antoinette went to her death in two inch heels less than 50 years later.




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