Women aren´t the first, who created the history of the high heels, however, they are the ones, who still wear them, which becomes a painful addiction to many of them. Starting from the beginning, Louis XI wore heels. After him, all the aristocrat men of 1600 started to do it to accentuate their status, as a privilege of the class, which didn´t have to work.
Later on, as high situated men also had to work, they changed heel into more practical and functional shoes. But the aristocrat women kept their heels as a legacy of their past power.
What brought the heels to the working class for the first time, was the pornography. The painters of 1900 started to paint nude pictures with the women wearing heels.
Heels evolved with the history from classical black pump into the heels we know nowadays from haut couture.
Inseparable element to heels is the cat walk. It´s function is to expose the heels as a wearable element of the dress. We get the stimulus of movement, which is also a very important thing in the modern culture.
The power of the heel is a feminine power. Active woman isn´t any kind of a ´worker´ in a traditional sense. The elements of power do not accord to physical strength.
The modern woman uses her image to expose her power. She wants to look perfect, everywhere she is, in any time and situation.
And for this image, some of the women are ready to do everything. `Stiletto lift´ is a botox injection which makes the foot feeling more comfortable in heels. Becoming always more popular last time, ´The Times´ says. ´Stiletto lift´ is a surgery, which makes the body of the woman more suitable in her clothes, to make her visual perfect,
particularly according to her career.
Photos: Heels by Alexander McQueen, Chanel
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