Heeled shoes. They are elegant, mark style and give the female legs that unique appeal not exempt from a certain sacrifice.Shoes Mary Jane , Pumps , the always daring and infallible «Stilettos» , only suitable for connoisseurs, or the beautiful Peep toe or platform shoes, through which, we gain more height and a little more "apparent comfort." There are several types of things you see, incredible colors and materials, suggestive shapes and are designed, in essence, to make women more attractive.Remember also what the experts in this type of footwear:
A shoe with less than 6 centimeters is considered a «low heel». If it is between 6 and 8.5 centimeters then we are facing a «Medium heel». For all those who go beyond 8.5 centimeters, they will be accepted as authentic « high heels».
Many of our readers may be faithful devotees of the stylish heel shoes, those of more than 8.5 centimeters.And if you are a man, you may not know that there was a time in which also the male gender pike on his authentic legs heels. We are sure you would love to know more about this topic...will you join us?
Brief history of heel shoes
Although it is suspected that the heel shoe had its origin in the fifteenth century , there are some artistic testimonies of Ancient Egypt in which, we have already noticed some men and women wearing high heels.We repeat, "men and women." Yes, but in fact it is precisely about the fifteenth century when it becomes almost essential that the male footwear have the necessary heels so that the foot fits better in the horse stirrups. The world of horse riding n and heels have always been intimately united, and here lies precisely their origin.
They are years in which the use of these animals is basic, so, so that the maneuvers are more comfortable specific footwear are designed for it We have only to remember the classic boots, always finished in a discreet heel that all cowboy looked in the past and also in the present.And a sample of the ancestors of our current heels we have in some drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci, there where we see how men rode their horses with sharp heels.
The heel shoes were attached to the male world, as we can see.so to speak go viril.But the next step was taken when it was discovered that this type of footwear stylized the figure .It was therefore inevitable that celebrities such as Catalina de Medici, wanted to wear them in his own wedding.And even more, in 1660 an illustrious shoemaker named Nicolas Lestage made a wonderful gift to his king by offering him a risky and attractive pair of shoes.And who was his king? Luis XIV. The fashion was thus in all this courtly atmosphere, even becoming slight variations according to the personality that wore them.In this way, Madame de Pompadour, for example, gave name precisely to a line of heels called, obviously, «pompadour heels» .
But what about the famous Stiletto? Such and risky design is due to an Italian merchant and designer named Giacomo Pirandelli, baron of "Styletto,". It was his mind who devised a precious "torture" that few women have been able to resist since so.
The day when men stopped wearing heels
Now we know that they were men the first to wear heeled shoes.In the Middle East, for example, all men used them, they were part of a good horsemanship for the fighters of Persia.they clung to their stirrups and the heel thus allowed them to be able to hold on to the animal better and in the meantime, to be able to use their weapons.The heel shoe thus granted a manly air , and that image is what they had of themselves same characters as Louis XIV himself, but what happened then? That the wealthy classes also began to wear high heels, and that could not be.Louis XIV signed an edict stating that only members of his court could wear shoes with high heels and red .And the higher the better, since one of the best ways to have social status was through impractical customs. Logic.
But it was at the end of the 17th century when things began to change.Fashions marked that heels of men should be shorter and more square.While women's footwear was already more slender and curved.It was the time when men's clothing was losing the classic feminine attributes, gradually reaching the time when the masculinity was linked to more sober, darker and more serious dress.High or sharp heels were a thing of the past. In 1740, high heels were definitely seen as something vulgar and effeminate ...An image that we keep until today, although who knows how far the cano can take us n fashion in future years….
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