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The Museum of London has a series of large photos displayed in the foyer. These show members of staff dressed in various costumes from the museum's collection and placed in a setting from a different period. This photo shows a prosperous merchant from around 1750 with a car from the 1930s(?). Note the clearly visible heel. Apologies for lousy phone camera picture taken in relatively poor light.

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Heels were invented at the end of the 16rh century to stop feet from slipping through the new fangled iron stirrups. Up until then shoes were completely flat with no heel at all like ballet slippers. This new invention lead to a new fashion and heels for noblemen got higher and thinner each season though the technology to make stilettos was some way off. There are pictures of aristocrats wearing galoshes so that their heels won't sink into the ground.

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Hopefully, from the 21st century, historians will also depict men wearing stilettos as part of the main fashion trend.

I'll go along with that. Many of us here are trying make that depiction a reality with our public heeling. only time will tell.

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I can see the costume with the heels which is period correct. Maybe I'm missing something, but that costume doesn't fit with the year of car unless the owner is taking his old car to a costume ball for the night. Cheers--- Dawn HH

High Heeled Boots Forever!

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That was the idea. Taking the costume out of historical context to show how irrelevant the costume would be in any period other than its own. It's like Shakespear plays done with modern costumes and settings, Macbeth set in a political party headquarters, The Merchant Of Venice set on Wall Street and the Taming Of The Shrew set in a corporate headquarters...

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Hopefully, from the 21st century, historians will also depict men wearing stilettos as part of the main fashion trend.

But hopefully, not merely as an historical anecdote, but as an ongoing fashion choice among men!

Those who really care about us don't make a fuss about what we wear. Those who make a fuss about what we wear really don't care about us.

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