History Of The Stiletto

[at9]

I don't think this article on the BBC website has been mentioned before in HHP.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140124-sex-on-legs-the-stiletto

 

In the same series of articles and of possible interest here. No mention of shoes:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150331-womens-clothes-for-men

[mtnsofheels]

Oh ya, I saw that one awhile ago too about the stilleto and the also clothes fo rmen, I may have mentioned that one about the clothes some where.

Good articles.

[Histiletto]

After reading the 2 articles about stilettos and androgyny, I don't know whether to jump for joy there are men and women blurring the gender line of fashion or be disgusted people are so brain-washed due to the gender theory promotion into thinking they can't attire with the items they prefer, because some other people don't consider particular items of materials, textures, styles, and/or colors appropriate for certain individuals to wear. These type of activities reminds me of the monkeys in a cage experiment, where the first group of monkeys were disciplined to stay in the cage. When the next group of monkeys were added to the first and tried to leave, the first group kept the new ones from leaving also. Now whether or not you think mankind evolved from apes, the situation men and women of the human race are in now, seems to imitate the caged monkey effect as individuals strive to satisfy the desires they have in presenting openly their attiring choices that differ from the norm of the day.

[Shyheels]

It is true that men have been rather ruthlessly hemmed in as far as fashion choices and footwear go, but it is equally true that men themselves have played a major, if not defining, role in doing the hemming.

Women have historically been willing to brave the slings and arrows of society when they wanted to break the mould - just look at the evolution of women's trousers and jeans over the course of the 20th century. From a handful of bold lady cyclists and suffragettes at the start of the 20th century to having the billion-pound fashion jeans industry being pretty much all about them by the end if it.

There have never been men in sufficient numbers bold enough to take a feminine fashion and make it male - even when the feminine fashion was once a male one, as heels used to be. Men have a much stronger 'pack' sense, and a huge reluctance to pay the cost of stepping outside the bounds.