Question about high heels?
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Saturday, December 21, 2019 8:21 PM
How do you feel about guys wearing high heels?
What about a guy-guy FRMOS with one of them in high heels?
More men are wearing stilletos:
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Men in high heels:
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Elizabeth Semmelhack, author and senior curator at Toronto's Bata Shoe Museum, says she has yet to unravel that mystery – the exact origin remains to be discovered. What's clear, however, is that high heels weren't a European invention. Heeled footwear only emerged in Western Europe around the turn of the 17th century, but had been worn for centuries prior to the 1600s throughout Western Asia.
"Evidence for early Western Asian heels, as far back as 10th century Persia, suggests a strong relationship to horseback riding and may have been connected to the innovation of the stirrup," says Semmelhack in an email. "The stirrup profoundly changed horseback riding and in particular made military campaigns on horseback more effective, as it enabled riders to steady themselves and dramatically improved the effective use of weapons such as the lance and bow and arrow. The heel seems to have been a further development of this technology, as it allowed the wearer to hook his feet in the stirrups, better anchoring him to his steed."
High heels were originally meant for men:
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Before high-heeled shoes were the must-have item of the fashion-conscious upper crust, they were imported from an unexpected source: a group of horse-riding Persian diplomats. In 1599, this envoy came to France in search of allies in the war against the Ottoman Empire. They started in Moscow and ended in Lisbon, and where they went, people took notice. Specifically, they took notice of their heightened heels, which were a technological innovation that kept their riders secure in the stirrups. By the time of Louis XIV in France (1643–1715), there was a fascination with all things Persian.
Men wore them first:
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