How did the heels? Bashny.Net

"I don't know who invented heels, but all women now their debtors!" — exclaimed one of the American cinema legend Marilyn Monroe. She chose to wear such shoes, because they found it a little to hide the curves of knees and short legs.


Recently the fashion world was celebrating the 500th anniversary shoes with heels. But really the fact of who and when invented, is not known. It is known, for example, that even the ancient Egyptians have worn shoes with increased heel. So it was easier to move on the field, especially in the groin, as the heel did a better footing. It is believed that the prototype of today's heel wore and vershnyky the Golden Horde: the leg is better held in a stirrup during riding. But then this kind of shoes was used not in this sense. Usual heel appeared not earlier than in the 16th century.


The first woman who tried on and started to wear elegant footwear, was Italian Caterina de ' Medici. She bought the heels for a very important reason – your own wedding. Shoes lifted the young 14-year-old bride-to-eight inches. Katerina looked then very gracefully and beautifully. But the Church on the segment not accepted heels, calling them "demonic weapon for seducing men." But noble ladies do not even think to listen to the saints and continued to wear heels.


In the 18th century shoes is simply a work of art. And the fashion is thin and high heel. Sometimes, the height of shoes was obscenely uncomfortable. Ladies often travelled, based on a small stick. In the mid-19th century was invented the heel-"drink", but 100 years later, in the 1950s, the Fashion House Dior has created a modern pin. The height then has become 7-8 inches.


But since then, heel height has varied even and 23 inches. The thickness of heel is also varied. And today it is very difficult to find a woman in the wardrobe which there is at least one pair of beautiful heels.

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