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Ch 1: Men's high heels
Men wore high heels before women did. They were invented to make soldiers on horseback more effective. This board features high heeled shoes for boys men…
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"The fashion for slap-soles began in the 1630s when men started to slip their high-heeled riding boots into flat soled mules as a means of keeping their heels from sinking in the mud. Women soon adopted this practice as a fashion statement and before long shoemakers were making very feminine versions." - Collection of the Bata Shoe Museum
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"Boots worn by King Karl X Gustav. Swedish, c.1655." - Collection of the Bata Shoe Museum
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"William II, Prince of Orange and Princess Henrietta Mary Stuart, daughter of Charles I of England by Anthony van Dyck, 1641." - Collection of the Bata Shoe Museum
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"English, late 17th or early 18th century. Mules, or backless shoes, were popular for men as a form of footwear worn around the house." - Collection of the Bata Shoe Museum
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"Collection of the Bata Shoe Museum, P90.201. Probably French, mid-17th century. This shoe was probably made in the middle of the 17th century for a boy. The stacked leather heel was painted red to convey the socio-political privilege and status of the wearer." - Collection of the Bata Shoe Museum
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Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe, by Elizabeth Semmelhack
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A man's high-heeled shoe, date unknown
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"A men's 17th Century Persian shoe, covered in shagreen - horse-hide with pressed mustard seeds." - Collection of the Bata Shoe Museum
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"Louis XIV wearing his trademark heels in a 1701 portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud."
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"The 17th Century shoe on the left, which may have been French, was for a child - its stacked leather heel was painted red to suggest privilege."
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German soldiers and commanders of the 1600’s wear heels