Inch Up Your Footwear
As fashion moves into the genderless, heels and menswear go hand-in-hand to create and elevate even the most basic look.
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Image: Maison Margiela
For the last three centuries, high heels have been widely regarded as a women’s style. Seen everywhere from runways to daily work attire, adding a few inches to a woman’s height is often considered the key to tying an ensemble together. They’re beloved for their leg-lengthening effects, high-fashion implications and general elegance. However, as designers continue to blend menswear and womenswear, the gendered lines around clothing and accessories have lightened in their severity. More and more men have been spotted sporting the lifted shoe. By adopting footwear that has become such an iconic representation of feminine fashion, their choice is often dubbed “ground-breaking” or “gender bending”. But funnily enough, the origination of high heels began specifically for men.
The earliest known style of heels date back to the 15th century, when Persian soldiers wore heeled boots to help keep their feet in their stirrups as they rode on horseback. Then, during the 17th century, King Louis XIV wore red heels to symbolise his power and wrote an edict stating that only nobility could wear heels. Acting as a symbol for status, power, and military prowess, heels were a common occurrence for men up until the late 1700s, when it fell out of fas...
The post Inch Up Your Footwear appeared first on LUXUO.
Image: Maison Margiela
For the last three centuries, high heels have been widely regarded as a women’s style. Seen everywhere from runways to daily work attire, adding a few inches to a woman’s height is often considered the key to tying an ensemble together. They’re beloved for their leg-lengthening effects, high-fashion implications and general elegance. However, as designers continue to blend menswear and womenswear, the gendered lines around clothing and accessories have lightened in their severity. More and more men have been spotted sporting the lifted shoe. By adopting footwear that has become such an iconic representation of feminine fashion, their choice is often dubbed “ground-breaking” or “gender bending”. But funnily enough, the origination of high heels began specifically for men.
The earliest known style of heels date back to the 15th century, when Persian soldiers wore heeled boots to help keep their feet in their stirrups as they rode on horseback. Then, during the 17th century, King Louis XIV wore red heels to symbolise his power and wrote an edict stating that only nobility could wear heels. Acting as a symbol for status, power, and military prowess, heels were a common occurrence for men up until the late 1700s, when it fell out of fas...
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