Modern
shoes can't be imagined without a heel and for this invention we
are obliged to Egypt. True to say that it was been worn by bonds
and whom heels created a necessary foot rest that it was help them
to move on the loose ground.
In the Ancient Greece actors put on wooden or cork sandals with a platform
on the stage for increasing their height. In the medieval Europe where
streets rolled in dirt and sewage, were invented the boots – wooden
soles with leather belts. It was put on daily shoes on top and named a
sabot, and in the East such boots put on in a bath in order not to burn
feet about a hot floor. In Venice, since XV century, the woman of different
degrees put on very big platforms, sometimes more than 20 centimeters in
height and it was called hooves. The first finds of heels as a separate
detail of a sole which are propping up a heel, archeologists date XIV century.
At this time the nobility adored for hunting and riding. That the boots
didn't slide in a stirrup, it was invented new technology — they
started to thicken a sole under a heel, and then was invented also a heel.
Also there was another military reason for spreading boots with a heel:
foot soldiers had need for quality boots for long march, therefore cobbler
have started manufacture shoes on a thick sole, with a convenient heel.
As show archeological excavations, it was cut of unbroken pieces of wood
and put under a sole. On the top it was trimmed with a skin. So, shoes on heels for a long time were wearing only by men, women joined it later,
only in XVII century. Became more familiar with it, ladies had replaced
their practical functions into esthetic: in such boots the woman had imperial
bearing and spin seemed more direct, although it was difficult to hold
it, because the height of boots sometimes reached 20 centimeters, and socks
of shoes rested against the ground. Heels of boots were colored in different
colors depending on a fashion: blue, green, black. Red color which in the
countries of Europe characterized aristocracy had a special value. In the
end of a XVIII century In France red heel boots were wearing only by French
nobility at the king court. The history of it was permanently added by
new inventions. So, in the XVIII century was created "the French" heel,
or «a pigeon paw». It was incurved, and made optical illusion,
visually reducing distance between a sock of a shoe and a heel. In the
XX century a Stiletto heel was invented. It is unknown who exactly invented
it, but we know a name of the first person who has nailed a metal heeltap
on it. It was shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo. By his name was called a shoe
Museum in Florence.
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