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High heel shoes have quite a diverse and interesting history. They were actually first created as a rider's boot because a normal flat footed shoe would always fall out of the stirrups and a high heeled shoe would be able to catch into the stirrups and ensure that the rider would not always fall off of the horse, but have some sort of leverage when trying to stay on.
Even today, riding boots are still made this way with the higher heel and these are also the same as all cowboy boots that also have this look for the exact same reasons as cowboys also spend a great deal of time riding on horses and need the specialized shoes to ensure that they stay in place and have a good enough grip. In these earlier days, only men rode horses and so the high heel shoes were only seen to be worn by males, and slowly this became a fashion statement, where more and more men would be seen wearing these riding boots, although they were not themselves riders at all.
Women started to wear high heel shoes in around the time of 1533, when the Duke of Orleans's wife, who as extremely short in stature, asked a specialized cobbler to create some high heel shoes for her, so that she would seem a little taller in the company of others. This lady was very much in the public eye, so before long the fashion trend of women wearing high heel shoes took off, where many of these shoes were created for women to purchase wherever they could in all sorts of shoe stores. As time went on, men stopped wearing high heel shoes, and then it was just the women that wore them in all shapes and sizes as a fashion statement and to add to their overall sex appeal.
High heel shoes have changed over the years from platform heels to stiletto heels and wedge heels, all types have come in and out of fashion and then back in again, such as boots and then court shoes and also strappy sandals with a high heel. The reasons why women wear high heel shoes today are just for the way that they look and not at all for any type of practical reason, as there simply is none, especially as the heel has gotten higher and thinner over the decades.
Some women do not enjoy wearing high heels because they find them difficult to walk in, but most women have been wearing high heel shoes for years and years and so find them completely comfortable and easy to walk in and would not consider going out on the town or to a nightclub wearing flat shoes. Besides for making one look a great deal taller than you actually are, you will also get the appearance of more defined calf muscles and longer legs.
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