anygunanywhere wrote:CoffeeNut wrote:anygunanywhere wrote:CoffeeNut wrote:Some of y'all might really lose your minds if you knew that high heels were originally made for men.
Ummm, there is a difference between a riding heel on a man's boot and a spike heel on the wife's dress shoe.
This is very true today but the original high heels, that started the trend, and were very much unisex were created for men.
BBC
Right. And as the article points out tall heels were developed for men to aid their warrior bad self on horseback. Quite manly. I'm gonna go put on my Tony Llamas.
I'm not disagreeing that there is a huge difference between a riding heel and a modern woman's high heel but the article I linked to points out that once men started wearing heels for horseback/military purpose women started wearing the exact same things because that was the trend of the day. Then male aristocrats started wearing them and turned them into impractical shoes and women started doing the exact same thing. The only difference is that once they became so impractical that they weren't worth the effort to wear; men stopped wearing them and women carried on. So while the shoes may be drastically different today they were created for men and without the military need women probably wouldn't be fawning over $3,000 heels I can't pronounce.
