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The high heel shoes attribute their existence to Catherine of Medici from Paris, who wore it owing to her short stature and became a part of the fashion shortly after. These fashionable shoes enjoy a varied history in men and women.

Initially, men and women both wore high heel shoes for centuries. The lower class walked barefoot and people wearing them were mostly popular figures such as actors. They wore indicating their social status and tried to gain importance. The men heels were primarily worn in the courts. The modern fashion comes from Italian style ranging to 15 to 42 cm. 17th century brought a change stating that women wore high heel shoes to seduce and marry men. Later, Giovanni Casanova also declared his admiration for shoes that showed the beautiful legs of women.

The year 1791 brought a significant revolution when Napoleon banished high heel shoes attempting to illustrate equality. Regardless of Napoleonic code, Marie Antoinette in 1793 appeared wearing shoes of two inches to the scaffold. Once again in 1860s heels gained utmost popularity and the contraption of sewing machine bestowed with great varieties in high heel shoes. In fact, Victorians felt wearing them gave a symbolic curve to every woman. The late 19th century brought widespread popularity, but in 1930s the western shoe with heels received favorable response. In early 1960s, miniskirt came into full form and the stilettos emerged into fashion enhancing the look of legs. Stiletto heels are long and thin varying in lengths from 1 to 2 inch, and are especially for women.

Even the tennis shoes came high heeled. The heelless high heel shoes allowed women to wear all types of shoes. Though, it seemed to be the height of eccentricity, the gesture of having an assortment of fashion choices could not be ignored. Women love wearing shoes matching their outfit and appreciate wrapping their delicate and elegant feet. Especially, the high heel shoes certainly bring compliments as they look empowered and highly confident.

High heel shoes indicate fashionable footwear that raises the feet of the wearer significantly. The footwear creates an aesthetic feeling as a person appears slender and tall. Today, they are obtainable in diverse styles and shapes such as pumps, tapered, stilettos, blocks, blade and wedge. Fashion icons regard heels above 8.5cm as high and consider anything below it as medium or low heel. It is noted that women only wear them, but the Cuban heels and cowboy boots are worn by men as well. Initially, raised heels lead to slipping forward while riding, but over decades it became stylized.

France later created high heel shoes ideal for men and women. This trend declined during the French revolution, but resurfaced in 1800s. The shoes went through several changes such as the late 70s preferred low heels, while the late 80s and early 90s were happy with high heels. In this period, the heels shape changed from 70s with block to 90s with tapered and 80s and post 2000 with stilettos. Recently, the shoes heights vary from 4cm (kitten heel) to 10 cm (spike or stilettos). The extreme high heel shoes are available in 13 cm and have aesthetic reasons to be worn. However, they cannot be worn practically everyday.

High heel shoes are popular among women as it adds height to the wearer and give an aesthetic appeal. It is also believed to alter the angle of the foot and also enhances the calves shape.

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French Revolution Daily Life

Question: ppl PLEASE i really need help and fast!!!!!?

what were the changes in daily life during the french revolution

i would love either in your own words of if u give me a good like to some info on it cuz i cant really find any good info 4 that and i really need it!!!!!!

please and thanx

(10 to best answer)

Answer: you'd be better off googling or wikipedia-ing it, but here are a few tidbits:

you should probably know why the french rev'n happened; 1) the people were starving and dying of sickness and famine and the monarchy did absolutely nothing to help. 2) King Louis financed a bunch of wars bringing france to the edge of bankruptcy on top of everything else

there were two groups during the period that fought on opposite sides during the revolution: the jacobins and the girondins.

i forget exactly which is which but in know that people hung out in salons a lot and discussed the revolution and politics. the girondins tried to get the king to reform. the jacobins were more radical and wanted bloodshed i think.

Royalists were hated by all. royalists were people who were still for the king despite the inefficiency of that monarchy. you know all about the guillotine of course. people looked at it as the "common razor", which was an important idea in a time when people were trying to wrest power from kings and queens in favor of a democracy or republic. the guillotine put all people of all classes on the same level, cuz when they were executed, both noble and commoner were killed the same way and were equal.

also, in the language, i heard from my history teacher (a while ago so i don't remember all of it) you weren't allowed to "vouvoyer" or address someone with respect "vous". it's another way of saying "you" but to someone older or someone you don't know. it was considered a very royalist statement to vouvoyer someone and it came to the point that people were actually assaulted for saying it. you were supposed to address everyone as "tu".

well, that's about all i've got. good luck with the rest of the research.

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French Revolution Key Events

Question: i have a report on George Washington’s Indian affairs during his presidency, does anyone know what these are?

links w/ info would be very much appreciated… i need to find information on George Washington’s Indian Affairs… which i really dont know what my teacher is talking about at all, so its kinda hard. It would have been a lot nicer if i got like, GW and the Revolution, or maybe, the French and Indian War. But no, i have to find stuff on the indian affairs??? anyway, im supposed to figured out the effect this issue had on the administration, the key persons involved, the effect on domestic and international policy, and also a brief history of the event or run up to the event….

Answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington#French_and_Indian_War

this is a good site to go to right here.

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Marie Antoinette Daily Life

Question: What are some historical fictional books that tell the daily lives of 17th century elite?

Marie Antoinette, Duchess of Devonshire, etc/

Answer: Within the last couple of years, Robert McCammon has written several books that tell about the end of the 1600s and early 1700s that cover the lower class and upper classes in Virginia, and early New York. Speaks the Nightbird (2002) and Queen of Bedlam (2007). Long fictional book that qualify as exclusively historical fiction with an early law clerk solves crimes and has many encounters with all different phases of the social classes that make the book period piece very thorough and fascinating. Take a look at a library or start reading after obtaining from a book store…..

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Marie Antoinette Costume History

Question: marie antoinette?

did that move suck big time? i hear its not really about the history at all. is it worth watching just to see the costumes?

Answer: It was ok the costumes were pretty cool but its not the best movie in the world thru out the whole movie she is just pretty much just trying to get her husband to sleep with her.

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