{"id":7872,"date":"2013-01-27T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7872"},"modified":"2013-01-27T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T14:00:56","slug":"the-history-of-high-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-history-of-high-heels\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Of High Heels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7873\" alt=\"History of High Heels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cute-fashion-heels-high-heels-love-Favim.com-4474271.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cute-fashion-heels-high-heels-love-Favim.com-4474271.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cute-fashion-heels-high-heels-love-Favim.com-4474271-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no reason why men couldn&#8217;t start wearing high heels (again) writes William Kremer in his history of high heels. Highlights from the article include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High heels originally became popular around the 1500s when Persian members of the cavalry wore them.<\/li>\n<li>If it seems like high heels aren&#8217;t designed for day to day activities like walking it&#8217;s because they weren&#8217;t. They came in handy in the military where archers could use them to balance in the stirrups on their horses to stabilize themselves and aim their bows at the enemy.<\/li>\n<li>Europe then had a wave of interest in all things Persian and soon European men started sporting high heels as well.<\/li>\n<li>King Louis XIV of France is famous for his high-heeled shoe collection. He was likely fond of them in part because of the valuable inches in height they added to his short stature.<\/li>\n<li>In the 1630s women began to adopt the fashion of men, and thus started wearing high heels as well.<\/li>\n<li>During the Enlightenment function was elevated over style, and men traded in their high heels for flats. 50 years later women followed them.<\/li>\n<li>The heel came back into fashion during the 1800s when pornographers started photographing their models with them. This is why high heels have erotic connotations to this day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The entire history is fascinating, extremely well written, and goes into much more detail. You should read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-21151350\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-21151350\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no reason why men couldn&#8217;t start wearing high heels (again) writes William Kremer in his history of high heels. Highlights from the article include: High heels originally became popular around the 1500s when Persian members of the cavalry wore them. If it seems like high heels aren&#8217;t designed for day to day activities like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cute-fashion-heels-high-heels-love-Favim.com-4474271.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7881,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions\/7881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}