One of the most iconic pieces of the fashion world with its irresistible attraction and charm, the stiletto never left the woman alone in her freedom walk. He was also accused of objectifying women, and became a symbol of his power. He is very eager to regain his former status after quarantine.
At a time when comfort comes to the fore, athleisure wear marks the fashion world and with the pandemic, socializing, office life and night outs are minimized, it doesn’t seem like it will be easy to praise high heels. But in the rest of this article, you will not find information about sneakers, tracksuits, no longer wearable bras or oversized sweatshirts.
We turn the page believing that you’ve missed all these in the last period, and we reintroduce high heels to our lives by saying a little elegance, a little elegance, and a little sex appeal. besides, what do you think, it’s not a bad idea to get away from the realities that are “on the ground” for a while by rising, looking down, and keeping your feet off the ground; especially if it doesn’t seem possible to change the course… The pandemic seems to accompany us for now, so what are we still waiting for to reconcile with the clothing habits we continued while he was gone?
It is an undeniable fact that stilettos reveal the elegance of the legs when worn with skirts and dresses. Those who trust their legs and the ability to walk on heels can shorten their both length and raise their heels. Meanwhile, stilettos, when used with jeans and leggings, completely change the sports style and show how powerful the accessory is on its own.
No, we are not delusional, we are not denying the facts. In the past period, there has been a decline in the sales of high heels all over the world, and people have turned to flats and sneakers. And yes, fashion designers, who never turn their backs on social dynamics, acted in line with these facts and succeeded in presenting fashion-loving tracksuits to dressing gowns in the most “stylish” way.
But while the colorful, fun, cheerful, patterned and sexy pieces of the Autumn/Winter 2021-22 collections give psychological support to our souls who are badly bored in quarantine and replace them as happiness pills, they also remind us of what we forgot, show the dynamism of the street and let’s take action. says it’s late. It’s not hard to guess why Emily in Paris, starring Lily Collins, is so popular these days. Even though we can’t find a dressing room, we now want to see high heels rather than sneakers, and we want to take shelter in the dream-selling feature of fashion rather than dressing it.
While the exaggerated style of the 2000s, the return of fetish fashion and bold looks re-give us the instinct of dressing up, which we lost in the pandemic, iconic names of stilettos, from Louboutin to Alexandre Vauthier, from Aquazzura to Manolo Blahnik invites us to pursue “higher” desires. High heels or stilettos dating back to the 16th century; It has never been more desirable than it is today!
Electric scooters, the use of which has increased rapidly during the pandemic period, become popular during fashion weeks and accompany stylish styles. Choose shoes with a heel between 5-7 cm to balance your stilettos in this fast, practical means of transportation that prevents traffic jams.
A POWER STORY FROM ANCIENT AGE TO THE 70’S
High-heeled shoes, which have always been considered as the symbol of nobility, power and wealth, were called “chopines”, that is, clogs in the 16th century. Venice In , women used to wear their clothes so that they would not sink into the mud. In the 17th century, soldiers riding horses in Western Asia wore heels to place their feet well in the stirrups. When you read that in the 18th century, the French King Louis XIV wore red high-heeled shoes in his palace to emphasize his authority, you may think of French designer Christian Louboutin, who became famous for his iconic red-soled stilettos years later. We don’t know if they’re related, but Louboutin has said many times that he was inspired by the Paris cabaret and Crazy Horse dancers.
Although the discovery of high-heeled shoes dates back to the Antiquity, the history of stilettos, which we see today in fashion and style themed TV series such as Sex and the City and Emily in Paris, begins in the 1950s. Although the names of Salvatore Ferragamo, Andre Perugia and Roger Vivier are associated with the birth of stilettos, the real Roger Vivier created the stiletto by inserting a metal reed into the heel, it was Christian Dior’s II. Presenting the feminine and stylish clothing style of the “New Look”, which she signed after the absence of World War II, she completed Monsieur Dior’s legendary thin waist silhouette with these sexy and needle-heel shoes. In stiletto, which takes its name from a kind of fine-tipped Italian knife, new technologies have been tried so that all the weight does not press on the toes and the sole, the heels were initially produced at a height of five cm. Stilettos, which Ferragamo raises up to 12 cm, gain even more popularity in the 50s and 60s on the feet of celebrities such as Gina Lollobrigida, Ava Gardner and Marilyn Monroe as a symbol of femininity, sexiness and self-confidence.
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Author Caroline Cox in her book “Talon Aiguille”, the women who gave birth to the “Baby-boomer” generation and who were mostly defined by their domestic roles in these years, wore their aprons at night when they walked around the house with slippers. She writes that they take off their clothes and go out to their wives with their high heels, and that sexy heels free them from the status of housewife and domestic roles. After all, it’s not housework but sex in heels. In the 70s, behind the fact that feminists pooped heels, there were the ideas Cox wrote in her book, briefly the interpretation of heels as women’s submission to masculine desires.
Heeled shoes, which are thought to sexually objectify women and reduce them to “erotic” parts, are at the opposite poles of women’s liberation in the 70s, and are further devalued on the grounds that they are not suitable for health and restrict movement.
French designer Roger Vivier, who developed the thin and long heel in the 1950s and is the creator of today’s stilettos, decorated the shoes with stones, buckles, silk, tulle and velvet and turned them into rare jewelery
HEEL OR SNEAKERS, THE CHOICE IS YOURS!
High-heeled shoes, which the punk movement and Vivienne Westwood identified with rebellion, female power and protest spirit in the 70s, with the effect of the “power dressing” style that came to the fore in the 80s, get rid of the label of “erotic object”, which they were reduced to, and become female. She begins to be known as a self-confident woman who is as strong as she is, free to use her stilettos in her career life and / or to seduce her lover, and controls her sexuality by wearing whatever she wants. Stilettos, which became immortalized in Carrie Bradshaw’s style in the 1990s and 2000s in the TV series Sex and the City, become the representative of the young generation who are free in their choices, as Carrie feels sexy and beautiful in both styles by wearing her sneakers whenever she wants or her heels whenever she wants. . While Carrie Bradshaw gifted her crystal buckle satin fabric and pointed Manolo Blahnik stilettos as an iconic piece to fashion history, Christian Louboutin has already started to make women dream the most beautiful dreams with her red-soled shoes…
HEM MOOD’ IT RISES OUR HOPE AND US
Fashion dresses, but most of all, it makes you dream and gives happiness. Right now, we desperately need to dream and experience aesthetic pleasures. Fashion designers manage to add joy, color and excitement to the era we live in, with stilettos that attract attention with their magnificence, elevating a person’s mood at a glance, while at the same time “raising” him physically.
Although the pandemic has changed shopping habits, for example, the fact that the Christian Louboutin brand never regressed in success is proof that women never stop looking stylish, sexy and feminine. In addition, even though there is a pandemic, high heels, or stilettos as they are called, will never be erased from the agenda as a companion of women’s emancipation journey, with its rich history dating back to the 16th century, and its strong infrastructure . Stop being wiped out, they’re coming up with a thump and hitting the ground stronger today, when morale is on the ground.
We know that after crises such as the pandemic, where people are unhappy and introverted, the fashion world has returned to the stage with fun, stylish, sexy and striking trends. The unstoppable rise of high heels this season can be interpreted in this direction. In this period when sexy and eye-catching pieces such as long gloves and mini dresses come to the fore, don’t give up on high heels that instantly raise your mood.
Fall/Winter 2021-22 trends leading fetish wear, 2000’s fashion and flashy clothes; He also plays stilettos. From Balmain to Jimmy Choo, from Valentino to Aquazzura, with these colorful high art works they produce, they not only nursery the dreamy and playful side of the fashion world, they also write and will continue to write the history of sexuality, femininity, protest spirit and opposition.
Text: Selin Milosyan
Photographs: Getty Images Turkey, Retrieved from Imaxtree.com
ELLE TURKEY March 2022.
