Black dress and shoes - in the hands of Coco Chanel, it looked like causing minimalism. Genealogy of this indispensable attribute of women's wardrobe goes far back in history. Catherine de Medicis was wearing heels for her wedding to the Duke of Orleans in 1533, by launching a fashion that was popular at the French court until the Revolution.
With regard to more recent times, Jacqueline Kennedy 12 pairs of shoes with heels every three months at the Rene Mancini.
However, ladies and first ladies prefer low heel. High heels and stilettos have always been a symbol of seduction. Japanese courtesans and Chinese concubine went to high clogs, high heels and Turkish odalisques did escape from the harem impossible. But with the advent of the 50s studs every woman has the ability to create hot sexy image with shoes.
However, to work in high heels do not resemble. The legendary two-tone model by Chanel low heels was very popular in the 50s. She again emerged three decades later, when the waistline has become overpriced, and shoes became the semantic center of the dress.
Heels played a role in the movie. "High heels raised my career to new heights," - said Marylin Monroe, which is said to have worn heels of varying heights to emphasize their swaying gait. After another blonde, Catherine Deneuve wore shoes from Rogier Vivier in the film "Belle de Jour", the designer has sold 200,000 pairs of this model. But perhaps the most famous in the movie shoes - a pair of ruby Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz." One of the eight pairs made for the filming of this movie, was sold at auction Christie's for more than 650 thousand dollars.