What is the origin of high heels?

Four origins said:

1, the origin of China's high-heeled shoes, the origin of the time with the Ming Dynasty, when the high-heeled shoes are in the heel at the heel to install a high 4 to 5 centimeters high or so of the heel, the outside is wrapped in silk. Now this kind of high heels has almost become history.

2. It is said that western high heels were invented for the French emperor Louis XIV, because Louis XIV didn't look very tall, so he asked the court shoemaker to add a high heel to the bottom of his shoes. After that, this style soon spread among the nobles, so the tradition of wearing high heels began among the nobles.

3, high-heeled shoes actually originated in the earlier time, because the West at that time the street above the particularly dirty, often can see some feces. So the aristocrats invented high heels to prevent these dirty things will clothes to dirty.

4, high-heeled shoes were originally invented for war, European knights in order to better enough to fasten the stirrups, so they designed such a shoe.

Cultural trends:

The pursuit of beauty is the instinct of mankind, and the pursuit of fashion and emulate the envy of their own is also the nature of many people. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that the East Shi knit the brows and followed the footsteps of Handan. Lack of aristocratic material basis for women in wearing high heels will undoubtedly be different according to the different circumstances of the life of each person has a different degree of pain, high heels is not just an external choice of clothing only, high heels have its own language, high heels itself is a culture.

The most important period in the history of high-heeled shoes, early high-heeled shoes due to the manufacturing technology and materials used in the limitations of the heel can only be caused by the funnel shape, that is, the heel from the bottom of the shoe began to narrow, to the bottom and then expand. Although the heel could be developed into a straight one, it still lacked the beauty of lines. Until the 50's steel nail technology reformed the high heels, designers can design today's ladies love and hate the pointed thin heel.