High Heels Are Sexy Cool - Ask Adidas!
There are three types of persons when it comes to shoes…
Those who wear high heels, those who do not wear them… and then there are those who follow every faddish shoe style except high heels.
Why only three… well it’s basically an Aristotelian attempt to categorize those who wear shoes and the impact high heels have had on our society. (Hope you’re no bored yet!)
However you categorize it though, it does break down into some distinct groups. There was a time when to look fashionable and chic, a woman had to wear a good pair of heels. However, the 60’s came along and we as a society emerged from Marilyn Monroe, Jane Masnfield and Barbara Stanwyck (even Bettie Page) who all wore gorgeous heels into the era of hippies and flower children and the age of the flat soles.
This followed quickly with the woman’s movement who identified the offending high heel as a male oppressor and a tool to objectify the female form. True that went on but it’s hardly the high heel’s fault: the high heel was just standing around looking sexy and got caught in the cross-fire.
But the high heel was clever and went underground, seeking the safety of the fetish crowd and covert fashionista’s in Europe. It would survive to live another day. By doing so, it also covered itself with another cloak of ambiguity… the dark world of fetishism.
The high heel was cool again. Why?
Because as even Gwen Stefani, Jean Paul Gauthier and Vivienne Westwood soon realized… the most innovative fashion designs, the one’s who wore clothing and shoes to their dangerous edges, were the fetish crowds… “My props to the fetish crowd”.
The high heel emerged even sexier and more sultry than if it had stayed a household fashion item… I mean, if you want suburbia to wear high heels on a daily basis - that is a quick way to kill a sexy cool.
Okay. Now I’m sounding all “Sex in the City” and that wasn’t what I was going for. But you hear what I’m saying?
So it was this running through my head when I came across and interesting website about Adidas Running Shoes and some videos they did… and lo’ and behold there is Jenna Jameson in one video wearing not running shoes, but white platform pumps with a one and half inch plat and what seems to be seven inch heels. No running shoes. Even Adidas knows when to use the high heel!
Check it:
http://www.r255g255b255.net
It was an eye opener.
So let the high heel breathe again and let’s hope to all who enjoy wearing heels that it remains the property of dangerous…
We can only hope that some Religious Zealot denounces the heels as the work of the devil… that would make it even more sexy cool!
Heelfully Yours
Gillian
gillian@thefetishlair.com
www.thefetishlair.com
posted by The Fetish Lair @ 6:46 p.m.
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