Bata Shoe Museum's Photos - Fashion Afoot
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Fashion Afoot 7 - 1970's - Metallic Platform
Many people in the 70's continued to explore the new opportunities opened up by the 1960's counterculture. The challenges to proscribed models of gendered behaviour ushered in new fashion extremes. For the first time since the aristocratic age in the 18th century, men once again wore elevating shoes while outrageous high heels and platforms by women n the discos.
new York socialite Muriel Newman wore these evening shoes in the middles of the 70's, Their glitzy metal finish,high heels and platformed soles certainly would have made her a standout.
American, 1974-78
Many people in the 70's continued to explore the new opportunities opened up by the 1960's counterculture. The challenges to proscribed models of gendered behaviour ushered in new fashion extremes. For the first time since the aristocratic age in the 18th century, men once again wore elevating shoes while outrageous high heels and platforms by women n the discos.
new York socialite Muriel Newman wore these evening shoes in the middles of the 70's, Their glitzy metal finish,high heels and platformed soles certainly would have made her a standout.
American, 1974-78