Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe

Elizabeth Semmelhack

Bata Shoe Museum, 2008 - Design - 119 pages

Drawing on historical sources, paintings and prints, this volume explores how and why shoes or boots with high heels came into common use. It considers the function of high heels in daily life, in the production of class and gender, and in the staging of erotic fantasy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe
• Author: Elizabeth Semmelhack
• Contributor: Bata Shoe Museum Foundation
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Bata Shoe Museum, 2008
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Aug 16, 2010
• ISBN: 1934772941, 9781934772942
• Length: 119 pages
• Subjects: Design / Fashion & Accessories; Health & Fitness / Beauty & Grooming; History / Social History; Social Science / Gender Studies