Tennis Shoe High Heels

This is my fashion photo made at the 2016 Blues Festival in Silver City, New Mexico. I first caught sight of these shoes as they moved across my line of sight in a crowd. These high heeled black & white sneakers just fascinated me and that put me on the hunt to find this young lady in the hope she would permit me to take a photo of them. I found her hours later and she most graciously posed for the photo I posted.
The following information was quoted from: http:--www.attn.com-stories-3012-why-women-wear-high-heels. Scholars trace the emergence of high heels as a form of footwear to the military. In the 1500s, the Persian army innovated the heel as a way to keep their feet in the stirrups. They needed to be nimble on horses. The European aristocracy very much admired the Persian army. They were considered the most brutal and successful army in the world. As usual, when someone admires someone, they started copying them. Aristocrats started wearing heels to make connections to the men they admired. It’s really no different from young men wearing Air Jordan tennis shoes. Men use them to make a connection between themselves and Michael Jordan, an ideal form of masculinity.
As with all fashion, once the elite adopt it, it tends to filter down. So both women and men, just your average middle-class laborers, they all start wearing heels.
This, of course, was no good for the aristocracy. A main point of fashion is to draw distinctions between the rich and the not so rich. King Louis XIV started making laws that no one could wear heels as high as him. In at least one of the American colonies, women who wore high heels were accused of being witches. Ultimately, the elite men of European society lost control of high heels and stopped wearing them altogether. This was about the same time as the Enlightenment, so they redefined high heels as irrational and used their popularity among women and less elite men to make fun of them. They’ve been in and out of fashion ever since.

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