The History of Heels | The Military Tech That Became Women's Most Impractical Shoe
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The History of Heels | The Military Tech That Became Women's Most Impractical Shoe

B2Upper-intermediateMay 1, 202638 min

Men invented high heels. Men made them a power symbol. Then men decided women should wear them instead. Classic. In this episode of For the Love of History, we're uncovering the surprisingly bloody, surprisingly spicy history of high heels — and it starts not in a shoe store, but on a Persian battlefield. From the cavalry soldiers of the Safavid Empire who used heels to stay mounted while firing arrows at full gallop, to the Sun King Louis XIV, who weaponized fashion to control the French nobility, to the Victorian photographers who turned heels into a sy...

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You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. For over a hundred years, the world has been captivated by Hollywood, the stuff that dreams are made of, where stars are born. Made in bar, jump in a world.

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