HIGH HEELS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 20

HIGH HEELS

I'lllST INTRODUCED IN SIX • i TBENTH CENTURY.

Anne Boleyn was the first English Queen to wear high-heeled shoes.-and thejfact $at *he. had epens pome time m Stance before'she got a footing at the English Oourj; and captured'the wayward, heart of the amorous Henry no doubt gave rise to the popular belief W* ffficb heels tyere iof French origin (writes Mary Abbot in the "Westminster Gazette'?). As v matter of fa,ct, the Itahan ehopine, that glorified "pat.Wß P? WPOd and gaily fiolqured leathers, was the influence which shaped the high-heeled shoes introduced into 1 England during the 16th century. Like her father,, who' at the Field of the Uoth of Gold wore shoes pf embroidered velvet with silver edges, Queen Elizabeth had a weakness for fino footwear, and was largely responsible for m fashion fpr high heels, especially after she discarded woollen stockings fPT ?.Mken ones and discovered how Wgy. » cpß^junction with high^eeled shoes,/accentuated the slimness of her ankles. Men, little less than wojnen, have deemed their personal 'attractiveness onhanccd by wearing high heels When Charles the First was Bang, masculine legß strutted along the Mall encased in silken stockings embroidered wtth coloured, «'ploeks" above shoes with heels so much cut away at each corned that they came to be known as spindjei. * . . -