Why Did Men Stop Wearing Heels?

[astridmyrna]

For generations they have signified femininity and glamour - but a pair of high heels was once an essential accessory for men

Comments

[fauxparadiso]

Could we ever return to an era of guys squeezing their big hairy feet into four-inch, shiny, brightly coloured high heels?

If RuPaul has his way... Jokes aside, I always wonder how guys feel about the narrow variety of types of clothing (in Western country-based styles). It's like every once in a while they realize what they're missing out on due to ~macho~ness, and try to play it off by making the item a compound/fusion word with "man", ex. murse, meggings,etc.

[iolarah]

A friend of mine jokes that that's why he's a transvestite. So many more clothing choices ;)

[silver_apples]

I always feel sorry for the men at Hollywood premiers and award shows. The women get paragraphs describing their dresses, and the men are in black or blue suits.

[wikilobbying]

lol i know right, most of the guys at these really formal premiers/award shows just look exactly the same but then all the women look completely different. that was the beauty of, like, the MTV award shows, though, sometimes looking outrageous was key because then you stood out the whole night.

[iolarah]

The Bata Shoe Museum has an incredible collection of shoes from that era: silks and diamonds on every single one of them. It's almost blinding. The neat thing is that the upper-society ladies would give their cast-offs to the help, who would re-cover the shoes with new, less high-end fabric, and get even more wear out of them. It's a really interesting look at class division.

[magli]

Well, as a tall woman who enjoys wearing heels, I say men should also wear them. It would perhaps lower the number of short men who come up to me at parties to go: Wow, you're really tall.

[the_gabih]

I get people saying as much to me whether or not I'm in heels. /shrug

[karma_aster]

At which point, I'd be quite tempted to reply, "My, but you're talented at stating the blatantly obvious. Natural gift?"

[eldvno]

What is wrong with a guy being short?

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[sio]

the choir teacher i had in high school and his wife (drama company teacher), for years, ran a Renaissance Dinner at Christmas time. us students auditioned to play the various roles (there was a royal court of eight, a king, a queen, and a jester), plus table hosts and servers to serve those who came a five course meal. there were skits and music and all sorts of fun shenanigans for the guests, all time period appropriate (15th century, IIRC).

in the two months leading up to the dinner, in between song rehearsals, we would do some serious learning about the history of the times--including fashion.

i will never forget the day fashion was discussed and Mr. P. whipped out a giant book he brought from home with full color photos, and was talking about how many of the fashions we girls now wore, were started by men--including high heels. i think we talked about it for three days, LOL.

Re: csb related to topic

[ahria]

That's pretty awesome.

[tabaqui]

While i don't wear heels much myself - i don't dress up much and don't find heeled boots all that practical in 'boot weather' - i love, love love a nice leg in a heel, be they man or woman.

More men should wear heeled boots and 'dress' shoes - why not? It makes your ass look fabulous and i love how people - well, some people - walk in heels. Just that little bit of sway.....
:)