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2. Platform shoe - Wikipedia

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   Platform shoes may also be high heels, in which case the heel is raised significantly higher than the ball of the foot. Extreme heights, of both the sole and heel, can be found in fetish footwear such as ballet boots, where the sole may be up to 20 cm (8 in) high and the heels up to 40 cm (16 in) or more. The sole of a platform shoe can have a ...

3. Chopine - Wikipedia

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   Reconstruction of a 16th-century Venetian chopine. On display at the Shoe Museum in Lausanne. Calcagnetti (Chopine)- Correr Museum. A chopine is a type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Chopines were originally used as a patten, clog, or overshoe to protect shoes and dresses from mud and street soil.

4. Wedge (footwear) - Wikipedia

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   Wedge boots, wedgies, or lifties are shoes and boots with a sole in the form of a wedge, such that one piece of material, normally rubber, serves as both the sole and the heel. This design dates back to ancient Greece. [1] Greek Actors used to wear these shoes to signify status.

5. Geta (footwear) - Wikipedia

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   The original motivation for wearing the high platform shoes was not fashion, but practicality: to keep feet and kimono from coming in contact with things on the ground, such as dirt, filth, water, or snow. The dai may vary in shape, from oval shapes to more rectangular, with the former being considered more feminine and the latter more ...

6. Armadillo shoe - Wikipedia

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   Side view of an armadillo shoe, covered in iridescent paillettes made to look like scales, from the show's final outfit, "Neptune's Daughter". The armadillo shoe (alternately armadillo heel or armadillo boot) is a high fashion platform shoe created by British fashion designer Alexander McQueen for his final collection, Plato's Atlantis (Spring/Summer 2010).

7. Category:High-heeled footwear - Wikipedia

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   Platform shoe; S. Spool heel; Stiletto heel; U. United Nude This page was last edited on 10 July 2023, at 07:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

8. Footwear - Wikipedia

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   In the U.S., the annual footwear industry revenue was $48 billion in 2012. In 2015, there were about 29,000 shoe stores in the U.S. and the shoe industry employed about 189,000 people. [47] Due to rising imports, these numbers are also declining. The only way of staying afloat in the shoe market is to establish a presence in niche markets. [48]

9. Platform boots - Wikipedia

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