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2. High-heeled shoe - Wikipedia

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   High heels are also sometimes marketed to children, and some schools encourage children to wear them. [6] 18% of injuries from wearing high heels were in children, and 4% in under-tens, in a 2002–2012 US survey. [6] A 2016 medical review on high-heeled shoes expressed concern about children's use of high heels. [6]

3. Chopine - Wikipedia

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   High chopines allowed a woman to tower over others. During the Renaissance, chopines became an article of women's fashion and were made increasingly taller; some extant examples exceed 50 cm (20 inches) in height. [2] In 1430 a Venetian law limited the height of chopines to three inches, but this regulation was widely ignored. [3]

4. 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).

5. Stiletto heel - Wikipedia

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   A stiletto heel, or just stiletto, is a shoe with a long, thin, high heel. It is named after the stiletto dagger. Stiletto heels may vary in length from 2.5 centimetres (1 inch) to 25 cm (10 inches) or more if a platform sole is used, and are sometimes defined as having a diameter at the ground of less than 1 cm (slightly less than half an inch).

6. Platform shoe - Wikipedia

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   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 continuous uniform thickness, have a wedge, a separate block or a stiletto heel.

7. Shoe - Wikipedia

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   A heel is the projection at the back of a shoe which rests below the heel bone. The shoe heel is used to improve the balance of the shoe, increase the height of the wearer, alter posture or other decorative purposes. Sometimes raised, the high heel is common to a form of shoe often worn by women, but sometimes by men too. See also stiletto heel.