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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 ...
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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.
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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).
Dezső Magyar: Gábor Bódy, Tamás Szentjóby, György Cserhalmi: Banned after release Fényes szelek: Miklós Jancsó: Hosszú futásodra mindig számíthatunk: Gyula Gazdag: Isten hozta, őrnagy úr: Zoltán Fábri: Zoltán Latinovits, Imre Sinkovits: Based on the novel by István Örkény, entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival
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 ...
Platform (shopping center) in Culver City, Greater Los Angeles, California; Theatre platform, a standard piece of theatrical scenery; Platform mound, an earthwork intended to support a structure or activity; Platform shoe, a kind of shoe with a thick sole; Railway platform, an area at a railway station to alight from/embark on trains or trams