Shoe History Facts

Still going through the New Yorker's and I came across an article on women's obsession with shoes by Patricia Marx. Never heard of such a thing...LOL...so I thought I would see what it had to say, the facts fascinated me the most.

1. "Freud believed that for many men, shoes represent female genitalia."

2. "High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the 1500s, the riding shoes of French noblemen [had] raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups."

3. "Short King Louis XiV wore shoes with 6-inch red-painted heels (often embellished with scenes of military victories) and decreed that only members of his court could wear similar ones."

Patricia Marx, "Sole Sisters," The New Yorker, September 2008