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Riu Leonardes - men's high heels
Iconique Magazine has an article from 2006 on a designer Riu Leonardes. He is a Portuguese designer who has created a line of high heels for men.
All Heels for Men offers all you need for your cross dressing needs.
High Heels for men is a website that features current trends for this style. It also has a list of on line stores that carry high heels in men's sizes.
Hip Candy in 2007 has an article which asks its audience for a style verdict on men's heels. Various opinions are expressed. The curious thing is that everyone responds like this is something new.
A report in discountguide calls it the Sarkozy effect, reflecting the French premiers diminutive statue, as a reason for men to don man heels.
Marc Jacobs in 2008 presented a collection, which featured men's heels.This was reported in a article from the DailyPump. These again, like Sarkozy's are called stacked heels.
Which is it? New trend or a revision of a old aesthetic? In the days of the Renaissance, for example, clothing was elaborate and fancy. Men’s outfits were nearly as outrageous and decorated as women’s. Powdered wigs and faces were worn by both genders. Another fashion statement enjoyed by both genders were high heels. Check out Louis XIV . He was fierce. This wasn't considered cross dressing back then. Gender roles were much more muted, and sophisticated. Their was little distinction between men's, and women's apparel in the court of the nobility of France up to and before the french revolution. The Bourgeoisie which ascended to power after the french revolution, demands strict gender roles and adherence to a strict male, and female dichotomy, that isn't born out of nature, but custom.The rigid gender roles, in this country are unscietnific, and not supported by Biology . From a biological perspective, all people are born with 2 X chromosones. Some of us lose the extra X, it breaks off becomes a Y and the result is man. So we all are both male and female. Check out the video embedded in this article. It's David Bowie in a performance from 1973, on a British talk show. Look at his outfit, then look at the outfit and style of Louis XIV, from the early 17th century.The influence of the Renaissance, and the French court and of fashion, pre-Bourgeois modern Europe is apparent. Love those Rococco earrings.
In a previous article Androgony is an alternative to drag ,there is a video from The Human League, "Do or Die", where the lead singer Phil Oakey is wearing a pair of fabulous Ribina pumps of Sheffield England, circa 1981.
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