How F*scìsm Created Wedge Shoes | The History of Wedges

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In this video I explore the connection between f*scíast Italy and the modern wedge shoe. From the ancient greeks to renaissance era Venice and Spain to 1930s Italy, the wedge/platform shoe has seen many iterations. Whether you love them or hate them there is no denying how easy it is to wear them. As our society gets less and less formal wedges have acquired staying power in many wardrobes.
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@keelyjohnston19 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting I love wedges I have wide feet so wedges are more comfortable for me.

@CarolineElizabethMartin Жыл бұрын

wedges are honestly my favorite type of shoe to wear although, i can do without wedge sneakers lol

@keelyjohnston19 Жыл бұрын

@@CarolineElizabethMartin yeah I love wedged boots tho

@joiedevivre2005 Жыл бұрын

Wooden soled wedges could be used as an act of rebellion as well. My friend's grandmother was French & the N*zi occupation of Paris occurred when she was in her late teens/early twenties. She said the wedges "clattered" when they walked on cobblestone streets & sidewalks. When she & her friends saw German soldiers talking they would "stomp" very loudly past to "drown out their ugly N*zi voices." Her telling of this story made me love wedges even more.

@stevezytveld6585 Жыл бұрын

I didn't know of the link with Italian Futurists. Thank you. This was fascinating. I remember, as a teen in the early 80's, there was an absolute push-back about wearing wedges. I guess it was one of those transitional periods when everybody is trying to distance themselves from the previous decade. And thank you for not letting dear little Missus Channel off the hook (sorry, lived with a high ranking Nazi - you are not a Ms. or a Miss). I just started reading a bio of Schiaparelli - who was under OSI surveillance during her WW2 time in NYC... were all the Paris couture houses suspected of collaboration on some level? Did _all_ of them 'go along to get along'? If memory serves, Dior was working as an illustrator at that time. Did they let the boys off the hook? - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi

@CarolineElizabethMartin Жыл бұрын

That is so interesting! Yup chanel was an awful person and I never want to forget it! Wow I had no clue, fascinating.

@stevezytveld6585 Жыл бұрын

@@CarolineElizabethMartin If I'm understanding the Dior story properly - after his war service, after the French surrendered, he went to work as an illustrator at a couture house. Which means they would have been creating for the Nazi elite...? That part of the story gets a suspicious-to-me quick description, and then they go back to the man being all that and a cup of tea. His sister was in the resistance. But what was he up to during the rest of the war? I know at least one of the couture houses stayed opened and lobbied that fashion be kept in Paris, not moved to Berlin, as was the grand plan... Schiaparelli was under suspicion because the Nazi's didn't take her home or her store & she seemed to keep her liquid assets. And I think she arrived in NYC after the fall of Paris, not before. In the 50's she closed her house the same week that Channel reopened hers. Which must have made little Coco crow for joy... honestly, the more I find out about CC the less impressed I am. Her take on Dior was he's a man who wishes he was a woman. Like... seriously... CC was a patron to the arts in the 20's & 30's. She would have been cheek and jowl in the 'gay' community... & yet, & yet...

@caraelysia3183 Жыл бұрын

This is such an incredible video! Such an interesting topic :)

@CarolineElizabethMartin Жыл бұрын

Thank you Cara 🥰

@joannathesinger770 Жыл бұрын

I bought a pair of navy '60's wedge platform shoes a couple of years ago...amazingly in my size and narrow width. I enjoy them.

@user-te8tr7dn5d Жыл бұрын

My name is Michelle I love your videos thank you

@johnshepard629 Жыл бұрын

What a GREAT history lesson! You made it informative AND entertaining!!! Perhaps you could do more and call the series “Sew Interesting”. I have to ask which pup is in the background. He looks very content and so sweet. Keep up the great work and thank you!

@CarolineElizabethMartin Жыл бұрын

Thank you John! I always look forward to seeing your comments 😊. That is a great idea! That pup is Mucca aka lil moo, our 9 year old black pitbull. She's such a baby and I love her.

@indiabilly Жыл бұрын

I don’t like wedges never have but then they don’t suit me, they can look good on other people though- still wear crocs at the beach and still wear Uggs in very cold weather-both very practical shoes unlike wedges that want my ankles to snap!

@igitha..._ Жыл бұрын

I only have them because it takes longer for the soles to wear through - last pair of normie shoes I bought my feet got wet

@pw529 Жыл бұрын

I HAVE WORN PLATFORM SHOES ( BACK IN THE 1970"S ) I STILL LIKE WEDGES, AND THEY ARE NOT AS UGLY AS CROCKS OR UGGS, I WOULD NEVER WEAR THEM ,I WOULS STILL WEAR WEDGES IF I ID NOT HAVE TO WEAR FLATS, because of dizziness , GLAD TO SEE YOU BACK,

@CarolineElizabethMartin Жыл бұрын

I love wedges too..can’t believe some people thought they were uglier than crocs or Uggs! Thank you p w