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The History of the High Heel

Elizabeth Semelhach is the senior curator at the Badashim Museum in Toronto. She says it's impossible to find a high heel that's really gorgeous and fundamentally comfortable. Her book Heights of Fashion chronicles the history of the elevated shoe, which started with men.

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