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The History of High Heels

You're Dead to Me

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How High Are Platform Shoes?

These are platform shoes. They were worn by women in italy under women's dresses to increase the amount of textile your dress required. Laren, how high do you reckon they got? I reckon quite high, you know, or like, a good six, seven inches. Sometimes they gav be in the most extreme, really, 54 centimeters. In venice when they're on view certain days of the year, they ere like parade floats.

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