The High Heel Is a Hybrid of Function and Form

The shoe, like just about everything we humans wear and use and do, is a hybrid of function and form. It's plainly useful, but part of its use lies in its ability to signal something about the person wearing it. Consider the humble sneaker, or i should the sneaker that i had presumed was humble. In two thousand thirteen samelha put together a museum exhibit on sneakers. E lot of people think of sneakers as being really casual. But what my research showed was that sneakers actually started out as objects of luxury. The early sneakers, tennis shoes, were expensive, and they reflected privilege.