Riello , Giorgio and McNeil, Peter, eds. (2006) Shoes : a history from sandals to sneakers. Berg, Oxford ; New York. ISBN 9781845204433

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Abstract

What do your shoes say about you? Shoes are now much more than just things to walk in. From kids on the block to models on the catwalk, we use them to signal how fashionable we are. But, beyond style, this most intimate object communicates much more ...our sexual desires, aesthetic sense, social status and personality. And, before they became supreme objects of desire, shoes had a history. From ancient times to the present, shoes have had a cultural as well as a practical purpose. Within these pages is pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about shoes - the tiny crushing shoes of China, the infamous chopine with its 23-inch heel, how dandies made men's shoes beautiful in the eighteenth century, and how the powers of conservatism made them dull again, war and the wellington boot, sex and the high heel, the codes of the "gay shoe," shoes in fairytales and in art, the irresistible rise of the sneaker, and the cult of shoe designers.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Publisher:	Berg
Place of Publication:	Oxford ; New York
ISBN:	9781845204433
Editor:	Riello , Giorgio and McNeil, Peter
Date:	2006
Status:	Peer Reviewed
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/35390

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