Miniskirt and long boots

Ines Sainz in minidress and boots.
In 1990, Julia Roberts, heroine of the film Pretty Woman, entered the scene in minidress and black patent leather waders, the "pretty woman style" is then evoked by talking about a woman miniskirt and booted23. Like the black crocodile flat models made by Roger Vivier for Yves Saint Laurent in 1963, or Jane Fonda's vinyl knee boots in Barbarella. Christian Louboutin evokes: "My strongest memory? This is the Monica thigh, which I designed in 2005 for Monica Bellucci who was to interpret the role of a prostitute in the movie How much do you love me? Bertrand Blier. This version of suede and high-rise on the thigh gave a lot of amplitude to the leg, as if it had been painted. What is fun in the thigh is its design, which evokes the heroines of manga or fetishistic creatures Allen Jones. [Unpublished work?]

The fashion presented in Milan, Italy, in September 2008 offers "the combination of leather boots / miniskirts that this year are shorter, much shorter, than in previous years. The boots keep the same crazy success that they have known for the last forty years. Black boots up to the thighs, knees, or stopping wisely over the heel, they are as well with classic jeans as dress pants. "24. This fashion is international, whether in Europe: in Poland "elegance made in Poland" is evoked25, in Madagascar26. [Unpublished work?]                                                                         
      If the shoe has been a type of exclusively female shoe since the twentieth century, it used to dress valets who had to keep their feet tight to hold the shoe in place. Originally flat and light, the pump initially takes the name of pump. In the middle of the fourteenth century, this name was indeed attributed to this type of shoe because of the noise they produce when walking, noise similar to that heard when waxing the floors. [not clear]. Under the Restoration and under Louis-Philippe, it is worn by both women and men for balls in a model varnished and lined with a silk braid. The elegant appearance of the pumps seduces women of the eighteenth century adorned with lace and ribbons, then the creators add a heel.


During the Second World War, restrictions prevent creators from finding the materials conventionally used for stilettos. New, previously unused materials, such as cork or plastic, replace the wood of the heel. In the early 1950s, the stiletto pump made its entry into Italy2. The shoe makes its first appearance in France in 1947 during a Christian Dior fashion show. This type of shoe becomes one of the major attributes of the New Look silhouette, affirming femininity and highlighting the slender silhouette of the models. The two-color version offered by Chanel and Massaro is very popular1. In the years that followed, Jackie Kennedy chose to match all of her outfits to the pumps. The shoe, object of prestige and affirming a high social position, is quickly raised by many first ladies. During the 1960s, the pump is accused of all ills by doctors because of its adverse effects on the back in particular. This type of shoes is neglected in favor of flat-heeled shoes, recommended by feminists. The shoe quickly loses its prestigious image to be finally worn by bar stewards in particular. It was only about thirty years later, in the 1990s, that he made a comeback in the fashion world. The French women, the first consumers of footwear in Europe, then buy an average of six pairs of shoes per year. In 2005, 105 million pairs of stilettos were sold in the world 3. The current stiletto heels are gaining notoriety with great creators such as Salvatore Ferragamo and Charles Jourdan. Pumps are still the subject of research in the fashion industry.                                          

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