“Story of the Shoe”

                                                  
A baby booties to high fashioned heel, most of us spends our lives in shoes, and that is among one place we can learn about culture, ancient trend and the self.

We wear our hearts on our body, not only apparels but everything that we wish for, so along with apparels, “Shoes are the best instrument, to know about people, their feeling, emotions" says Associate Professor V P Singh, NIFT- N Delhi. . He can chart the rise and fall of prosperity of shoes from the elevation of a heel, change in pattern of design, toe measurement, technological advancement and psychological impact.

                                                 

Mr Singh; One with an mature understanding of Shoes and Human, surely can describe the personality type. he named them Designer, they can tell what they thought about their design, design of that shoe, for every design they has a commodity and what opinion they made truly based on their understanding of those people, and of-course people of similar 
group, matched to theme will choose it. And, there will be bunch of those who must be trying to fit the same. 

Every shoe has a saga, saga of its wearer; which speak of position, sex (M/F), civilization, religion, profession, and politics or I can say the shoes of the dead have a life all their own.

Historian tells about the relation of shoes and Greeks, where they were named first and later the Romans, who provided the root for many of our present day footwear styles, including soccus, sandalium and muleus (sock, sandal and mule). During the late Roman (Byzantine) empire, Christian morality deemed it sinful to expose the body. St Clement of Alexandria in the third century AD Preached humility for woman who showed their toes. Byzantine footwear covered the feet and shoes replaced the sandals that both men and women had worn for centuries.

Fashion began to change around 1600 as the barriers in dress distinction between classes started to break down. It became a commodity that was traded throughout Europe, and remaining countries of world. The working classes adapted high fashion into simpler modes using humbler materials and were only restricted by cost and practicality.

By the middle of the seventeenth century France had become a beacon of style for all of Europe to emulate. While in 18^th and 19^th century, The excess of decorative were indulged under prestigius fashion labels: Prada, Fendi, Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, Miu Miu, Hogan, Tod's, Dolce e Gabana, Valentino, Armani, Sergio Rossi and Manolo Blahnik. Wihch was favoured by European nobility, spread throughout fashionable society. Slowly but effectively from 1600 to 2012, it has developed an interest in leather shoes to high thin-heeled shoes, sports shoes to advanced technological shoes, and still in experimentation with various silhouette. Hardly there would be few English alphabets not named for shoe.

According to William A. Rossi....

"The foot is an erotic organ and the shoe is its sexual covering,"

Surely, it can be much gratifying than SEX. Is it?? ha ha ;), I don’t know, but Average walking in human life is about 50,000miles and that journey with good shoes can be real fun.