Tall stilletos are one of the fashion trends of the year, thanks in part to celebrities including Victoria Beckham and Gwyneth Paltrow. The designer Christian Louboutin even plans to create "extreme" eight inch heels after the success of his six and seven inch pairs Heel heights are meant to fall during times of financial hardship – under the fashion industry's so-called "stiletto index" – but it seems women are instead dealing with the recession by buying big. The last time super-high heels were in vogue was during the Depression that followed the 1929 Wall Street Crash. Ali Hall, editor of fashion magazine Look, told The Sun: "All the main shoe trends are mega high – and even more death defying." Feminist academic Germaine Greer has predicted that the popularity of high heels will collapse as the recession worsens. "Now is the towering shoe moment of the Noughties, which will be followed by the inevitable fall," she wrote. Women may enjoy window-shopping for towering stilettos but "few of them will have the spare cash to invest in shoes that can be safely worn only in bed," she added. The historian Amanda Foreman blamed the growth of high heels on male fashion executives who want to restrain female rivals in the jobs market. "These shoes are obviously not for the working woman, they aren't designed for cobbled streets. They're not real life, but a little fantasy."
Monday 9 February 2009
Great Depression 'skyscraper' heels back in fashion
Women are buying skyscraper heels last popular in the 1930s, providing further evidence of the parallels between the current economic crisis and the Great Depression.
Tall stilletos are one of the fashion trends of the year, thanks in part to celebrities including Victoria Beckham and Gwyneth Paltrow. The designer Christian Louboutin even plans to create "extreme" eight inch heels after the success of his six and seven inch pairs Heel heights are meant to fall during times of financial hardship – under the fashion industry's so-called "stiletto index" – but it seems women are instead dealing with the recession by buying big. The last time super-high heels were in vogue was during the Depression that followed the 1929 Wall Street Crash. Ali Hall, editor of fashion magazine Look, told The Sun: "All the main shoe trends are mega high – and even more death defying." Feminist academic Germaine Greer has predicted that the popularity of high heels will collapse as the recession worsens. "Now is the towering shoe moment of the Noughties, which will be followed by the inevitable fall," she wrote. Women may enjoy window-shopping for towering stilettos but "few of them will have the spare cash to invest in shoes that can be safely worn only in bed," she added. The historian Amanda Foreman blamed the growth of high heels on male fashion executives who want to restrain female rivals in the jobs market. "These shoes are obviously not for the working woman, they aren't designed for cobbled streets. They're not real life, but a little fantasy."
Tall stilletos are one of the fashion trends of the year, thanks in part to celebrities including Victoria Beckham and Gwyneth Paltrow. The designer Christian Louboutin even plans to create "extreme" eight inch heels after the success of his six and seven inch pairs Heel heights are meant to fall during times of financial hardship – under the fashion industry's so-called "stiletto index" – but it seems women are instead dealing with the recession by buying big. The last time super-high heels were in vogue was during the Depression that followed the 1929 Wall Street Crash. Ali Hall, editor of fashion magazine Look, told The Sun: "All the main shoe trends are mega high – and even more death defying." Feminist academic Germaine Greer has predicted that the popularity of high heels will collapse as the recession worsens. "Now is the towering shoe moment of the Noughties, which will be followed by the inevitable fall," she wrote. Women may enjoy window-shopping for towering stilettos but "few of them will have the spare cash to invest in shoes that can be safely worn only in bed," she added. The historian Amanda Foreman blamed the growth of high heels on male fashion executives who want to restrain female rivals in the jobs market. "These shoes are obviously not for the working woman, they aren't designed for cobbled streets. They're not real life, but a little fantasy."
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