The Height of Fashion: Our Fascination with Platform Shoes Goes Way Back
May 19, 2008 | Senay GOKCEN
Feeling shorter lately? Maybe it's because the shoe train has left the station and you're still standing on the platform rather than wearing them.
Yep, platform shoes are back.
This ain't no disco.
Platform shoes date to the late 1400s, when "chopines" kept tootsies above the mud and muck of streets in Europe and Asia.
Italian style.
In 15th-century Venice, women wore 30-inch-high platforms made of stacked wood or cork. If they fell in a canal, the shoes could double as flotation devices.
more: seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2004419386_p (314)
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