THE 19th CENTURY - English Wedding Slipper

THE 19th CENTURY - Modesty and Technology
Nature may dictate height but the shoe designer is more than capable of manipulating it. This was never more obvious than immediately following the French Revolution (1792) when shoe heels all but disappeared. Their demise was motivated by politics and the desire to suggest that everyone was born on the same level.Heels first returned on male footwear when in the late 1810's a new fashion emerged. Trousers were anchored with stirrup straps underneath the foot, which displaced the older knee-length breeches. The heel was an additional aid in keeping the pant strap in place.

"English cream silk wedding slipper-sandal, c. 1815 "