Shoes: The Meaning of Style
Pub Date: 2017-10-15 | ISBN-10 : 1780238347 | ISBN-13 : 9781780238340 | Author : Elizabeth Semmelhack | Publisher : Union Publishing Co., Ltd.
Today, buying shoes, wearing shoes, and collecting shoes is for many of us a habit that borders on fetish. Shoe lover or not, we all make choices every day about which shoes to wear. But why do we choose the footwear we do? In Shoes: The Meaning of Style, Elizabeth Semmelhack explores the history of shoes and how different types of footwear have come to mean varying things about the people who wear them. Organized around four main shoe types—boots, sneakers, high heels, and sandals—she explains their origins, the impact of technology on how shoes are produced and worn, and...