Shoes [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… the shoe as a worn material artefact that had a close relationship with the body, and which had an important role to play in social and gender relations. Shoes are items of dress, so they have a visual importance in terms of fashion. Much … has been written about the ‘renunciation’ in men’s fashion at this time, suggesting that the rejection of sartorial display constituted a revolution in masculinities. 4 But it is important to emphasise that these new fashions underlined … of the polite body. As such, it is vital to think about shoes as embodied objects. Shoes should not be studied or displayed in isolation, since they were fundamentally worn objects that had a very close relationship with the bodies that …
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