When the trailer for Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie was first released, Google Trend searches for fluffy mules shot up 115 percent. This was, of course, largely inspired by the trailer’s scene featuring Margot Robbie’s Barbie stepping out of her pink stilettos and into a tip-toe pose, a reference to the doll’s signature stance due to her perpetually frozen feet.
“It also gets interpreted as a boudoir slipper, and the quintessential Frederick’s of Hollywood shoe. By the 1950s, the height of a heel begins to skate towards the tawdry.” When it comes to the stiletto heel, exactly who invented it and when is a bit murky, but it’s clear there was a move towards a sharp, sleek look in the 1950s, Semmelhack said. She credits designer André Perugia as the one “who was playing with metal first as something that can support a woman’s weight.
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