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May 12, 2012 7:30 AM EDT
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The Illustrated History Of The Platform Shoe

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1700s — When the Peking Opera became popularized in China in the 1700s, male actors would wear silk platform boots. As in the case of the Greek thespians, the higher the sole, the more important the player... and the less likely they'd have to perform the acrobatic flips that lower players characters had to do.

Illustrations by Isabelle Rancier

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