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Calcagnetti (Chopine)- Correr Museum. A chopine is a type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Chopines were originally used as a patten, clog, or overshoe to protect shoes and dresses from mud and street soil. In Venice both courtesans and patrician women frequently wore chopines c. 1400 to 1700.
Venetian loafer in dark brown calf made by John Lobb Bootmaker. Venetian-style shoes or Venetian-style loafers are mid-heel slippers with an upper or top part that is slightly open to the kick of the foot and the ankle bone. The venetian-style shoe and its lack of ornamentation contrasts with the loafer which may have slotted straps, vamps and ...
Two Venetian Ladies is an oil on panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio. The painting, believed to be a quarter of the original work, was executed around 1490 and shows two unknown Venetian ladies. The top portion of the panel, called Hunting on the Lagoon is in the Getty Museum, and another matching panel is missing.
The fad lasted even further in the US, lasting until as late as the early 1980s. At the beginning of the fad, they were worn primarily by young women in their teens and twenties, and occasionally by younger girls, older women, and (particularly during the disco era) by young men. [11] [12] Platform shoes were considered the "party shoe."
Modern reconstruction of a Venetian chopine from the 16th cent. By the early modern period , the development of better socks and less stiff hose allowed European footwear to become firmer and more durable.
In modern use, however, the term is properly restricted to overshoes. In fact, medieval English also used the terms clogs and galoches alongside pattens but, if there were subtle differences intended, that is no longer clear and all medieval and early modern overshoes are now usually referred to as pattens for convenience.
"La chopine était une chaussure vénitienne au XVIème siècle à semelle de bois et épais patin de liège dont on se servait dans la rue pour se protéger de la boue." Info on the venetian Chopine "Musée international de la chaussure" News article making reference to the Chopine being a Venetian style shoe.--
The chopine combined this with the shoe, [11] reaching heights up to 30 inches (76 cm) by 1430. Venetian law later limited the height to three inches—but this regulation was widely ignored. [12] At the end of the Elizabethan era, cavalier boots were introduced for riding.