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  2. Chopine - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. 1775–1795 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    Shoes had high, curved heels (the origin of modern "louis heels") and were made of fabric or leather. Shoe buckles remained fashionable until they were abandoned along with high-heeled footwear and other aristocratic fashions in the years after the French Revolution , [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The long upper also was eliminated, essentially leaving only ...

  4. 1750–1775 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    An American girl of 1767 wears a pink satin back-fastening gown over a smock and black shoes with low heels. The girls wear mobcaps and a straw hat. The teenage boy has powdered hair and wears a frock coat and knee length breeches. The youngest child wears a loose white frock with a cloth belt, 1769

  5. 1795–1820 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    Older men, military officers, and those in conservative professions such as lawyers, judges, physicians, and servants retained their wigs and powder. Formal court dress of European monarchies also still required a powdered wig or long powdered hair tied in a queue until the accession of Napoleon to the throne as emperor in 1804.

  6. Wedge (footwear) - Wikipedia

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    Light blue peeptoe wedge heels. Wedge boots, wedgies, or lifties are shoes and boots with a sole in the form of a wedge, such that one piece of material, normally rubber, serves as both the sole and the heel. This design dates back to ancient Greece. [1] Greek Actors used to wear these shoes to signify status.

  7. 1600–1650 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    In England from the 1630s, under the influence of literature and especially court masques, Anthony van Dyck and his followers created a fashion for having one's portrait painted in exotic, historical or pastoral dress, or in simplified contemporary fashion with various scarves, cloaks, mantles, and jewels added to evoke a classic or romantic mood, and also to prevent the portrait appearing ...

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