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    Default Why are stripper shoes shaped the way they are?

    I wonder why the staple stripper shoe is the "platform/stiletto" shape, and why also so many are manufactured out of Lucite and other clear plastics.

    I know there are girls that dance in other kinds of shoes or barefoot, but it just strikes me as an interesting phenomenon that the industry standard is this really particular and really weird shape of shoe.

    WHO INVENTED IT?

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    Default Re: Why are stripper shoes shaped the way they are?

    Platform because it adds height, stiletto because it gives a more delicate and feminine appearance to the bulky shoe style, and clear because that creates the appearance that you're just sort of floating with your feet all perfectly Barbie-shaped, often with no strap to break up the leg line, further lengthening the look of the leg.

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    I've always wondered about the origins of the stripper shoe! I hope someone contributes...
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    With some googling and wiki I found some "kind" of answer. I really want to know though who started the fashion of platforms in clubs though. Or where it came from. When I started dancing it was the spiked heels (no platform at all) with a strap around the ankle. I still have those shoes! hah They were actually comfortable to me and less falling but I'd really be dating myself if I wore those now.

    Anyways, here is what Wiki had to say.

    Reasons for wearing high-heels, which are almost exclusively aesthetic, include:

    * they change the angle of the foot with respect to the lower leg, which accentuates the appearance of calves
    * they change the wearer's posture, requiring a more upright carriage and altering the gait in what is considered a seductive fashion
    * they make the wearer appear taller
    * they make the legs appear longer
    * they make the foot appear smaller
    * they make the glutial muscles more defined while wearing tight pants

    and a random "factoid" A recent study suggested that wearing high heels may improve the tone of a woman's pelvic floor, thereby improving her (and her partner's) sex life. [1]
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    Platforms are like shock absorbers for the feet. Not to mention they elevate your toes from the impact of that really drunk dude's stumble/stomp.
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    Mini strap-on stages.

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    I wish I could wear the shoes with clear plastic uppers. They give me corns from hell. *sigh*

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    I think clear shoes are popular because of outfit matchibility. Plastic because it's light for the wearer, which is important because they can get pretty big, and it's cheap for manufacturers (more so than wood and whatever other stuff), and also I think they're better absorbers for your legs and back.

    Um the way the front part is sometimes rounded, it's probably because it's easier to walk/dance that way, you get a little tilt and swivel and you can pivot around on these wonderfully... I imagine that if they were more blocky, I'd almost have to... march.

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    I get all the things you guys are saying, definitely. I'm not sure if the OP is thinking along the same lines as me, but I was more interested in HOW and WHEN strippers started wearing this specific type of shoe, not WHY.

    Sophia Ashley mentions that there were different shoes when she started dancing, so it this a more recent phenomenon. What kind of shoes did dancers in the 80s and 90s wear?
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    remember videos of ZZ Top and such??? In the 80's that was the ULTIMATE sex shoe, the stiletto that was 4-5 inches high, with the ball of the foot flat on the floor. absolutely retched, horrible for your body!!!!! i believe it was around '96 that the "platform" style really starting becoming mainstream in the clubs. i think they are so peculiar in style to because they are to be fantasy shoes, for the fantasy dancer

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    Wow, wouldn't your feet absolutely kill you after a shift wearing stilettos like that?
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    yes^^^^^
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    I think my ass and legs look better in heels, not to mention I love being tall like a supermodel. And if you wear heels less than 4 1/2 inches or so, your tummy sticks out (well, maybe just mine)

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    Quote Originally Posted by noelle View Post
    Wow, wouldn't your feet absolutely kill you after a shift wearing stilettos like that?
    YES! But they looked hot.

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    I read somewhere that around 1500-1600 prostitutes in Europe used to wear platforms because they had to walk on muddy streets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oralia View Post
    I read somewhere that around 1500-1600 prostitutes in Europe used to wear platforms because they had to walk on muddy streets.
    It was a fashion in Venice! Big old cork platform shoes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RoseLeigh View Post
    It was a fashion in Venice! Big old cork platform shoes.
    yep, I found this:


    It's odd to think that the platform sole was popular in the 1600s. When people think of platform shoes, they tend to think of the wild disco filled '70s, or maybe or the foot high vinyl sneakers they may see on today's ravers. When we think of the 1600s, we might mistake that era for the Victorian era with women wearing skirts that billow out making it hard to even walk through a door. But in the late 1400s to the mid 1600s the platform sole reached immense popularity. The platform shoe of the 1400s to 1600s was called the chopine, "an overshoe" that slipped over a more dainty shoe, protecting it from mud or dirt.

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    Venetian prostitutes often wore chopines. The platform shoes elevated the prostitutes, who often lingered in dark doorways waiting for potential customers, to a height which would make them noticeable

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    Default Re: Why are stripper shoes shaped the way they are?

    They have evolved though





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    that is one ugly old shoe^^^
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    From Italy, 1580-16-20, this chopine has a wooden platform covered with gold-colored silk velvet. It is embellished with silver lace, silk ribbons & a tassel.


    The Chopine @ http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chop/hd_chop.htm

    They are even in this painting near the boy - http://www.wga.hu/art/c/carpacci/5/01ladies.jpg

    I would say that would be one of the places our platforms have been "inherited"


    have to admit this whole thread has been rather interesting.. thanks for starting it!!


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    I've always wondered that too. It still surprises me how easily I can get around in 7-8 inchers. In the beginning it was so awkward though, but I could probably run a marathon in those fuckers now!
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    Quote Originally Posted by noelle View Post
    I'm not sure if the OP is thinking along the same lines as me, but I was more interested in HOW and WHEN strippers started wearing this specific type of shoe, not WHY.

    Sophia Ashley mentions that there were different shoes when she started dancing, so it this a more recent phenomenon. What kind of shoes did dancers in the 80s and 90s wear?
    When I first began going to clubs in early 1995, most dancers wore non-platform shoes. In some of the dingier clubs I went to, some of the dancers didn't even have the super tall spike heels that you saw gals in hair metal videos wearing. They just wore "housewife heels" that were available at the local shoe store. Things like dancer boutiques weren't as common back then, and internet commerce was near non-existent.

    By the end of 1996, most dancers had switched over to platforms. The only gals still wearing the "old school" heels were the old school dancers who had been using them for years. Most of the platform shoes were black or white, not the clear kind you commonly see today. They were all 6 inchers back then.

    Within a couple more years, shoes with clear platforms, but still opaque uppers and straps began to outnumber the non-clear variety. Slightly after that, they began to put fancy things like the lights inside of the platforms. After 2000, they started coming out with the taller 7" and 8" platforms.

    If you have any old porn magazines or movies around, or even some old B movies on VHS with strippers in them, this is a good way to get a glimpse of the type of shoes that dancers were wearing about the time that media was produced.
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    Thanks doc, that's exactly what I've always wondered. Hmmm, it's so funny to me to imagine someone designing the first platform stripper shoes
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    Quote Originally Posted by lilymiaomiao View Post
    I think clear shoes are popular because of outfit matchibility. Plastic because it's light for the wearer, which is important because they can get pretty big, and it's cheap for manufacturers (more so than wood and whatever other stuff), and also I think they're better absorbers for your legs and back.

    Um the way the front part is sometimes rounded, it's probably because it's easier to walk/dance that way, you get a little tilt and swivel and you can pivot around on these wonderfully... I imagine that if they were more blocky, I'd almost have to... march.
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    Ah doc-catfish, this is very interesting indeed. It always shocks me how quickly fashions change en masse. Like trends are viral or something.

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