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Avantgarde shoes of the 1930s-1950s
Asymmetrical wedges, platforms and heels of the 1930s and 1940s A lot of people consider platforms as "the shoe of the 1970s", when they really first came in to modern fashion in the late 1930s. The 1930s is often spoke about as the "golden era of movies" and this also lead to a "golden era" of fashion; designers and movie stars became close and Paris designer Lucien Lelong said "We, the couturiers, can no longer live without the cinema any more than the cinema can live without us. We corroborate each others' instinct.". Spectacular fashions were important and in this shoes played a major role (a well-known example of this is the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz", 1939). In 1936 platform shoes appeared in the fashion magazines and on the runways of Europe. Five years later, in 1941, they caught on in North America.

Futuristic lucite heels of the 1950s

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