Let's have some better pictures of platform shoes
There are no pictures of classic bright colored high-heeled platform shoes from the early 1970s that everyone used to wear to discos. Someone needs to provide these pictures. Keraunos (talk) 03:54, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
I added this picture to the article of a classic 1970s men’s platform shoe for going out dancing at a disco from an Internet wardrobe costume rental site: [1] Now, THAT is a REAL authentic platform shoe from the 1970s like the kind that everyone used to wear to go dancing at discos! Keraunos (talk) 04:14, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
What about fish tank shoes?
The shoes with the fish tank in the heel or sometimes front part are real, usually as retro-style novelty-wear (Google search and see for yourself), though I suspect the kind with actual living fish inside may never have existed. Should the article mention them? â€"Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.85.190 (talk) 08:23, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Notable
Is this really significant enough to need a paragraph in the article, although the reference is nice (but what company did this?)? (Moved to talk) RJFJR (talk) 19:41, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
In February 2006, a Texas-based company opened a website, claiming to be the legitimate successor to the original Kork-Ease company. Their site claims that the original company had been founded in 1953, implying further that their platform sandals also originated in 1953. This is somewhat suspect: aside from being less than entirely consistent with Linda O'Keeffe's book, Shoes : A Celebration of Pumps, Sandals, Slippers & More (New York: Workman, 1996), pp 388â€"9, it further implies that the footgear in question was introduced just as the last gasps of the brief 1930s and 1940s platform shoe fads were waning, survived for a decade and a half in almost complete obscurity, then rocketed to ubiquity at the beginning of the 1967 platform fad, only to be forced into obscurity, and near-total extinction by successive waves of the fad by the late 1970s.
Also this (although if we created a section on notable manufacturers of platform shoes it would belong there)? RJFJR (talk) 19:42, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Buffalo Boots is a brand whose platform models were popular, especially in Europe (notably Germany and Scandinavia), from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s.
Apparently nonsensical statement
"During the Qing dynasty, aristocrat Manchu women wore a form of platform shoe with a separate high heel, a style that was later adopted in Europe during the 1590s.[2]"
So this style was "later" adopted in Europe during the 1590's, from the Qing dynasty which did not commence until 1644Â ?Eregli bob (talk) 15:04, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Modern Late90's to Early 2000's
Small text"Britain generally is not as concerned with women's feet appearing as small as possible;[citation needed] the long pointed shoes of the early 2000s, giving an elongated look to the foot, have been more popular in the US than in the UK."
â†'- This part makes no Sense. It implies that in America we like women to appear to have small feet (this maybe, I never heard it and there is no citation but idk). however it then states that the popular Trend was pointed toe shoes that Elongate womens feet. This is contradictory. It may just be he put the wrong countries in parts or phrased it wrong, But probably just has no idea what they are talking about
"The trend re-established itself in the late 1990s and early 2000s with a much higher threshold of what was considered outrageous: parents of 1997 to 2004 typically thought nothing of buying their preschool daughters and sons platform sandals that parents of 1973 would not have wanted their older children wearing"Small text
Actually in the late 90's - 2000's The popular styles were not high heeled "stripper" style shoes or any other real "shocking" heels etc. The most popular styles were sneakers or "Doc Martin" style boots/shoes that were just like regular ones except with a thicker sole. These were often refered to as "Chunky" soled shoes. â€" Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.11.91.140 (talk) 21:47, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
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