Today's post is directly connected to yesterday's and to Friday's. It refers indeed to another pair of shoes I discovered in the Dal Co's archives.
The shoes in question belonged to somebody regarded in Italy as quite an interesting and rather controversial character, Adelina Tattilo.
As stated in another post linking pornography and fashion, Tattilo was a sort of Italian Maurice Girodias (of Olympia Press fame).
She founded indeed in 1967 erotic magazine Playmen, a publication that in Italy became even more famous and popular than Playboy.
I couldn't resist asking Dal Co's Creative Director Silvia (well, as usual, I begged...) to take a picture of the shoes since in a way they perfectly proved my theory about seduction, elegance and high heels.
Look at the shape and silhouette of these bespoke navy lizard and kid leather shoes (the colour made me think about the background of this February 1968 issue of Playmen) and you will clearly realise they were made for walking, even though they are still extremely sensual.
In a nutshell, while you could perfectly seduce a man while wearing them, you could also wear them to the office and lead an important board meeting in them (you could easily imagine somebody as powerful as Anna Wintour wearing them in fact...).
Guess that, if this was the sort of footwear favoured by the controversial editrix of a girly magazine up until a few years ago (Tattilo died in 2007), then we, as modern women do not really need to wear ugly and crippling platform shoes in garish colours to get noticed and seduce men, do we?
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