Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us Paperback - 2013
by Bergstein, Rachelle
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- Title Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us
- Author Bergstein, Rachelle
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2013
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0061969680I3N00
- ISBN 9780061969683 / 0061969680
- Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.35 x 0.76 in (20.27 x 13.59 x 1.93 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Dewey Decimal Code 391.413
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From the rear cover
What is it about a pair of shoes that so enchants women of all ages, demographics, political affiliations, and style tribes? Part social history, part fashion record, part pop-culture celebration, Women from the Ankle Down seeks to answer that question as it unfolds the story of shoes in the twentieth century.
The tale begins in the rural village of Bonito, Italy, with a visionary young shoemaker named Salvatore Ferragamo, and ends in New York City with a fictional socialite and trendsetter named Carrie Bradshaw. Along the way it stops in Hollywood, where Judy Garland first slipped on her ruby slippers; New Jersey, where Nancy Sinatra heard something special in a song about boots; and the streets of Manhattan, where a transit strike propelled women to step into new cutting-edge athletic shoes. Featuring interviews with designers, historians, and cultural experts, and a cast of real-life characters, from Marilyn Monroe to Jane Fonda, from Gwen Stefani to Manolo Blahnik, Women from the Ankle Down is an entertaining, compelling look at the evolution of modern women and the fashion that reflects--and has shaped--their changing lives.
