the.com/platform boot
Footwear that adds inches and attitude, defying gravity one stacked sole at a time.
means A shoe or boot with a thick, raised sole and often a high heel, lifting the wearer noticeably off the ground.
from "Platform" comes through French plateforme — literally a "flat form" or flat shape — built from plat ("flat," a cousin of "plate" and "plateau") and forme ("form"). "Boot" arrived in Middle English as bote, borrowed from Old French bote, of uncertain earlier origin. Elevated soles themselves are ancient — the Greek tragic actor's high-soled kothornos and the towering Venetian chopine both raised their wearers literally and socially — but the pairing "platform" with footwear is a 20th-century habit, surging into common speech with the thick-soled fashions of the 1930s and again, unforgettably, in the 1970s.
- ancient roots
- Greek actors wore platform kothorni to tower onstage
- venetian peak
- Chopines reached 20 inches, requiring servants to walk
- glam rock
- David Bowie and KISS turned them into armor
- safety angle
- Originally raised feet above mud and sewage streets
- disco icon
- 1970s clubs ran on glittered platforms and bravado
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