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I get a kick out of women's shoes--the protrusions and spikes, the high fashion toes like ship's prows and the platforms like personal podiums. Bergstein's debut book on how shoes define women offers the reader a celebrity-infused history of our relationship to footwear. The diversity of shoes reflects something more than function and personal style; our choices are inextricably laced with desire and identified with social currency.
Bergstein begins with Farragamo's humble beginnings in a small I...more
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Toni
Jun 03, 2012 Toni rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Shelves: 2012, fashion, history, sociology
The title and premise of this book are a little misleading. Or maybe my expectations were a little off. This was really a mini-history of shoes from the 20th century, beginning with the arrival of Salvatore Ferragamo on the scene and in America. Bergstein chooses to tell this story mainly through the tales of some iconic shoes: Dorothy's "ruby" slippers, stilettos (of course), Birkenstocks, Chuck Taylor's, etc.
While I did learn a few things (Ferragamo's history was really interesting), this fel...more
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Margaret Sankey
Aug 08, 2012 Margaret Sankey rated it 3 of 5 stars
Bergstein frames the social and popular culture history of women in the 20th century through iconic shoes--Ferragamo, Hollywood and the first mass marketed luxury brand (disclaimer--I buy Ferragamo 8.5AAAA), the ruby slippers and the Depression, wartime rationing and cork wedges, Dior and the New Look's stilettos of conspicuous consumption, Audrey Hepburn's beatnik ballet flats, hippies and Birkenstocks, disco and platform shoes, Jane Fonda's aerobic Reeboks, grunge and Doc Martens and Carrie's...more
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Christine
Jan 26, 2013 Christine rated it 1 of 5 stars
Everything said and related here is interesting on the level of a well written and well edited magazine feature. None of it belongs in a book; this is what fashion mags should be but aren't.
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Laura
Jun 18, 2012 Laura is currently reading it
I loved it. forget 50 shades of grey, shoe porn is for me.
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Elizabeth
Oct 14, 2012 Elizabeth rated it 1 of 5 stars
Only got as far as page 98. The book starts with the history of Ferragamo and I was interested in his story. I liked the tidbits of shoes in the movies and how they played an influential part in what women wore as well as setting the tone for a scene and the personality of a character. Sounds like a good book, huh? I just couldn't get past the authors opinion of women in the past being miserable and suppressed by their husbands. I admit that there was lots of that going on, but not all women wer...more
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Chelsi
Jun 25, 2012 Chelsi rated it 3 of 5 stars
I got this book from Goodreads.com advanced reader giveaways****
I was really excited to have won this book from the giveaways section on goodreads because I love to read non-fiction books on random topics. This book is all about shoes, and though every girl knows some shoe basics, I never knew so many interesting stories about shoes existed. Each chapter focused on a different time period and on a different types of shoes. Usually, the chapter included a lot of pop culture too, which I will adm...more
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Bridget
Jul 04, 2012 Bridget rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: 2012-reads
I had read a review of this book, and was intrigued, so I borrowed a copy from the library. I should qualify this by saying that a) I am fascinated with the history of clothing, and b) one of the ways in which I am a stereotypical woman is that I love shoes.
This is a very readable social history of women's shoes, and I found it to be really interesting. For instance, I didn't know that until the mid-nineteenth century, only well-to-do people had shoes that we made for one foot or the other. I al...more
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Meg - A Bookish Affair
Aug 09, 2013 Meg - A Bookish Affair rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Shelves: 2013, politics-history, non-fiction
"Women from the Ankle Down" is a history of shoes with a focus on the 20th century. While it's mostly about women's shoes, there's some about men's footwear as well. I'm not a shoe person by any means (jewelry and purses are my personal poison) but I think the off-the-beaten-path history is always really fun to read about.
This book isn't purely just a history of shoes. It's an engaging book full of anecdotes and pop culture. I thought it was really cool how Bergstein was able to show how shoes c...more
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Laurie
May 21, 2012 Laurie rated it 4 of 5 stars
This history of (mainly) women’s shoes pretty much starts in 1900, the point in history when women’s skirts became short enough to show their shoes, and when the making of shoes changed from a craftsman’s job of creating one pair at a time to factories that made hundreds of pairs in a day. This lowered the price of shoes to the point where the average person could afford more than one pair of shoes, and shoe obsessions could begin.
The author intersperses biographies of famous shoemakers- Ferrag...more
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Lisa
Oct 28, 2012 Lisa rated it 2 of 5 stars
One thing I was reminded of while reading this book: I really need a new pair of classic black pumps.
First of all, Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us by Rachelle Bergstein is really a book about women’s shoes. There are mentions of men’s shoes, but not many — let’s face it, men’s shoes are boring. Most of this book is about women’s shoes and how they evolved and what influenced them.
There is a lot of interesting information in this book about modern shoes. If yo...more
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Kara Jorges
Dec 31, 2012 Kara Jorges rated it 4 of 5 stars
When I saw there was a book about women and their shoes, I knew I wanted to read it. This book is about much more than that, though, telling the history of twentieth century western culture through footwear.
Those of us who never had to live through war rationing don't usually give a lot of thought to supply and demand, but this book highlights how such things can dictate fashion when it tells the story of Salvatore Ferragamo and his invention of the wedgie. I also never knew how important Ferrag...more
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Diana
Feb 28, 2013 Diana rated it 4 of 5 stars
Hovering between 3.5 and 4 stars on this one..no especially groundbreaking or brand new information here, but a light, fun romp through the cultural history of shoes, that explores the relationship between women and their footwear. Made me wonder why I walked past the Bata Shoe Museum every day on my way to grad school and didn't ever go in! Inspired me to make a visit to Toronto for that very purpose in the near future. If you're into Sex and the City, loved the book Shoe Addicts Anonymous.
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