History of Shoes during the 1940's

Andre Perguia was a French Shoe designer. He was born in Nice, France in 1893. He would train in his dad's workshop learning how to make shoes. Then in 1909 he opened a shop in Paris where he would design hand made shoes. He wrote a book " From Eva to Rita Hayworth", in which he stated. " the way to study a woman's personality was to study her feet". He then began to design,
" fetish shoes" as you can see from the image. The heel was over 6 inches and he originally designed these shoes for a famous Parisian signer named Mistiguett. During this time "fetish shoes" was the mark that in people minds they worshiped feet and shoes. High stiletto shoes were very popukar during the 1930's and were considered a fetish and very sexy, which they still are to this day.