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Show High Heels an Old Fashion. According to books on costumes of the past centuries high heels were worn by women during the reign of Charles II, In the Fourteenth century. They seem to have attained their greatest helKUt wid popularity In the relpi of Louis XIV and Louis XV of France. Inirlng the latter period dress accessories were greatly exaggerated, exag-gerated, the headdress being sometimes some-times several feet In height, and the width of the dresses and the height of the heels of shoes exaggerated accordingly. accord-ingly. It Is probable that the term "Louis" clung to the highest French heels for this reason. |