PhotoAt the avant-garde retail temple Opening Ceremony, which opened in 2002, fanciful sneakers, slippers and oxfords greatly outnumber high heels. As Prohibition and temperance reform swept the United States in the 1920s, high heels became a topic of legislation. “If you’re not asking guys to wear heels and a dress,” she told the Hollywood Reporter, “then you cannot ask me either.” (She wore heels. “I love wearing high heels — I think it’s beautiful, it’s sexy, whatever,” she said. In the film “Jurassic World” starring Bryce Dallas Howard, her character outruns a Tyrannosaurus rex in high heels.

Source: New York Times December 16, 2017 10:52 UTC