Pumps

Design House Herbert Levine Inc. American

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Popularized in the 1950s, the stiletto, or spike heel, was a nearly invisible support that introduced a hobbling sway to a woman's walk. The style's most significant aesthetic innovation was not its height but its ability to attenuate almost into insubstantiality.

Pumps, Herbert Levine Inc. (American, founded 1949), silk, American

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