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Shoes by Raissa Bretaña: A Book Review

Shoes is written by Raissa Bretaña, a New-York city based fashion historian. In it, Bretaña shows “the evolution of women’s fashionable footwear over the course of four centuries…(p. 9)” It has 250 pictures of “the finest examples” of shoes from the 17th century to the 21st century, which were selected from museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (p. 9). I enjoyed the book for the most part. One reason I enjoyed this book was because I found the shoes beautiful. I have a few pictures of my favorites below.                                                                      The second reason I enjoyed the book was because of the interesting historical facts the author mentioned. For instance, in the 17th century, Louis XIV made an edict that the talon rouge (red heel) was to be reserved for royalty (p. 32-3...
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Stick gazed at what was happening. He had appeared atop a green hill. All around him, flowers spontaneously appeared out of thin air. A sun swirled into being in the blue sky and started radiating sunbeams. Clouds began hovering above him. Two black squiggly birds flew over him. Wonderful.

Suddenly, the sun vanished! White space was in its stead. The whiteness devoured the clouds, sky, birds, hills and flowers, and it was about to devour him! He wanted to get away! But the white devourer was upon him!

Miriam erased the stick figure. That drawing was terrible! She’d start over.

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