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Contrary to a popular belief in changeability of female nature, the novel with high heels proceeds at a fine half of mankind already some honeycombs of years. Heels give feminity, improve a figure, help to feel a life on “all hundred”. They fashionable, beautiful and dangerous tools of female appeal. From the very beginning occurrence of heels could be caused two principal causes:

1) the decorative purposes (increase in growth of the carrier of heels),

2) the practical requirements dictated by definite purposes of use of heels in a daily life.

So, by people at footwear manufacturing it has been noticed, that its that part which adjoins to a heel, it is used up much faster the others. Therefore gradually on a sole and in a back part of footwear there was some thickening serving to the practical purpose of increase of service life of footwear. However on this historical moment still it is impossible to speak about occurrence of heels as some special "support" under footwear.

Meanwhile, scientists yet have not absolutely found out, whence conducts the origin a fashion on heels.

In Ancient Egypt footwear made of the papyrus. Carry it at an early stage of statehood the Pharaoh and its confidants could only. It is interesting, that the spouse of the Pharaoh did not concern number of confidants and went barefoot. Such sandals kingly cost. Gerodot has somehow written, that on manufacturing of one pair sandals for the Pharaoh the revenue of an average city left.

To Egypt the history is obliged also by the heel invention without which it is impossible to present modern footwear. Them not Pharaohs and priests, and simple grain-growers whom heels created a necessary emphasis that it was easier to move on the friable earth However, carried.

Notable Romans at first put on feet something like gloves (them pulled on each finger). Then it the Greek sandals have attracted — and has begun! Sandals modernised, on them there were embroideries, metal ornaments in the form of lion's muzzles, chains, wreaths etc.

There was a special footwear for plebeians, philosophers, for Senate visiting. Chaste ladies needed to have the closed footwear, and women of easy behaviour carried sandals — to show beauty of the feet. The appreciable contribution to footwear history was brought also by Ancient Greek heteras. Under their order shoemakers lined with nails footwear so that it left traces with an inscription “Follow me”.

The following period of time when we see loan of practice of carrying of footwear on a heel, concerns by 15-16 centuries. For this century – centuries of the Renaissance – the underlined aspiration upwards, an eminence of the person symbolising by self over the validity (from here and the form of Gothic architecture of that time aspiring upwards) in general was characteristic. This aspiration has well proved and in a fashion on footwear. So, the big distribution was received by shoes – chopine which represented similarity of sandals on a platform executed from a tree or a stopper. The height of heels of such "sandals" was magnificent – from 14 to 60 see it is necessary to be surprised only how noble ladies could keep balance on such stilts. Though, of course, such fashion played on a hand to their companions which had a chance in literal sense on a step not to release from itself the girlfriend. Such adherence to "self-eminence" has allowed an occasion to traveller John Evelinu to characterise women of that time in the diary as ladies «half from a flesh, half from a tree». Though, for the sake of justice it is necessary to notice, that such extravagant fashion has concerned not only women; men too willingly got for themselves such sandals (though, the height of their platforms was much less).

All world has apprehended this fashion as a certain similarity of circus representation, however already in the end of 16 - the beginning of 17 centuries of the woman of Spain, France and Sweden is proud paced in precisely same sandals.

The French revolution of 1789 has deprived of ladies of high heels almost for 50 years. Ladies' shoes of a Napoleonic epoch remind modern ballet slippers. Europe was captured by idea of "simplification" of a way of life. Doctors, philosophers, vysokolobye intellectuals have openly opposed unhealthy corsets, narrow shoes on high heels and, strangely enough, have won. In the Parisian streets there were ladies with a short hairstyle, in dresses from thin fabrics and in sandals on a flat sole. But to newly made emperor Napoleon Bonaparte such fashion has not attracted. The fashion has reversed, and bulky crinolines have returned to clothes of the Parisian beauties and “a waist in a corset”, and. And heels remained in exile. All the matter is that is good for dancing ability at that time was considered obligatory, and what can be more convenient for dances, than silk shoes-slippers on a thin leather sole?

And only in the end of 19 centuries the high heel has drawn again attention of fashion designers, but already as a symbol of female appeal.

Certainly, speaking about a fashion origin on a heel, it is necessary to mention such absolutely recent invention which, nevertheless, has made revolution in representation about aesthetic properties of footwear, – about the heel-hairpin invention. There was it in the fifties in France when the set of fashion designers worked in a direction of creation of the models underlining a youth and beauty of women. Here again besides the name of the inventor remains under cover of a history gloom: so, at once some known fashion designers of France argue on superiority of creation of the given model of footwear. Shoes on a hairpin had as never by the way. And it is very fast practically all stars sported them, setting an example to other women of a planet.

Now, also as well as it is a lot of years back, women carry heels to be allocated from crowd, to underline the fragility and grace. The fashion history on heels is not added yet, she still waits for the enthusiastic admirers.