What is it about a pair of shoes that so enchants women of all
ages, demographics, political affiliations, and style tribes? Part
social history, part fashion record, part pop-culture celebration,
Women from the Ankle Down seeks to answer that question as it
unfolds the story of shoes in the twentieth century. The tale
begins in the rural village of Bonito, Italy, with a visionary
young shoemaker named Salvatore Ferragamo, and ends in New York
City, with a fictional socialite and trendsetter named Carrie
Bradshaw. Along the way it stops in Hollywood, where Judy Garland
first slipped on her ruby slippers; New Jersey, where Nancy Sinatra
heard something special in a song about boots; and the streets of
Manhattan, where a transit strike propelled women to step into new
cutting-edge athletic shoes. Fashion aficionado Rachelle Bergstein
shares the stories behind these historical moments, interweaving
the design innovations and social changes that gave each one its
lasting significance and appeal. Bergstein shows how the story of
shoes is the story of women, told from the ankle down. Beginning
with the well-heeled Suffragettes in the 1910s, women have fought
for greater freedom and mobility, a struggle that exploded in the
1960s with the Women's Liberation Movement, and culminated in the
new millennium with our devotion to personal choice. Featuring
interviews with designers, historians, and cultural experts, and a
cast of real life characters from Marilyn Monroe to Jane Fonda,
Women from the Ankle Down is a lively, compelling look at the
evolution of modern women and the fashion that reflects - and has
shaped - their changing lives.
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