Posted at Mar 26/2006 05:24PM:
Sebastian De Vivo: Kristen, this is a great project! I enjoyed the tour you gave us of the high heel (and btw, highly doubt the high heels for men will be very popular). My one comment is, I would've like to see a bit more of you through the body of the project -- you disappeared a bit in the quotations. You made your questions clear at the outset, and used photos to illustrate your points well. Navigation was clear, your timeline was solid, and you engaged with the issues raised in class, particularly the cyborg theme. I enjoyed your project -- great job!
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Posted at Feb 27/2006 04:49PM:
Arielle Lasky: I dont know if you are going to go this direction, but you might want to talk a bit about the logistical--ie painful--aspects of wearing stilettos. They make you taller, but they restrict you from doing certain activities (ie running). You could draw interesting comparisons to footbinding, etc.
Posted at Feb 27/2006 10:25PM:
Jennifer Ladd: According to this month's The New York Times Style Magazine, a great pair of high heels are "better than sex" and "not since the 16th century, when Venetian courtesans tottered about in chopines, have shoes been quite this satisfying" (about this season's new, incredibly high stilettos and wedges)
Posted at Mar 13/2006 05:45PM:
Kiah J. Williams: Another interesting topic: the physical damage and why that doesn't seem to mean anyhting to any of us women. Like dancers, high heels can actually contort your toes and make them crooked. Why is it that that doesn't seem to matter to us?
Posted at Mar 14/2006 12:33AM:
Chun Kai Wang: I am not too sure, if the histories are related but i think it would be interesting to compare the idea of high heels and the ancient Chinese idea of bounding a girls foot to keep it small as a sign of status.
Posted at Mar 18/2006 02:27PM:
Michael Smith: I'm looking at another cyborg-type product: contact lenses. Their main purpose has traditionally been a useful one, much like shoes. However, you can get "cosmetic" lenses to change the color of your eyes now. It would be interesting to explore the universal progression of something useful changing to something decorative and not all that practical. We even saw that with the handaxes at the beginning of the quarter.
