{"id":6122,"date":"2009-06-15T13:59:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T17:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=6122"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:37:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T00:37:34","slug":"horses-hooves-as-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/6122\/horses-hooves-as-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse’s Hooves as Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

And it hit me…inspired by horses’ hooves.<\/p>\n

Here’s a hoof.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the Nina Ricci shoe design which literally gives you a foot up in height<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I read these shoes are “surprisingly easy to walk in”. Here’s the supposed proof in the below video where each model is one misstep from an ankle cast.<\/p>\n

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I was just entertained by suddenly seeing into the mind of the designer. “Yes, horse legs! They should have horse legs!” Somewhere there are introductory sketches with horse masks and tails.<\/p>\n

Note that the several hats we see in the video appear to be variations on an equestrian’s helmet.<\/p>\n

This video<\/a> of a woman walking the runway in the shoes is actually pretty cool. She appears to have it down. Still, the slightest misstep and an ankle is either broken or you’ve got a good sprain taking you out for a while. (Can almost imagine how Jean Cocteau might have used these in a film.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And it hit me…inspired by horses’ hooves. Here’s a hoof. Here’s the Nina Ricci shoe design which literally gives you a foot up in height. I read these shoes are “surprisingly easy to walk in”. Here’s the supposed proof in the below video where each model is one misstep from an ankle cast. I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[313],"class_list":["post-6122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-youtube-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}