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Women from the Ankle Down

The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us

Rachelle Bergstein

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Rachelle Bergstein

Rachelle Bergstein graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in English Literature at Vassar College. Upon graduation, she moved to Brooklyn where she worked as a cocktail waitress before setting into an entry-level job at a literary agency; she has worked in publishing for the past seven years. Women from the Ankle Down is her first book.
 
 



 

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  • 9780062097071
  • 5/29/2012
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"A lively look at the history of stilettos, sneakers and sundry other leather- and rubber-soled objects of swoon."


- Olivia Barker, USA Today
"If style defines the woman, and shoes a woman's style, then ooh la la, here's the definitive history and guide-everything from Chinese bound feet to Ferragamo, from Hollywood favorites to running up one's credit card on the sine qua non of fashion."


- Mireille Guiliano, author of French Women Don't Get Fat
"If you could glimpse the passing parade of the last hundred years or so from behind a slightly raised curtain, you'd have a pretty good idea of what's going on in this richly anecdotal history of shoes."


- Amanda Lovell, More Magazine
"[Bergstein's] entertaining book wears its research as lightly as a pair of strappy sandals."


- Tricia Springstubb, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"At last someone has dared to probe one of the most mystifying phenomena in our culture: what's the deal with women and shoes? Rachelle Bergstein starts from the ground up and tells us-with wit and brio-a lot about society from an unusual and original perspective."


- Ron Rosenbaum, author The Shakespeare Wars and How the End Begins:The Road to a Nuclear World War III
"As a woman who walks, I've often wondered why I don't wear more sensible shoes. Now I know. Rachelle Bergstein has written a compulsively readable history: it won't keep you from buying an absurdly uncomfortable and expensive pair, but it will make you understand why you're doing it."


- Ruth Reichl, author of Garlic and Sapphires
"[An] engaging, toe-to-heel study....From flats a la Audrey Hepburn, Keds and white go-go- boots, Tommy-era platforms, and Jane Fonda's Reebok Freestyles, to Sex and the City's pricey Manolo Blahniks and Jimmy Choo's, Bergstein ably runs the gamut of styles over the decades."


- Publishers Weekly
"Engaging..A charmingly interwoven story of the past 100 years, detailing a bit of the psychology behind different styles as well as the fame that drives the fates of a variety of soles and heels."


- Booklist
"With humor, zest, and bulls-eye knowledge of fashion, Rachelle Bergstein has given us far more than the ultimate shoe story. She has given us the history of American style in delectable microcosm."


- Sam Wasson, author of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
"An entertaining journey through the social history of shoes and the people who have worn them....Well-written and well-referenced..Recommended to all fashion followers as well as those who enjoy the ankle-down approach to studying our high-end material culture."


- Holly Hebert, Library Journal