few years ago it was called "The wears the trousers," if you wanted to say that a woman no longer content with their traditional role was. Today does not fit the women are (thankfully) emancipated. Roger Cicero even sang very correct "wives The Spring", but not all wear pants. There was even a renaissance of the skirt. The true power symbol of the rule of women over men is therefore not the pants, but the boots.
boots are indeed fundamentally a practical footwear when you traipse around in the mud or in the sty. You can put the leg into the shaft so that the pants clean and / or dry. Also for riding boots, there are practical reasons that close to me as a non-rider, however. A fashion item but they were well into the 20th Century not.
remarkable is that men wear today in everyday life as well as never-high boots, women have it. And what what! In some models would each trooper boots from the 30 Years War almost envious. See for example here:
High boots were always a symbol of power. An early example of this is passed on from Roman history. Julius Caesar was Pontifex Maximus as - to attract entitled to certain religious ceremonies, the costumes of the kings of Alba Longa - that as a Roman pontiff. (Short rack:... Was Alba Longa, a town in Latium, which had been founded by Iulus allegedly the son of the Trojan Aeneas, Aeneas was regarded as the progenitor of the Roman people insertion end) for this outfit were high red boots. The Roman normal shoes (even the caligae , the soldiers boots or sandals better fight the Legion) sufficient only to the ankle, up the boots of the kings of Alba Longa contrast to the knee. In the last months of his life Caesar wore these boots every day in public. This fad (the novelist Colleen McCullough says that Caesar had worn the boots for his varicose veins - support stockings there were not yet) was ultimately a reason for Caesar's assassination! For some of the senators thought that Caesar would demonstrate with these boots his claim to the title King of the Romans. For the Romans it was a taboo - the result is known.
That boots over the centuries a symbol of power and strength remained, is easy to see. After all, who wore the Botten sat mostly on the high horse. For kings and emperors, there were even special ornate coronation boots. That nowadays practically around boots only women with this type of shoe (on the sexual connotations of boots as a fetish object, I would like here only on the edge - as a dominatrix without boots is even conceivable?), Clearly shows that the men of the battle of the sexes have finally lost. Caesar is dead shuffling men, women boots.
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