{"id":14494,"date":"2009-10-19T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=14494"},"modified":"2009-11-29T15:22:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T20:22:59","slug":"changing-fashion-standards-sexy-shoes-from-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/19\/changing-fashion-standards-sexy-shoes-from-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Fashion Standards: Sexy Shoes from 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Harnisch of <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/thedailymirror\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Mirror<\/a> sent in this ad, which appeared in the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> on September 5, 1969:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14495 aligncenter\" title=\"Picture 1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/Picture-12.png\" alt=\"Picture 1\" width=\"285\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/Picture-12.png 285w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/Picture-12-245x499.png 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14496 aligncenter\" title=\"Picture 2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/Picture-21.png\" alt=\"Picture 2\" width=\"286\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Text from the top of the ad:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Does S&amp;A really stand for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">S<\/span>ex <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">A<\/span>ppeal?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and how! Our shoes are so sexy we only allow mature thinking adults to buy them&#8230;or young adults accompanied by a parent. When you wear S&amp;A shoes, people will stare at your legs who were never never aware that you had any before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great example of how quickly fashion standards can change. Today I&#8217;m pretty sure most, if not all, of these shoes would be considered old-fashioned and wouldn&#8217;t be marketed as sexy. Our ideas of what constitutes a &#8220;sexy&#8221; woman&#8217;s shoe today includes a higher, thinner heel, meaning they&#8217;re also in general less stable, harder to walk in, and worse for your feet than shoes with a chunky heel like these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Harnisch of The Daily Mirror sent in this ad, which appeared in the Los Angeles Times on September 5, 1969: Text from the top of the ad: Does S&amp;A really stand for Sex Appeal? &#8230;and how! Our shoes are so sexy we only allow mature thinking adults to buy them&#8230;or young adults accompanied by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,55,2102,253,120,23705],"class_list":["post-14494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-gender-history","tag-history","tag-sex","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17164,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494\/revisions\/17164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}