Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Platform shoe" in English language version.
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...[F]rom Delman's Paris design studios,...[n]ailhead platform sole, high-quality kid...sandal...
...[F]rom Delman's Paris design studios,...1938-39 innovations are the Dutch sabots...
...[F]rom Delman's Paris design studios,...[h]ole in [wooden wedge] heel [of sandal with wooden platform]...
Many [sabots] have rocker-bottom heels...
...[F]rom Delman's Paris design studios,...'Stop-and-Go' [platform] shoe has a battery and bulb in [wedge] heel which flashes red on one side, green on the other with each step.
...[F]rom Delman's Paris design studios,...[s]croll-like [lacquered wood] heels and [lacquered wood platform]...make an...evening sandal...
About 15% of all spring shoes have platform soles.
1980-1989: John was (possibly) the first person to sell Doc Martens in North America....Sometimes he'd take the idea and embellish them. One of his first adaptations had leopard print and pink pony skin uppers.
When the first sample came out, a woman who worked at the [shoe] factory in London walked by and said Wow, that's a Munster shoe, which is how they got their name....[I]n New York...they really seemed to groove with the club scene that was happening.
1990: Lady Miss Kier wears a pair of Munsters on the cover of Deee-Lite's debut album...
Madonna...[wore them]...in her first film/documentary Truth or Dare [1991]...
...[I]n 1983,...Bowery began to create...the 'Paki from Outer Space' look. This look included platform shoes, painted silver or bronze...Michael Clark...wore...silver platform shoes...
Extraordinary things are happening to soles. The platform that made its fashion entry on the beaches, in stilt-like proportions, has been whittled down to a moderate height that makes it wearable and good-looking for the street. It...is of materials so light that it is flexible and has a bit of a spring as one walks.
...the quarter-inch platform sole on street and evening shoes...
The platform...permits of the introduction of color in shoes.
In one, heel and platform contrast in color with the upper, made of perforated suède. Combinations are navy or black with wine, black suède with black patent leather, brown with tan, dark green with lighter green.
Platform soles are more the vogue than ever, and perhaps one of the reasons is that...they have been found to be very practical. That...thick sole...acts as a cushion...The thick sole is expected to keep out...wet...too.
Platform shoes in all heel heights were shown...
...[W]ooden platforms...are permissible...
Non-rationed shoes...use...synthetic and plastic soles...[A] sling-back pump...boasts a platform sole...
The Office of Price Administration announced today that a limited group of 'play' shoes...would be released from ration control...Shoes with a platform and with a heel height of 1 1/2 inches or less whose upper is made wholly of fabric...
The [War Production Board]'s order...will...'cut down' leather platforms on women's shoes. Reductions in these platforms alone, it was estimated, will 'save a foot of leather in each of more than 15,000,000 pairs of shoes'.
...[M]ulti-colored bands laced through studs on platform soles...[T]he wooden soles were half an inch high.
The 'blackout' shoe is beginning to make its appearance....Another designer is working on a platform shoe whose heels will be painted with a luminous chemical.
High platforms...are now on hand in quantity.
Vivier's new collection...seems to stem from the nineteen-forties, although he quietly denies it. The most important shoe has a platform sole...[T]he heel is narrow on top and then widens....He believes attention should be drawn to the heel as long as so much limb is uncovered.
...[C]logs...were summer's No. 1 fashion fad...Most shoe designers have translated them into platform soles....[O]xford...set on a tall, covered platform sole and a high stacked heel....[P]latform sole and enormous heel, both of cork, put [shoe] right into the clog class.
A substantial part of the under-30 generation is clumping around town on thick soles and high heels, walking stiff-leggedly as if on stilts....[M]iniskirted and blue-jeaned girls raised up on 4-inch heels and 2-inch soles.
'...the new styles provide a greater stability than the spindly spike heels of yesteryear'...
...[T]he heels aren't the spindly, needle‐like variety that caught in subway grates. They're thick enough to look sturdy.
You couldn't wear...shorts...in the streets...20 years ago [1951]...because women all had heavy foundation garments on...
...[T]he models...wear...high cork wedgies...with nailheads and...thongs that tie around the ankle and half the leg.
This year's...Forties...peaked shoulders, platform soles, box pleated dresses, tight black satin and wildly dyed chunky fur jackets turn up in collection after collection...
'Although the new styles provide a greater stability than the spindly spike heels of yesteryear, platforms increase the chances of a fall because of the lack of ankle support and because people are not used to the "bucket-on-each-foot" feeling that comes from wearing them,' [the vice president of the American Podiatry Association] said.
There's a new fashion malady afoot these days: the broken-bone syndrome. It's...a direct result of those stilt-like platform shoes that are teetering all over the sidewalks...
The Podiatry Society of the State of New York paid [consumer advocate] Ralph Nader to be its guest speaker...at its annual conference...Nader...assailed...the 'ultimate idiocy' of platform shoes...
...[O]ne of the prime promoters of the platform shoe has given them up. Norma Kamali, owner of the avant-garde Kamali boutique..., maintains that by autumn the platform shoe will be passé. She has ordered all her fall shoes with just plain soles.
Sling‐back espadrille in navy canvas has open toe, platform sole....An acid green espadrille is set on a high, high sole, has leather ties.
Famolare, Inc., is manufacturing 150,000 pairs a month of its Get There shoes. The shoe has a sole trademarked Wave,...a positive shock‐absorbing heel that propels the walker and creates a fluidity of rolling motion. The wavy bottoms have attracted considerable attention in the shoe trade....The sole...has four waves, one under the heel, another under the toe, and two in between.
Jean Muir interrupted the serenity of her perfect black jersey dresses with silver leather platform pumps...
Diane Brill, one of the...Gaultier...models, fell off the stage as she was prancing around on her lacquered platform shoes...
...[T]he biggest fashion craze since punk. It's Acid House, named for a London nightclub...[D]esigners...are basing whole lines on the style...The look includes... lots of those sunny smiley-face logos so popular in the early 70's....A similar retro scene...turns up...in various New York spaces...Susanne Bartsch...wears gigantic smile buttons on her hot pants.
Susanne Bartsch...danced in cutoff denim hot pants, platform shoes, peace buttons, smile buttons...
The waiters [at a London cafè] are young and hip, clad in jeans, Dr. Martens...
[Lionel] Cros first attracted attention in 1986 when he nailed decorative metal plates onto Dr. Martens shoes...
...[T]he 1970s...is the fashion inspiration for young Londoners who congregate...at Camden Lock market, which sells platform-soled shoes...
Vanessa Paradis...has made...Roland Simmonds...platform ankle boots a hot item.
Long skirts...are...the rage [in Paris], especially when they are very long and black and unzipped provocatively, swirling above precarious platform shoes.
...Vivienne Westwood added a three-inch platform [to biker boots].
...Vivienne Westwood...models still stagger around on high-platform pumps, which gives an alarming tilt to some of her clothes...
..Vivienne Westwood...models...teetered out on platform soles...
Pam Hogg...tartan...high-heeled platform-soled ankle boots.
...Tracy Feith...models tripped, stumbled and barely made it to the end of the runway, hobbled by towering platform shoes bound to their ankles.
There were outlandish costumes by designers BodyMap and Trojan....and underground icon Leigh Bowery...in 10-inch [platform] heels....Michael Clark...danced...in platform shoes.
Picture of a classic 1970s men's platform shoe for going out dancing at a disco from an Internet wardrobe costume rental site.
[S]tatus jeans, with a designer label prominent on the rear pocket, are strictly an invention of 1978. And a hot sales ticket as well.
[T]he hottest single seller to step out in a long time is the Candie, a cha-cha heel on a plastic sole held in place only by a wide leather vamp. Shoe Scene has sold 3,200 pairs in two stores; the maker, El Greco, has sold 2 million pairs in three months....[Girls] wear them with their jeans...They are sexy and...they are comfortable. Because of the molded sole the heel isn't as high as it looks.
Picture of a classic 1970s men's platform shoe for going out dancing at a disco from an Internet wardrobe costume rental site.
[Vivienne Westwood models wear low-heeled or flat platform shoes with little-girl-like mini-crini outfits.]
[Adeline Andre models wear simple flat pumps on high, tapered platforms.]
[One Audibet shoe is a simple low-heeled, high-vamped, satin-looking pump on a very sculptural tall, waisted pedestal platform.]
Gaultier's three-inch-high-platform evening shoes sporting satin ankle straps. [The platform is sharply tapered and sculpted, resembling some styles from the late 1930s. The foot sits nearly flat.]
Mugler's...[i]ceberg platform shoes. [Sharply tapered platforms with very high stiletto heels, all sculpted in transparent plastic for an aquatic look as part of an oceanic-themed show.]
Patrick Cox for John Galliano...At John Galliano,...the toes of a pair of work shoes had a circle of leather cut out to reveal the shiny steel plates underneath.
