It is this closed shoe that will reduce it

To avoid the missteps, the entry in the summer 2006 in shoes. Not in the boilerplate version: closed and barely décolletée in black box, with twin-set and Pearl necklace. Playful, they are parent now a scarf of taffeta ankle at Sonia Rykiel, a node on the tip of the foot in Christian Louboutin, of a shoelace in Tod's. Colours and materials Slam: patent leather fuschia gansé black in Prada, electric green sequins in Rodolphe Ménudier, parme snake in Calvin Klein. On the side of heel, the Trotter on 4 cm Belle of day is excluded. Minimum required: 9-10 cm, such as those in mosaic mirror Golden in Viktor & Rolf, Zanotti cork or comma-shaped signed Roger Vivier. The break with classicism is consumed when tap-dance to offset that, in Dries Van Noten, rebrodés flowers.

Without moderation, it hybridizes also with the sandal, this shoe is reduced to almost nothing, just a sole and straps. Tap-dance is then opened at the end of the foot, what glimpse a toe as in Marc Jacobs. Reminiscent of the designs worn by Hollywood starlets in the 1950s. Sling back, it is open to the rear and simply maintained by a bride like Michel Vivien or Dior pure pink leather braided model. In the 1960s, Jackie Kennedy in would have raffolé. Bruno Frisoni, the inner foothills is heavily indented, or even cut out... Extremely sensual, it seems to say "come to see". For purists, its declensions are often unworthy of the term to tap-dance. "Because the essence of this shoe is out of whack, said Emmanuelle Kerdaffrec, leather goods, footwear and leather style Office.". Originally, a tap-dance is called tap-dance because it is produced in a single piece of leather. As this rising men's closed shoe worn by the promenaded in the 19th century and made famous by the Earl of Orsay.

It is an architecture

A priori, a tap-dance, a true real, is devoid of any cut, barrette or opening. "It is very simple in appearance but particularly difficult to achieve, says at Charles Jourdan." It is an architecture and the slightest imperfection is obvious: 1 mm more or less on the charm and the décolleté is broken. "The creator Michel Vivien recalls that, in the 1970s, in these early days in Carel,"it was considering ten on a tap-dance which it wanted to change a neckline or height. " Because it seems that a good Shoemaker recognizes in his shoes. The evidence with Roger Vivier, including the mythical model to large chrome loop posed in front of the foot was first released in 1965. He then accompanied the Yves Saint Laurent Mondrian dress. Catherine Deneuve I then the shoe in Belle's day. Another example with Salvatore Ferragamo who created iconic models for Audrey Hepburn and Marylin Monroe. As Charles Jourdan, he was nicknamed the "King of tap-dance" in the years 1960-1970. Remains in memory Soraya, a model of 1961 to heel needle, Satin Red, gathered at the front. Simply perfect. Today, blissful to purists, tap-dance takes a lighter approach: it takes distance from these origins and lends itself to all the metamorphoses. And it works!

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Tap-dance praise

Valérie, a client trying to the latest models in Christian Louboutin, flowing praise on this mythical shoe: "of course, tap-dance suggests eroticism and remains the emblem of femininity and glamour." But it is also the shoe I porter from morning to evening. "As it is flawless in all circumstances, it puts it on the day where there is nothing to. Tap-dance also falls PIC for camouflage a veneer peeling or a little neglected feet. On the very grasped dress, in the Office, it is importable with sandals at the risk of a bimbo... It is this closed shoe that will reduce it. So tap-dance erected in bestseller of the wardrobe of the foot, a kind of little black dress.