Babes with Boots,
especially Kinky boots are
boots with extreme characteristics which are
intended to present a dramatic sexy appearance,
such as by a prostitute or dominatrix. Extreme
characteristics might include very high heels,
thigh- or crotch-high length, or unusual colors
or materials. They can be related to
boot fetishism, a kind of
shoe fetishism which thus make them a form
of
fetish clothing. The term is ambiguous,
since what can be considered kinky by some can
be seen as elegant fashion by others.
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Boots of
this type, and specifically the thigh-high
leather boots worn by
Honor Blackman in her role as
Cathy Gale in
The Avengers, are referred to in the
1964 song "Kinky
Boots" by Honor Blackman and
Patrick Macnee. Usually, nowadays the term
is connected to the type of
thigh-high boots used e.g. by
Julia Roberts in the movie
Pretty Woman and by
Madonna in her
Re-Invention Tour in
2004.
The term “kinky boots” was coined in the UK
in the early 1960s when high-heeled boots, which
had previously been worn in the 'underground'
fetish and sadomasochistic world of the
Dominatrix and her clients, broke into
mainstream female fashion. The term 'sexual
kink' (meaning not entirely straight) was
used, often in a jocular sense, to describe an
unusual sexual desire that was not sufficiently
deviant to attract the word perversion. Since
men who were attracted to women in boots (which
symbolised power) were still basically
heterosexual, the term kinky rather than pervert
(which at that time mainly denoted homosexuals)
was applied to them. The term thus became
applied to the boots that were worn by women
because of their previous association with S&M.
The original "Kinky Boots" were calf length
(and later knee length) pull on black leather
boots with 4 inch high stiletto heels and
pointed toes. This was the kind of boot worn by
Honor Blackman (Cathy
Gale) and
Diana Rigg (Emma
Peel) in the original "Avengers"
television series; Honor Blackman and
Patrick McNee (John
Steed) cut a single record called "Kinky
Boots" which hit the UK charts at that time.
"Kinky boot beasts" make a brief appearance in
the Sea of Monsters sequence in the 1968
Beatles' movie
Yellow Submarine.
The boots were soon available in other
colours, white being popular, and all heel
heights. Later, from the mid 60's onwards, the
stiletto went out of fashion and calf and even
thigh boots with lower thick heels or even flat
heels came into fashion. These made it across
the 'pond' to the states and were called "go-go
boots" in the US; however in the UK they
were mostly still called "Kinky Boots" and the
term was still being applied to the high-heeled
platform boots (a very big hit in the UK) of the
1970's.
Boots are such a staple female fashion these
days, that the term is now usually only used for
the original type of dominatrix S&M boot that
gave rise to the term in the first place –-
outrageously sexy very high stiletto boots,
generally of thigh length and in either black or
white or bright shiny colours.
The film
Kinky Boots was released in
2005 and told the story of an ailing company
of high quality traditional male shoemakers that
found a new lease of life making high heeled
fetish footwear for transvestites,
S&M lovers and the
sex industry generally.
Here are some babes in
boots...
