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The first time i ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, i knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and i felt sickened. and for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. they've come back four times. i wish we could let them die. they want to die. they were horrible then, they're horrible now.

-Fran Lebowitz

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The First Time I Ever Saw Platform

Fran Lebowitz

The first time i ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, i knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and i felt sickened. and for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. they've come back four times. i wish we could let them die. they want to die. they were horrible then, they're horrible now.

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There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. i picked the '50s because that pretty well spans my life as an appreciator - as somebody who's been involved with this mass cult of horror, from radio and movies and saturday matinees and books. in the '40s there really wasn't that much. people don't want to read about horrible things in horrible times. so, in the '40s, there was val lutin with the cat people and the curse of the cat people and there wasn't much else.

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Besides, i'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and i wanted them for my own. i can't describe the feeling of immediate familiarity that rushed between us. the moment i clapped eyes on them i felt like i already owned them. i could only suppose that we were together in a former life. that they were my shoes when i was a serving maid in medieval britain or when i was a princess in ancient egypt. or perhaps they were the princess and i was the shoes. who's to know? either way i knew that we were meant to be together.

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My dad and mom were more like world war ii-era parents, even though it was the 1960s, because they were both born in the '40s. they were young adults before the '60s even happened, and married, and already having kids. but by the time we were adolescents in the '70s, the whole culture was screaming at parents, "you're a good parent if you're open with your kids about sex." they attempted to be open with us about sex, and it made them want to die, and consequently, it made us want to die.

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