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Strawberry high heel platform

Title: Strawberry high heel platform
Description: These platform sandals reflect the playful and exaggerated aesthetics of 1970s fashion. Featuring a dramatic high platform heel, ankle strap, and open toe design, the shoes combine bright green satin with hand-painted strawberry motifs and a large decorative fabric rose. The bold colors, oversized proportions, and whimsical decoration embody the decade’s embrace of eclecticism, theatricality, and self-expression. Platform shoes became a defining element of 1970s style, associated with disco culture, glam fashion, and the era’s experimentation with bold forms and decorative excess.; April 17, 1971
Date: 1971-1974
Fashion Item: platform shoes
Fashion style: Hippie
designer: Joseph Bascetta and Carole Reidford
designed for: Pelican Footwear NYC (American, 1971 - 1974)
Materials: Green and red synthetic satin, white polyurethane, green leather, paint, and metal; satin; leather
Location: The Museum at FIT; Fashion Institute of Technology
Identifier: 2011.20.1
Donor: Joseph and Carole Bascetta