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TIL that in Europe in the 1700s, high heeled shoes were seen as a sign of upper-class status, and their length was regulated by authorities - ½ inch for commoners, 1 inch for the bourgeois, 1 and ½ inches for knights, 2 inches for nobles, and 2 and ½ inches for princes

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