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What's Your Shoe IQ?

Q: Who created and filed the first patent for the wedge heel in 1937? Hint: His shoes famously adorned the glamorous feet of Carmen Miranda, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn.

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

Q: Call yourself a fan of Sex and the City? Then this is a gimme: For her final date with Big before he moved to Napa in season 4, Carrie wore these pink, tiered sandals (topped off here by a Michel Kors frock) by what beloved designer? They

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

A: Christian Louboutin, of course.

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

Q: What did Christian Louboutin use to paint that now instantly recognizable red sole?

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

A: His assistant's red nail polish. She was painting her nails when he struck upon the idea of a hot-red sole and used her polish to color the sole of a prototype. Today, that shock of rouge is so recognizable, it even stands out on the red carpet.

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

Q: People often wrongly attribute Dorothy Gale's ruby red shoes worn in The Wizard of Oz to Salvatore Ferragamo. They were actually created by which famed MGM costumer? Bonus question: In the original L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wiza

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

A: The shoes from the movie (shown here) were designed by Gilbert Adrian, more commonly known simply as Adrian. The original color of the shoes in the book was silver.

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

Q: For his spring 2008 runway show, Marc Jacobs sent accessories editors (and the fashion world in general) into a tizzy by doing what to his pumps?

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

A: In a creative move worthy of the great surrealists, he inverted the heels.

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

Q: What do Julianne Moore and Ashley Olsen have in common in these pictures?

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

A: They're both wearing Yves Saint Laurent's wildly popular and timeless Tribute sandal.

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

Q: Which political figure known as the "Steel Butterfly" accumulated more than 2,700 pairs of shoes?

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

A: Imelda Marcos.

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

Q: Girls and women alike love wearing Mary Jane-style shoes (like the vampy Yves Saint Laurent platform shoes shown here). But who was the original Mary Jane?

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

A: Comic strip character Buster Brown's little sister, Mary Jane. She first appeared in comic strips in 1902, and the pair frequently wore shoes with a thin ankle strap.

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

Q: What does the "UGG" stand for in UGG boots?

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

A: Australian fashion lore has it that it really does stand for "ugly." The sheepskin boots have been used by outdoorsy Aussies and swimmers for decades and decades. Cozy but homely, they were totally utilitarian from the get-go, and were of

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

Q: Paraplegic Aimee Mullins, an NCAA Division 1 track star from Georgetown and sometimes model, walked the runway of which fashion bad boy in a pair of hand-carved, solid ash wood prosthetic legs made to look like boots?

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What's Your Shoe IQ?

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