From the models, to the actresses , to the college students and their mothers, They all love to flaunt high heels. Can you guess who amongst these first brought this concept into play?
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Mona Lisa, the woman in the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci is believed to have started the trend.
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Catherine de Medici, the fiancee of Duke of Orleans.
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Kitturu Rani Chennamma, the queen of the princely state of Kittur in Karnataka. is believed to be fond of the heels and later passed the trend to the west.
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The famous beauty Shakuntala started wearing them in her teens.
Catherine de Medici wore heels for her 1533 wedding to the Duke of Orleans, making them fashionable in France. While other historical figures may have worn elevated footwear, Catherine is credited with introducing high heels as a fashion trend in Europe.
The correct answer is Catherine de Medici, the Italian noblewoman who became engaged to the Duke of Orleans (later King Henry II of France) in the 16th century. She is widely credited with popularizing high heels in Europe — legend holds she wore them to appear taller for her wedding, and the fashion then spread through the French and European aristocracy before eventually reaching wider culture. The other options are folklore-style distractors with no real historical basis: Mona Lisa is a painted subject, not a historical trendsetter of footwear; Kitturu Rani Chennamma was a 19th-century Indian queen known for her resistance to British rule, not for heels; and Shakuntala is a mythological/literary character from Indian epics, not a historical figure tied to fashion history. Catherine de Medici is the standard trivia answer for the 'origin of high heels' question.