Fashionable women's sandals gladiators spring-summer 2016

Gladiators have become versatile shoes, as they were in ancient civilizations. Gladiator sandals are the favorite shoes of many modern girls.

More than two millennia have passed since gladiator sandals appeared, and over the past hundred years, when clothes opened women's legs, these shoes never cease to be popular, recalling the history of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, the Colosseum and gladiator fights. Either occupying the first positions, now leaving a little in the shadows, the gladiators of the XXth and XXIst centuries constantly return to the arena of fashion.

In the spring-summer 2016 season, gladiators are again among the most popular shoes. Myths Ancient Greece, ancient heroes and gods - all this, it would seem, is so abstract and incorporeal, comes into contact with us as soon as we put on our favorite gladiators.

By the way, real gladiators fought barefoot in the arena. Only those who in the performances were warriors - soldiers, were in sandals made of tanned leather, to the soles of which belts were attached. If necessary, they could be tied up to the knees.

Putting on gladiators, perhaps you will feel like a warlike Amazon, a forest nymph or ... We will not list who you will see yourself as, let's just see the new collection of gladiators in the spring-summer 2016 season.

Alberta Ferretti, Cedric Charlier

Photo from above - Angelo Marani, Salvatore Ferragamo
Photo below - Alberta Ferrett, Vionnet

Laced to the knee, gladiator sandals with flat or high heels become an alternative to boots and shoes in summer.

Elisabetta Franchi

Temperley London, Julien Macdonald
Angelo Marani, Alice Olivia

Brigitte Bardot, Diana Vreeland and many other women of fashion became the first Amazons of the twentieth century as gladiators.

In the seventies, they were worn with long skirts, wide trousers and tunics.

In the 90s of the last century, gladiators wore under any clothes, in any style, mixing the style of the 60s, 70s ... etc. It was the 90s that the gladiators returned to us in earnest, and apparently forever. Grunge rags or rough hand knitting, patchwork dresses, leather and other fabrics with raw edges - it turns out that everything could be worn with gladiators.

But really, if you think about it, what were the first, of the human race, who wore gladiator sandals, were wearing? Precisely into something similar that just talked about. And what to dress in today in the 21st century, in our 10s?

Photo from above - Alberta Ferretti
Photo below - Angelo Marani

And so, you see that gladiators are versatile shoes, the main thing is to choose correctly which of them will suit your image better - on a flat sole or on high heels, tightly wrapping your legs up to the knees or just above the ankle.

Proceed from the clothes that you like best: folds and draperies that fall beautifully along the figure, draped tunic dresses, or maybe shorts, cropped trousers or skirts ... Come up with a fantastic story of an Amazon, a nymph or girls from the Future, for any of them universal gladiators are suitable.

Elisabetta Franchi
Temperley London, Alice Olivia

Gladiators have gone from the arena of the Colosseum to the podium, they improve, change, but with all this, their story continues. And we just have to invent our own stories, feeling like beautiful Amazons or goddesses ...