Soon the genres of fashion and popular art began to merge and swirl together. The result was platforms that became so ostentatious that they were pieces of art in themselves. Psychedelic colors and patterns were the norm for those that wore the most fashionable platform shoes. These thick soles are the feature that eventually gave them their name, platform shoes, because it was almost as if you were walking around on your own personal platform. Once the platform trend caught on by 1975, it was considered essential that they would have at least two inch thick soles and five inch high heels in order to be considered hip at all.
No matter which era of fashion you identify with the most, all you have to do is wait around long enough and you are almost guaranteed to see elements of that trend emerge in current fashion once again. Bell bottoms are one example, and another is platform heels.
