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French for fringe is "frange", and from there it's almost the same in Romanian. French might have originated the word but maybe not also the trend. If you see pics from landmark festivals like Woodstock 50+ years ago, there's a lot of fringing fashion in there indeed. That, in turn, was borrowed perhaps from "Western" movies with cowboys and "Indians" ("First Nations" as they are called nowadays in North America). Which, perhaps, shows the true origins of the trend. 20+ years ago in a Mohawk (Iroquois tribe) store south of Montreal, I thought if I ever got rich I would dress myself from top to bottom only from stores like that. The whole fashion inside looked pretty much like the upper part of the block heels in the above pics. I don't know how comfortable they are for festivals, and sure I do remember drunk teenagers torturing their feet on high heels, then walking bare-feet among glass shards on High Street in Galway but you know better, Bec. I, for one, am gonna see The Who, 23rd June, 3 Arena in Dublin, most likely still in my sport shoes. Hopefully, a new pair, at last, until then. The current one, still from Penney's in the Eyre Square Shopping Centre, is about to wear out. It was the longest lasting so far in Eire, almost as old as my job: 4 months. Anything else I could afford buying there before and using on nearly 15 kms back and forth daily walks wore out between 1 week and 3 months.
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