Kinky Boots
The Walk This Way exhibit includes Lola’s red boots from Kinky Boots. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice) An exhibit of shoes tracks American history DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer taffet@dallasvoice.com When shoe company owner and designer Stuart Weitzman’s wife bought him a pair of shoes for his birthday, that was the beginning of what became a most impressive collection.
But what is the connection to the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum? Images of shoes piled outside of Nazi crematoriums come to mind, but this exhibit isn’t gruesome.
Instead, this history of the last 200 years of shoes traces American history. So the current exhibition, Walk This Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes, is the story of women’s rights.
Well, mostly women’s rights. In a display case near the entrance of the exhibit is a pair of red boots from the show Kinky Boots, which tells the story of Charlie Price, who recently inherited a shoe factory from his father.
