"You know the ones with the high heels and the red bottoms?" Song lyrics: "These expensive. / These is red bottoms. / These is bloody shoes." Narrator: Louboutin even had the red bottoms trademarked.

King Louis XIV of France, also known as The Sun King, had a real hankering for high heels. A fervent 18th-century fashionista, he favoured elaborately embroidered leather shoes with a bright red heel.