>> Who wore red high heels in pre-revolutionary France? Totter forward absolutist Sun King Louis XIV who, as part of his campaign to pacify the aristocracy, declared that only those in royal favour could climb into them.
Why red is the colour of sex, power, danger and desire https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/07/10/sex-anger-lust-danger-the-semiotics-of-scarlet