Chopine Chopine A chopine is a type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Chopines were originally used as a patten, clog, or overshoe to protect the shoes and dress from mud and street soil. Chopines were popularly worn in Venice by both courtesans and patrician women from ca. 1400–1700. Besides their practical uses, the height of the chopine became a symbolic reference to the cultural and social standing of the wearer; the higher the chopine, the higher the status of the wearer. High chopines allowed a woman to tower over others. During the
The Enchanted Pig him in it. They set out to his father's kingdom, and then return to her father's kingdom. An opera partly based on the tale, "The Enchanted Pig", by the composer Jonathan Dove, was premiered in 2006. The Enchanted Pig The Enchanted Pig ("Porcul cel fermecat") is a Romanian fairy tale, collected in "Rumanische Märchen" and also by Petre Ispirescu in "Legende sau basmele românilor". Andrew Lang included it in "The Red Fairy Book". It is Aarne-Thompson type 425A, the search for the lost husband. Others of this type include The Black Bull of Norroway, The Brown Bear of Norway, The