Ballet boot

The ballet boot is a contemporary style of fetish footwear that merges the look of the pointe shoe with a high heel.

The idea is to restrict the wearer's feet almost en pointe, like those of a ballerina, with the aid of long, slender heels[citation needed] (Dori shoes).

The heel height is usually 7 inches (18 centimetres) or more – it is as long as possible, so that the wearer's foot (ankle and toes) are fully pointed/extended in the shoe; any longer would prohibit standing or would require a platform.

Ballerinas first danced en pointe in the Romantic era, with the first recorded performance in 1832 by Marie Taglioni, in La Sylphide.

The soft satin slippers that were used took many decades to develop into the stiff-tipped pointe shoes that we have come to recognize in the 20th and 21st centuries, which allow for a greater range of virtuosic technique.