Bold Fashion Choices--This Is How Stilt-Man Got Hist Start!

In Riverdale, when the Fashion Wars collide with the Gender Wars:

I have no doubt that the escalation of "Project: High Heels" was long and brutal, until the entire economy of the city was devoted to producing taller and taller shoes, as Archie and Veronica's obsession with looming over the other destroyed the town...

From Archie Giant Series Magazine #222 (1974)