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==Origin==
[[File:Walking stick with gilded knob Walking Stick, late 19th century (CH 18418409).jpg|thumb|right|A classic late 19th century walking cane, sometimes also called a dress cane]] Around the 17th or 18th century, a walking stick became an essential part of the European gentleman's [[wardrobe]]. The fashion may have originated with [[Louis XIV]], who favored a walking stick, possibly because he wore high heels.<ref name = WalkingSticks>{{cite web
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Around the 17th or 18th century, a walking stick took over from the shepherd's walking stick as an essential part of the European gentleman's [[wardrobe]], used primarily as a walking stick. A walking stick also became a men's fashion and dress accessory which also helped to display one's social class level. It would be common for an individual to wear a custom hat and walking stick to distinguish their status and wealth. In addition to its value as a decorative accessory, it also continued to be a self defense item to protect the user from street crime. The standard cane was [[rattan]] with a rounded wooden handle.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}▼
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| title = Walking Sticks of the 18th Century
| website = Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 6-8
| publisher = The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Detroit Institute of Arts
| date = October 1943
| url =https://www-jstor-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/stable/pdf/41501004.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A6e8c64a49d177a472320f3a4c0ea2158&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&origin=&initiator=search-results&acceptTC=1
| access-date = September 10, 2023}}</ref> A walking stick also became a fashion and dress accessory. An short history of the walking stick recounts:
<blockquote> [[Voltaire]], who considered that he lived a life free from fashionable nonsense, owned eighty sticks.[[Rousseau]], a poor man and the apostle of the simple life, owned forty. Count Brühl, creator of the famous Brühl Terrace at Dresden, owned three hundred canes, each with a snuff-box to match, one for each of his three hundred suits.<ref name = WalkingSticks/></blockquote>
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Some canes had specially weighted metalwork. Other types of wood, such as [[hickory]], are equally suitable.
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