Shoes Collection (page 9)

Glamorous French Girl with Roses and a hat box
Glamorous French Girl with Mauve hat, choker and shoes, pink Roses and carrying a hat box. Date: circa 1920s

Sisters Marion music hall vocalists
The Sisters Marion harmonising duettists. Described as a juvenile act. Fashionable in the music hall for young women to dress as children. Wearing matching knee-length white dresses and flat shoes

British Caribbean woman and two English women in white dress
Nottingham. British Caribbean woman and two English women in white dresses and black shoes, stand facing the camera. Date: 1960s

Holy Roman Emperor with costume items
Holy Roman Emperor (possibly based on Ferdinand I or Maximilian II) in full regalia at the centre, surrounded by costume items -- four crowns, a pair of gloves, a pair of sandals

African women and girl in native dress
Two African women and a girl in native dress, wearing metal and bone jewellery, and with their skin heavily oiled. Date: circa 1920

African woman in native dress, wearing metal and bone jewellery, and with her skin heavily oiled. Date: circa 1920

Lila Nikolska (1904 - 1955), Russian dancer Date: 1927

A selection of ancient Greek and Roman sandals
A selection of ancient Greek and Roman shoes and sandals. BCE

Costume / Bourgogne C15
Man: very short houppelande or jacket with dagged epaulettes & hanging sleeves, parti- coloured hose, piked shoes & a bandeau. Woman: Hennin & veil headdress, gown & kirtle. Date: 15th century

German Costume Late C14
Man: Gipon (doublet) with side vents, girdle & dagger, hood, piked shoes, hose. Woman: ornamental fillet, loose garment with a low neckline like a surcoat but without vents. Date: circa 1350

Ancient Egyptian objects
Selection of Ancient Egyptian every day items. Date: Ancient Egypt

Studio portrait, little girl in party dress with fur trimming. Date: circa 1920s

Fantastic Transvestite Performer
A fantastic Transvestite Performer in dramatic pose! Date: 1924

Carina Martin wedding dress, 1958
A high fashion wedding dress in lace tinted with the merest pink, short enough in front to show a stocking and slippered foot

Start-rite shoes advertisement, 1961
Advertisement for Start-rite shoes of Norwich, THE choice of classic shoe for children (the one bar style seen at the bottom of this advert is still being sold in various colours today)

Baby sitting in a high chair looking at a cat
A baby sitting in a high chair looking at a cat which is clinging on to the edge of the table. Date: circa 1960s

Anglo Saxon crowns, hats, helmets, and accessories. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity

Full battle armor for knight and horse, mid 16th century.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century

Little girl and dog sitting on a bench
Little girl and terrier dog sitting on a bench in a garden. Date: circa 1918

Old Eccles Cake Shop, Eccles, Salford, Lancashire
Ye Old Eccles Cake Shop, Eccles, Salford (Greater Manchester), Lancashire. The building is called Ye Olde Thatche, claiming to have been built in 1094

Foot x rays showing damage done by wearing high heels
A double page spread from The Sketch reporting on the unnatural stresses put on the feet by the wearing of high heels, which had been banned by the French medical profession being bad for the feet

Lace spat for women 1913
A fleeting fashion of 1913, spats for ladies and in this case, one made from lace. Date: 1913

Fashion inspired by Leon Bakst
Gowns in the newest manner, inspired by the modern designs of Leon Bakst (best known for his theatrical costumes for the Ballets Russe) and realised by Paquin

Girls having Fun 1920S
High jinks for this group of trendy young women at a hostel in Paris, France, where one girl is so happy that she is dancing on the table! Date: late 1920s

Cucumber Girl
A happy country lass sits on a chair on a pathway with fresh cucumbers under her arms. Date: 1930s

Victorian Boots and Shoes

Advert for Dickins & Jones crocodile and lizard womens shoes
Fashion says skin shoes for Autumn. 1927

Princess Elizabeth and her mother the Queen, Zimbabwe, 1947
Princess Elizabeth stands shoeless with her mother the Queen after climbing the Matopos Hill, Bulawayo. The Queen had damaged her shoes during the climb

Workers at Finns Shoe Factory, Penzance
Rows of women working at sewing machines at Finns Shoe Factory - Penzanze, Cornwall

George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry (1838-1930), known as Viscount Deerhurst until 1843, British Conservative politician and horseracing devotee

Arlette poster
Poster for Arlette illustrated by a couple, she in blue beret, frilly pantaloons and ballet shoes, and he in military style clothing with sword accessory

Frock Coat 1890S
A man-about-town in frock coat, pin-striped trousers, high stand-fall shirt collar & white tie, black leather shoes & dark grey spats: acceptable wear with frock coat from 1893

Summer Frock / Doeuillet
Summer tunic dress: V -neck & fold-over collar, a gauged yoke to the gathered over- skirt, scalloped hems, a sash with floating ends & shoes with 3 bars over the instep

Schoolgirls in Gymslips
A line-up of schoolgirls with solemn faces, wearing gym- slips and gym-shoes - by Gymbo, of course !

Ancient Footwear / Diderot
A selection of ancient and not so ancient footwear including various styles of sandal (possibly Greek & Roman), also over-shoes & what looks like a shoe of the C16th (fig.25)

Last and boots on a Christmas and New Year card
Cobbler's last and boots on a comic Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Pair of slippers with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a Dutch girl in traditional dress. (1 of 2) circa 1890s

Comic postcard, Man has fun at the seaside Date: 20th century

Chicks in a blue shoe on an Easter postcard
Chicks in a blue shoe with forgetmenots on an Easter postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Cat in human costume on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

BOY IN FROCK 1850S
A small child (probably a boy) wears a tartan costume of short skirt & short sleeved bodice with shaped basque, lace tucker & narrow ribbon trim & shoes with ankle straps Date: 1850s

Advert for Charles H. Baber ladies footwear 1929
Elegant ladies footwear for widths - all fittings made to the specification of your foot. 1929

Advert for Lillywhites summer sports clothing 1930
Fashions for all summer sports, available at Lillywhites, Piccadilly. 1930

Exhibition image large inflatable ladies legs. Image taken outside MOMA New York, of inflatable ladies legs with high heel shoes hanging from the roof of the building. Date: Early 1980s

Advert for shoes by Lilley & Skinner Ltd, 358-360 Oxford Street, London, 1926 1926

Soho, London - Walkers Court W1, looking towards Rupert Street. 1973

African girl in native dress, wearing metal and bone jewellery, and with her skin heavily oiled. Date: circa 1920

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