Foot Wear Collection

Cub Scouts taking part in Operation Shoeshine
Two Cub Scouts taking part in Operation Shoeshine, a seven-day campaign during Scout Job Week. Their first customer was an actress, Caroline Munro

Cobblers shop front, St Davids, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
View of a cobblers shop front in St David s, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. The cobbler and his apprentice (possibly his son) stand outside the shop

Jacksons boots and hats advert with cats by Louis Wain 1909 Date: 1909

Puss tries on his new Boots at the Cobblers Shop. Illustration to a fairytale by Charles Perrault, first published 1697

Irish Leprechaun, or Fairy Shoemaker
An Irish Leprechaun, or Fairy Shoemaker, working on a pile of shoes

Advert for Dolcis shoes, shopping with five coupons 1941
With five wartime coupons you could buy one pair of shoes from Dolcis. Casual shoes with contrasting coloures with a crepe sole and side lace. Casual shoes with 3 eyelette tie at front in suede

Rayne shoes advertisement, 1953
Advertisement for Rayne shoes, in particular their range of brocade heels for memorable evenings. Date: 1953

Albania - Peasant shepherd
Albanian peasant shepherd wearing a cloak make out of a long-haired goat and traditional footwear of the curled-up and slightly pointy variety

Raoul Shoe Company 1912
Chic Parisian footwear offered for sale in Regent St featuring a brogue shoe, fancy top boot, seaside shoe, French shoes and court shoe

Japanese clog shop
A man selling wooden footwear known as geta in Japan

Advert for Frontier by Joyce California shoes 1941
Gallant and gay. if yours is a border-line case of not knowing whether to buy on style or economy, we d suggest you look at Cool-ees by Joyce

Advertisement for Selfridges childrens clothes
His First Pair -- advertisement for Selfridges childrens clothes, with a silhouette of four children and a dog. One little boy is wearing his first pair of 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

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)

Aden - Somaili Warriors
Aden - Somalia - Somali Soldiers

Dolcis Advert 1931
Advertisement for Dolcis shoes including: golf shoes, a Derby sports shoes & court shoes in bright exotic colours

Shoemakers (1810). Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum)

Advert for Lotus sensible womens shoes 1948
A seletion of womens flat practical shoes. 1948

Advert for Vani-tred shoes 1943
Will your walk stand a close-up. Balanced walking gives you grace and comfort. You can t fool your feet about shoes. They know whether you are walking as nuture means you to walk - and if you aren t

Advert for Dolcis shoes 1943

Advert for Selberite Arch Preserver shoes 1942
A seletion of Selberite Arch Preserver shoes. 1942

Advert for Carter by Joyce California shoes 1942
This new recruit to Joyce brigade is ready to tilt a lance with anyone who says that hard wear, superlative comfort and characterful appearance can t be combined in a shoe these days

Advert for Dolcis shoes 1937

Advert for Lotus shoes 1947
Fashion fantasion. Strap gold evening shoe. Date: 1947

Boots

Advert for Anklet by Joyce California shoes 1945
Red ankle buckle shoes with wedge by Anklet by Joyce California, fitted by Saxone. 1945

Advert for Dolcis shoes 1939
Stepping sunwards. For gay feet to flash over sunsplahed beaches, new Dolcis sandals, rediant with glowing colour or brilliant contrasts

Allens shoe leather advert
Allens shoe leather 1892 Date: 1892

Cliftonia Boots and Shoes hanging from the Clifton Bridge, 1908 Date: 1908

Advert for Selberite Arch Preserver shoes 1941

Advert for Vani-Tred shoes 1941
Heavenly walking. Advertisement for Vani-Tred shoes, soft, billowy zephyr when you walk, you simply can t come down to earth with a bump; the hidden feature in Vani-Tred constrruction distributes

Advert for Manfield shoes 1941
Brighter foosteps. A seletion of practical colourful womens shoes. Date: 1941

Advert for Dolcis shoes 1941

Advert for Cool-ees by Joyce California shoes 1941
Cool-ees by Joyce in pig skin. These saucy little porkers are simply crakling with pride because someone has at last decided that beauty really is skin deep

Advert for Dolcis shoes 1942
Smart practical economical...... Escentially yours. Dolcis.... Our new spring models, cleverly designed by leading stylists, combine all the qualities you have been looking for

Advert for Dolcis shoes
Advertisement for Dolcis shoe salon, showing some of their latest designs and a picture of a two women gossiping at a restaurant 1931

Edwin C Burts fine shoes. New York
Edwin C. Burts fine shoes. New York. Date c1874

Cub Scout cleaning firemens boots, Surrey
A Cub Scout cleaning the boots of firemen near Croydon, Surrey, during Scout Job Week. 1975

Page from shoe catalogue
Page from a shoe catalogue. 1930

Choosing shoes
An elegant 1920s lady selecting from the wonderful range of selection of shoes available from the London Shoe Company of New Bond Street, London, where everything is endowed with a Parisian touch

Clothing & Boot Stores, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Exterior view of a Clothing and Boot Stores on the High Street in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, with a man and two women posing outside. circa 1910

Poster: You can bet your boots on him! Showing a British soldier checking his own feet, as part of a daily foot inspection. circa 1940s

Peep and closed toe sandlals 1937

Chinese Cobbler
A Chinese cobbler circa 1911

Dutch Canal Official or Lock Keeper, sitting outside his office, smoking a cigar and wearing a fine pair of clogs. Date: 1910s

Advert for Zippety by Joyce California shoes 1948
Tanned, flat heeled, zipped at the front shoe by Zippety, Joyce California, fitted by Saxone. 1948

Advert for Dolcis winter boots
Soft, fully fur-lined cosy boots -warm, snug fitting and distinctively Dolcis. Date: 1948

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