Sandals Gallery

London Life - Fashion pages by Jean Shrimpton, 1965

Spread from the short-lived but impossibly cool magazine, London Life, with a column by sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton who regularly wrote about the clothes she liked. This week, for the first issue, shoes including some Gucci two tone pumps (top right) and some Scholl sandals drawn by Barney Wan. Seems Jean has just had to do a bit of shopping and not much writing!
1965

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The Slipper Chapel

In the Middle Ages, pilgrims thronged to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, Norfolk, leaving their sandals in the "Slipper Chapel" and walking barefoot 2 miles to the shrine Date: 14th century

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Man and a woman on a country walk by Miyagawa Choshun

Man and a woman on a country walk by Miyagawa Choshun (1683-1753). Note they are wearing Geta - a form of traditional Japanese footwear that resemble clogs and flip-flops. They are a kind of sandal with an elevated wooden base held onto the foot with a fabric thong to keep the foot well above the ground. Date: late 18th century

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection