1830s womens shoes

One pair black wool ankle height straights with low heel, front laces and vamp decorated with beaded silk bow having fa

Pair of white cotton sateen shoes, narrow soles, square toes, low heels covered with white satin, bows at top of instep of blue pinked tafetta and white machine made l …

Velvet and gold leather button boots, c. 1870.

1830-1865 dance slippers. Nordiska Museet.

By the 1790s women wore slip-on “sandal shoes” with pointed toes. Heels were getting lower and disappeared by 1800. Italian heels were also all the rage. Pattens were still worn to protect shoes outdoors, especially over painted leather or brocaded silk shoes. Lighter pump-style slippers of kid leather, striped silk, and silk satin were worn indoors.

civil war boots

Shoe clips are the best things ever. I'll just come right out and say it. Shoe clips allow you to drastically change the look of a single pair of shoes, just by clipping on a feather, a flower, a bow, a gem. I went looking for various

Dolly Creates • 1860s Christmas Gown • Sneak Peek • American Duchess "Renoir" boots - 1860s-1880s

Black leather boots with scalloed button closure, squared toes with patent leather toe caps, short heels

1880s shoes

V82: How To Decorate Pemberley Regency Shoes Like It's 1789 ~ American Duchess

Woman's Boots, (United States, California, Oakland and San Francisco, active 20th century), United States, California, circa 1910, Costumes, Leather with silk braid and metal laces.

I love shoes. And as a fashion and textile historian, I often find myself nose to glass (or computer screen), drooling over a fabulous pair of antique shoes which I will never own, and which I couldn’t fit even if I did. These are my current favourites: I want them! I love them! I’d give so much to see the dress they were worn with! Alas, I cannot have them. But, I can console myself a little bit, because there are some utterly gorgeous, historically accurate, fairly reasonably priced shoes…

White silk satin upper; small bow at front, binding along top, two long narrow white silk ties; lapper side seams; square toe; leather sole; white kid insole and quart …