They sound like Oxfords http://www.zappos.com/product/7720004/color/263383 http://www.zappos.com/product/7792036/color/289699 http://www.zappos.com/product/7840099/color/718
- Marion ----- Original Message ---- From: Patricia Dunham <chim...@ravensgard.org> To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> Sent: Sat, October 29, 2011 5:01:12 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Steampunk shoes, anyone? fascinating. anybody know what you would call (for googling purposes) the JADE cut shoe, if it was plain black leather, also lace-up top, with a plain heel about the same height? looks SO close to the funny little shoes my farm/ranch grandma used to wear, all the years I ever noticed them! they were her every-day, working in the farmyard shoes (slopping pigs, picking eggs, milking, etc, etc) she was quite short (around 5-foot or slightly less? and Grandad was at least 6-foot!), and had a very shapely ankle and calf, even if her torso was a matronly fire-plug. boy do I remember those shoes. the period I remember them from would have been ca. 1950-75??? she was born ca. 1900. they were probably a catalog item... thanks, just in case! chimene _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
