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Marriage à la Mode, by William Hogarth (detail). Engraving.London, 1745. Author’s collection

''French commentator wrote that leather shoes were only worn by women “destiné à la fatigue, chez les femmes de la campagne,” not even by…

Early eighteenth-century woman’s shoe with cream silk
brocaded with large rose motif, c. 1730–60. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 921.2.29. Photo: Brian Boyle. Courtesy of the Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship.

''The history of footwear…

"You are clean Fair Lady but our Ways and Means are Dirty." Mezzotint, 1791. London. Printed for Robert Sayer. Guildhall Library, Print Room, 16903. Courtesy of the Corporation of London.

This image represents the difficulty of mobility for the…