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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…

Mid-eighteenth-century woman’s shoes with cream silk
with embroidered diaper pattern, c. 1765–80. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 920.16.2.A-B. Photo: Brian
Boyle. Courtesy of the Veronika Gervers Research
Fellowship.

''Attitudes towards…

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…