Woman's Shoe in Early 18th Century

Woman's Shoe in Early 18th Century

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 (and especially women’s footwear) is dominated by such devices to keep feet above the ground level. This differentiation is important because it reveals contrasting patterns of consumption
and production related to gender.''

Anonymous

"The Art and Science of Walking: Gender, Space,and the Fashionable Body in the Long Eighteenth Century" by Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello. Fashion Theory, Volume 9, Issue 2, pp. 175–204.

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