Mid-18th Century Woman's Shoe

Mid-18th Century Woman's Shoe

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 walking through public spaces and their changes over time were manifested in the material artifact of fashionable footwear. Pattens, clogs, and other devices designed to keep feet above the dirty and wet ground level soon disappeared, and ease of mobility increased still further.''

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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