1938 | HERMAN B. DELMAN



1938 | Herman B. Delman
Source: LIFE magazine

Herman B. Delman
is America's leading high-style shoe designer. Fifteen years ago he made "crazy sketches" which no manufacturers would copy. That forced him to find shoemakers who would. Now he has his own factory; his shoes retail from $16,75 to $150.

LIFE magazine
February 7, 1938

1939 | Delman | Detail
White buck pumps with a full half-inch banded 
perforated trim in brown calf
Source: The San Bernardino County Sun (July 23, 1939)

1938 | Herman B. Delman
Patent USD112600-S

1938 | Delman peeptoe pumps for Bergdorf Goodman

1939 | Delman
White buck pumps with a full half-inch banded 
perforated trim in brown calf
Source: The San Bernardino County Sun (July 23, 1939)



1938 | Herman B. Delman
Patent USD112601 S

1938 | Delman peeptoe pumps

1940 Miami
DELMAN (or Delman knockoff) on the beach
Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Source: LIFE magazine



FOOTNOTE
The Museum dates both pumps 1937-1939; close enough.


1933 | DELMAN SHOES by Margaret Bourke-White

1934 | ERTÉ [ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF] FOR DELMAN'S SHOES | MET, NY |

1960 | THE HEEL ACCORDING TO DELMAN






 

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