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| 1950 | Delman Gold sandal | Detail Source: LIFE magazine |
… gold sandals whose soles are molded of one piece of leather that hugs the instep and toes without covering them. (Delman, $38.95)
Source: LIFE | December 11, 1950
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| December 11, 1950 From: Gold-Plated Fashions LIFE magazine |
24-CARAT cocktail costume (Toni Owen; top $30, skirt $45) is worn with jeweled coil necklace, bracelet (Trifari; $35 and $25)
Source: LIFE | December 11, 1950
No actual shoe can be found, all the same, a gold sandal from the MET collection looks strikingly similar and fits the following description down to a T:
A spectacular gold kid shoe which Mr. Delman calls "Twenty-First Century" is made of gold kid in one piece of leather. It's a flat that wraps the foot and is held on with velvet. It weights three ounces and has no stitching.
Source: Hartford Courant (Hartford, Connecticut)July 11, 1950
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| 1 Leather, silk | Gift of Herman Delman Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art |
1933 | DELMAN SHOES by Margaret Bourke-White
1934 | ERTÉ [ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF] FOR DELMAN'S SHOES | MET, NY
1960 | THE HEEL ACCORDING TO DELMAN
FOOTNOTE
The "one piece of leather sandal" seems a novel idea but it was featured in the Summer 1948 in the Italian magazine URIC although the maker remained unknown (All the details here). And lest we forget Armenian master Sarkis Der Balian: the Musée de la Chaussure (Romans sur Isère) dates his "single piece of leather sandal" 1950 - 1960 (much like MET's 1940 - 1949) - but they've been wrong before. Both museums.
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| 1948 | Sandals with overturned sole URIC magazine #77, Summer 1948 |
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| 1950/1960 | Sarkis Der Balian © Romans; Musée international de la Chaussure © Direction des Musées de France, 2007 - Photograph: © Christophe Villard |
