tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513276515305392562024-03-06T05:33:45.881+01:00TheHistorialistTheHistorialisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07002879907116870993noreply@blogger.comBlogger1445125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-551327651530539256.post-76294672440226733762022-01-08T21:31:00.004+01:002023-04-24T12:28:42.697+02:00NO MORE WHITE BUCKS | ELVIS PRESLEY FOR BLUE TANA LAWN SHOES<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAYeTWyHgUWqcFJ8Fx3nBWEdBeWTPA2_QtD1ec0kINj7pMYIdIVQg9psBchQpP036a4TM_BGaMxo5HcsmerQYtLfOnlwbH1PDdQ75wbClKKJhFvufN4_8oPa4CGfSWIVvSjs98P5m2_7JB_s9NGmSvuis5R-osmrjt8-PPxx8JHPMCDzTjR9d777T4/s600/01_Elvis_detail_Blue_Tana_Lawn.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAYeTWyHgUWqcFJ8Fx3nBWEdBeWTPA2_QtD1ec0kINj7pMYIdIVQg9psBchQpP036a4TM_BGaMxo5HcsmerQYtLfOnlwbH1PDdQ75wbClKKJhFvufN4_8oPa4CGfSWIVvSjs98P5m2_7JB_s9NGmSvuis5R-osmrjt8-PPxx8JHPMCDzTjR9d777T4/s16000/01_Elvis_detail_Blue_Tana_Lawn.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><u>1988 | The Model ABUNDANCE | detail</u></span></div><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Blue Tana Lawn Shoes</div></span><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: FameBureau</div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><u style="text-align: justify;">ELVIS PRESLEY, FOR BLUE TANA LAWN SHOES (ADVERTISEMENT IN HARPERS & QUEEN, LONDON, JUNE)</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>“ABUNDANCE” it says, “by ELVIS PRESLEY.” “Not a barn dance,” it says. He’s wearing blue and red “19th century floral design” shoes. They look great.</i></div></i><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Greil Marcus</b></div></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: justify;">From: Real Life Rock column (Village Voice, September 1988)</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLKWqzmo54C23y5Y3e3yeY8SJ9PbwQNAaQWKLqIStfYhpNVn5IwqVWjFQO47qTLcmsINPB_Gy68Ic8N_QqJgk4Cxe8D-CsyQhJm9cCuyz4NIC9DW5sRUdxYxFVoZWwGlxc8_siz39_y8fkRcDqAL4fWzwbS_JYub1LFrY_W6g5lw_EVjKM1-z5YnnG/s848/02_Elvis_Liberty.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLKWqzmo54C23y5Y3e3yeY8SJ9PbwQNAaQWKLqIStfYhpNVn5IwqVWjFQO47qTLcmsINPB_Gy68Ic8N_QqJgk4Cxe8D-CsyQhJm9cCuyz4NIC9DW5sRUdxYxFVoZWwGlxc8_siz39_y8fkRcDqAL4fWzwbS_JYub1LFrY_W6g5lw_EVjKM1-z5YnnG/s16000/02_Elvis_Liberty.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><u>1988 | Elvis<br /></u>Liberty ad by art studio Shoot That Tiger<br />Source: <a href="https://famebureau.co.uk/shop/a-rare-liberty-store-tana-lawn-poster-featuring-elvis-presley/">FameBureau</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>FOOTNOTE</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Greil Marcus quote refers to a different ad. Here the caption plays with the better known <a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2017/06/johnny-angelos-blue-suede-shoes-feat.html" target="_blank">"blue suede shoes"</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, Elvis is on stage at the Olympia Theater, Miami - August 1956.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The original photograph was taken by Charles Trainor and Elvis is wearing <a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2011/06/oxford-white-bucks-american-classic.html" target="_blank">white buck shoes</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">MKTG SUX.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_JF4JuRsmN9pnru-klBKHlZM8BCs8VovC-rM5X_49_UK-lIMV0wKK6M3Fm355QwMzW0Eeqk-KwPanfNS8mvlmjcRTkDljDGjxXRkvOYyBHP2lzwiw-ZdvJSVwIAxkUGmVYStCnLm39leQQEOgIfaNXS89_aUOcQJfnNCShYM5USqjXm5ClJuQF8sC/s783/03_Elvis_1956_by_Charles_Trainor.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_JF4JuRsmN9pnru-klBKHlZM8BCs8VovC-rM5X_49_UK-lIMV0wKK6M3Fm355QwMzW0Eeqk-KwPanfNS8mvlmjcRTkDljDGjxXRkvOYyBHP2lzwiw-ZdvJSVwIAxkUGmVYStCnLm39leQQEOgIfaNXS89_aUOcQJfnNCShYM5USqjXm5ClJuQF8sC/s16000/03_Elvis_1956_by_Charles_Trainor.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><u>1956 | Elvis | Olympia Theater, Miami | August<br /></u>Photograph: Charles Trainor (The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images)<br />Source: <a href="https://www.newsmuseum.pt/en/fotojornalismo/elvis-stage">News Museum</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div>Happy b-day Elvis, wherever you are.</div>TheHistorialisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07002879907116870993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-551327651530539256.post-30303632045364890452021-06-14T09:00:00.002+02:002021-06-14T11:13:37.831+02:001949 | LOLA ÁLVAREZ BRAVO | EL SUEÑO DE LOS POBRES 2<i>During her long career, Lola Álvarez Bravo worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, professional portraitist, political artist, teacher, and gallery curator. </i><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Despite her professional success, it is her personal photography that marks her most significant contribution to the history of the medium. While working professionally she culled a small, core group of photographs she would refer to as her personal work, “mis fotos, mi arte.”</i><div><br /><b>CCP</b><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/551327651530539256/3030363204536489045#"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Center for Creative Photography</span></a><div><br /></div><div><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBEmCsNyw_Js54FTb-g1X1VURrDAIToevT69ZhYEdbU1RX77k45ww0QmYCL4gUCspMmKBn3JC0j-BzSyVczd6Iiub3JbArIBEsBYY28bZID2c7WivVk_SN5EzFR2fJHu3jQyFgLVLNSv4/s600/Lola_ALvarez_Bravo_El_suen%25CC%2583o_de_los_pobres.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBEmCsNyw_Js54FTb-g1X1VURrDAIToevT69ZhYEdbU1RX77k45ww0QmYCL4gUCspMmKBn3JC0j-BzSyVczd6Iiub3JbArIBEsBYY28bZID2c7WivVk_SN5EzFR2fJHu3jQyFgLVLNSv4/s16000/Lola_ALvarez_Bravo_El_suen%25CC%2583o_de_los_pobres.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">1949 | Lola Álvarez Bravo<br />El Sueño De Los Pobres 2<br />Source: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/551327651530539256/3030363204536489045#">CCP</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Lola Álvarez Bravo<br /><a href="http://ccp-emuseum.catnet.arizona.edu/view/people/asitem/items@:60" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photogallery At CCP</span></a><br /><br /><u>SHOES & ART<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/551327651530539256/3030363204536489045#">1832 - 2013</a></u></div></div></div>TheHistorialisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07002879907116870993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-551327651530539256.post-1433696486290904052021-04-26T18:23:00.002+02:002021-06-14T11:17:30.516+02:00BACK ON THE SADDLE SHOES | PART 3 | A.K.A. TBAMFW # 25<p style="text-align: center;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc6gX7PRiXp7CJ26hsttZYzvXn12z7m7SuhHvld-T1khujBySUwzQmuidhoFd-rlYq9I4fFr6b77qsFrvHFx_KupBHs0EdOnbNo30Fn9-HNvbir96xGk_Q5jpIvxq94Vi_cr0GLy5NHcg/s607/00_1978_CREEM_Subscribers_ph_lynn_Goldsmith.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc6gX7PRiXp7CJ26hsttZYzvXn12z7m7SuhHvld-T1khujBySUwzQmuidhoFd-rlYq9I4fFr6b77qsFrvHFx_KupBHs0EdOnbNo30Fn9-HNvbir96xGk_Q5jpIvxq94Vi_cr0GLy5NHcg/s16000/00_1978_CREEM_Subscribers_ph_lynn_Goldsmith.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">1978 | Original Saturday Night Live cast member Gilda Radner<br />Ad for CREEM magazine subscribers<br />Photograph: Lynn Goldsmith<br />Source: CREEM magazine | May 1978<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXUOmQAcXrxzniMAFBAnJKQOZn9MwKONvrqNiOROKt_-b3wb9Gnu1Azb9t4ndW8Vn8IpIoo508YdHeq5uAtd2bGfUxsczgrUFfd-OibEhwmkcsm_Ej0WIQwPsfVWSGrxCS3svszSANo8I/s600/01_Routineers_2004_Routineers_%2528Sammich%253ADischord%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXUOmQAcXrxzniMAFBAnJKQOZn9MwKONvrqNiOROKt_-b3wb9Gnu1Azb9t4ndW8Vn8IpIoo508YdHeq5uAtd2bGfUxsczgrUFfd-OibEhwmkcsm_Ej0WIQwPsfVWSGrxCS3svszSANo8I/s16000/01_Routineers_2004_Routineers_%2528Sammich%253ADischord%2529.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Routineers - Self Titled<br />(Sammich/Dischord, 2004)<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBlJ2sjI1g0nvOCQEKnIEWXW4T4L-9XCGCVH-rwSFa0ZiKQdzueojtcxioBee_yJSrOJ6bGrwj5PMZmqD_LwJupbJuXkm3Jjl50dM6h3ZwAUJWf0pe8ZdrFSZBUcUmS51-wB2meUGXKeI/s600/02_The_Modernettes_2007_Get_Modern_Or_Get_F*cked_%2528Lady_Kinky_Karrot%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBlJ2sjI1g0nvOCQEKnIEWXW4T4L-9XCGCVH-rwSFa0ZiKQdzueojtcxioBee_yJSrOJ6bGrwj5PMZmqD_LwJupbJuXkm3Jjl50dM6h3ZwAUJWf0pe8ZdrFSZBUcUmS51-wB2meUGXKeI/s16000/02_The_Modernettes_2007_Get_Modern_Or_Get_F*cked_%2528Lady_Kinky_Karrot%2529.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">The Modernettes - Get Modern Or Get F*cked<br />(Lady Kinky Karrot, 2007)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBPEr-qg0IDCPl2MQP8i8rKOo7N3rxWFWq4Ig2w76UgO4DJ-tunSPx2QUlFInjUd7MC3Z0snBzJVqNezDl6LFxgapW1c15Nj9GapQctooIA8W_jlRb06yFk5pRc22MbNMmX7R1HM-5XwQ/s600/03_1983_Donald_Roller+Wilson_Patricia.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBPEr-qg0IDCPl2MQP8i8rKOo7N3rxWFWq4Ig2w76UgO4DJ-tunSPx2QUlFInjUd7MC3Z0snBzJVqNezDl6LFxgapW1c15Nj9GapQctooIA8W_jlRb06yFk5pRc22MbNMmX7R1HM-5XwQ/s16000/03_1983_Donald_Roller+Wilson_Patricia.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">1983 | Donald Roller Wilson<br />Patricia (the dog) | detail</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUd23hBXIzmQdcmNx5n8w_KUPx9o-niUpmwLYhva9oRNZjeYlCkKw8SOe3s1qTrEguJLfA_PNIt5fDsvZqoB4CR3lhHxLcjFKYDoEpTblcPDrra7ATTNpIMYBJZaXr0ALmtmnQhcnoe3Y/s600/04_Boulez_Conducts_Zappa.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUd23hBXIzmQdcmNx5n8w_KUPx9o-niUpmwLYhva9oRNZjeYlCkKw8SOe3s1qTrEguJLfA_PNIt5fDsvZqoB4CR3lhHxLcjFKYDoEpTblcPDrra7ATTNpIMYBJZaXr0ALmtmnQhcnoe3Y/s16000/04_Boulez_Conducts_Zappa.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Boulez Conducts Zappa - The Perfect Stranger<br />(Zappa Records, 1984)<br />Painting called Patricia by Donald Roller Wilson<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljK2kQA-9aWX4vFa4vVW3mV6J4fDzRC0kZFWLFQN0WK-WGxIxLUAw2ubGZQhR2pGUS0faZiiTao8KhzrM_Nweknhw4Uak8zqSY2Mt8fw-t9IBQeMAqvo9qwvRM_qN8Cr0m7lUC0tGfKY/s600/05_The+A%2527s_1979_S%253AT.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljK2kQA-9aWX4vFa4vVW3mV6J4fDzRC0kZFWLFQN0WK-WGxIxLUAw2ubGZQhR2pGUS0faZiiTao8KhzrM_Nweknhw4Uak8zqSY2Mt8fw-t9IBQeMAqvo9qwvRM_qN8Cr0m7lUC0tGfKY/s16000/05_The+A%2527s_1979_S%253AT.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">The A's - Self Titled<br />(Arista, 1979)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQh9PbOmgpqbqCoNFfp4r30AOQugd3PJJ2xUq2dIqY-GG_WvyxhuCVvgB-KF3MvW6_bAwkLky-2sYbjzW-D_B9UpmYUB9ymUxY78KSl4vPLRc3tJKIp5YcgcHhxAD_u286Yz215AJJwk/s600/06_The+A%2527s_Inner_sleeve.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQh9PbOmgpqbqCoNFfp4r30AOQugd3PJJ2xUq2dIqY-GG_WvyxhuCVvgB-KF3MvW6_bAwkLky-2sYbjzW-D_B9UpmYUB9ymUxY78KSl4vPLRc3tJKIp5YcgcHhxAD_u286Yz215AJJwk/s16000/06_The+A%2527s_Inner_sleeve.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">The A's - Self Titled | Inner Sleeve<br />(Arista, 1979)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>FOOTNOTE</u></b></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Routineers was the last known band led by former Desiderata/Sammich Records owner Amanda MacKaye. Recommended if you like Ignition, Warmers and Rites Of Spring. "Get Modern" is a compilation of the great Modernettes from Vancouver: punk/power pop of the highest order. Even Philly's The A's were power pop but with an emphasis on pop. Zappa is Zappa even conducted by Pierre Boulez but you would have failed the blindfold test. I failed it too.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><br /><a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2021/04/back-on-saddle-shoes-part-1.html" target="_blank">BACK ON THE SADDLE SHOES | PART 1</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2021/04/back-on-saddle-shoes-part-2.html" target="_blank">BACK ON THE SADDLE SHOES | PART 2</a><br /><br />THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">SHOES & MUSIC</a><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgEXatoaNv20qSi0JHH5lvS3IBtYtjhKeK17LPxJMyPbztIyVadUUj0MGXdfoLSYqeTl9yM6vAf7CwT1EoddcofmSSUkwK4Ocg5Kx5tXvBv-ytx8JoPnP_GNEkSKHKlPHUNPCM9pR3cBc/s600/07_1973_Jagger_Robert_Cohen_Vienna__.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgEXatoaNv20qSi0JHH5lvS3IBtYtjhKeK17LPxJMyPbztIyVadUUj0MGXdfoLSYqeTl9yM6vAf7CwT1EoddcofmSSUkwK4Ocg5Kx5tXvBv-ytx8JoPnP_GNEkSKHKlPHUNPCM9pR3cBc/s16000/07_1973_Jagger_Robert_Cohen_Vienna__.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">1973 | Mick Jagger In Vienna<br />Photographs: Robert Cohen<br />Source: Julien's Auction</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Both pictures used for the bootleg "Goats Head Soup Outtakes Collection" (The Godfatherecords, 2012)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>TheHistorialisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07002879907116870993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-551327651530539256.post-83796122453519505732021-04-17T19:54:00.002+02:002021-04-26T18:23:36.605+02:00BACK ON THE SADDLE SHOES | PART 2<i>Well, their white bucks<br /><br />And saddle shoes<br /><br />That's the style<br /><br />That's makin' the news<br /><br />Ivy league at all at best<br /><br />In the north and the south<br /><br />And the east and the west<br /><br />Getting ready to go steady<br /><br />Are white bucks and saddle shoes<br /><br />Getting ready to go steady<br /><br />Are Joe's white bucks<br /><br />And Mary's saddle shoes </i><br /><br /><u><b>1958 | "White Bucks and Saddle Shoes" (excerpt)<br /></b>Written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman </u><br /><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhviD5aRcmnQRsezHKB_EVSz7dCBEO16W3hdmAfm9PFnEkQa-lKoQLWyr2M6NV-nyAwtaT8UaHM2pWmsEY2dDPmWXPatRT25UlQBveUPM4lXvQcUcp9BuXO2LbmEgE4LW66OKtd6bmPcL0/s600/01_LIFE+17+Nov+1947_PH_Ed+Clark.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhviD5aRcmnQRsezHKB_EVSz7dCBEO16W3hdmAfm9PFnEkQa-lKoQLWyr2M6NV-nyAwtaT8UaHM2pWmsEY2dDPmWXPatRT25UlQBveUPM4lXvQcUcp9BuXO2LbmEgE4LW66OKtd6bmPcL0/s16000/01_LIFE+17+Nov+1947_PH_Ed+Clark.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><br />1947 | High-School Fads<br />Photograph: Ed Clark<br />Source: LIFE | November 17, 1947<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><b><u><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>SADDLE SHOES MAKE COMEBACK</u></b></div></u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Recently at Griffith Institute, a new style has been instigated. This style is the wearing of saddle shoes. Saddle shoes, for those who don't remember them, are black and white oxford-type shoes that tie like sneakers, and for many of us, were a low point in social fashion. They were, in mother's own words, "sensible, healthy shoes." </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>They weren't, however, in most children's words, "stylish." (At that time, one needed patient leather shoes to be considered fashionable.) Now the tables are reversed, and saddle shoes are becoming the rage. What should one do about this ironic twist of fate? Why, go out and buy a pair of saddle shoes, and bring them home and ask your mother: “aren’t they neat?”</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Linda Burke</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Buffalo courier Express | January 28, 1967</div><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjke9WSzw8p65n3TQaM14hZZIoEjxE6IJjWuiSp4n2UOjuv-36tSIbd1fIcqIUliHtxdgmLrI6-XNID66eqoIbi1wEPCeryjXWoszr83ePDSWrB-87PF2VuO2aSFj02fj_lkpbkm9fZxy8/s600/02_LIFE_June_21_1948.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjke9WSzw8p65n3TQaM14hZZIoEjxE6IJjWuiSp4n2UOjuv-36tSIbd1fIcqIUliHtxdgmLrI6-XNID66eqoIbi1wEPCeryjXWoszr83ePDSWrB-87PF2VuO2aSFj02fj_lkpbkm9fZxy8/s16000/02_LIFE_June_21_1948.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: start;">1948 | Saddle Shoes & Roller Skates at Palo Alto, CA<br />Source: LIFE Magazine | June 21, 1948</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>She proudly showed me some black and white saddle shoes. Oh, my. They were hideous, in my opinion I felt hot tears stinging my eyes, and I stood there not knowing what to say. I didn't want to hurt her feelings, but neither did I want t wear those shoes.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>... Ma said she was leaving the shoes on top of my dresser. She was sure they would grow on me. I felt sick to my stomach each time I looked at those shoes, knowing I was going to have to wear them.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Lesson learned: is this where I learned that what I said or thought didn't matter? Or am I just super sensitive?</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yvonne Grady</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From: My Hometown Was the Backseat of a Car (Balboa Press, 2017)</div><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiday3N4JlDaCfvXOXK8IqHxdtSeegP59KghgYFu14J5g6aWaPKhBqPcs_AgEfWSSujrUIRVap0fxlv7ZGF96r2bMDI2_stru44e29PhSvxGv2XiChXH-B6sPqbCMiEwNZKe3IgoTZnUp4/s600/03_Teen_Fashions_Saddle_Shoes.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiday3N4JlDaCfvXOXK8IqHxdtSeegP59KghgYFu14J5g6aWaPKhBqPcs_AgEfWSSujrUIRVap0fxlv7ZGF96r2bMDI2_stru44e29PhSvxGv2XiChXH-B6sPqbCMiEwNZKe3IgoTZnUp4/s16000/03_Teen_Fashions_Saddle_Shoes.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">1999 | Celebrate The Century - 1950s<br />Set of fifteen stamps issued May 26, 1999<br />Source: stampcommunity.org</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The big girls, seventh and eighth graders, would bring their favourite records to school, and the Sisters of St. Agnes - </i>nuns<i> - supplied a record player! Yes, they did - and I remind you that this was St. Mary's Catholic Grade School.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Believe it or not, almost all the girls (never the boys) danced to rock and roll every lunch hour. In fourth grade, I had "rock-and-roll saddle shoes." They were white with a black saddle-shoe band that came to a point on either side of the laces, and the sole were soft and smooth - perfect for dancing.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From: <b>Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins. Tales and Tips From Growing Up In The ’50s and ’60s.</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2010)</span></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrCND4uMUhhNW_ML3eFS9eyTIePXhOM7htkTNaGPLgGJU-MHIHwjYRfrjvH3EzNnlMLmAkgfs2fvYAuFqhzZPhK8CMmPKDSutXhqdwxMN2tTVq94jRdAAGDjfiQO8ut91NsBum90kRr6o/s607/Eve_Arnold_The+Fifties+2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrCND4uMUhhNW_ML3eFS9eyTIePXhOM7htkTNaGPLgGJU-MHIHwjYRfrjvH3EzNnlMLmAkgfs2fvYAuFqhzZPhK8CMmPKDSutXhqdwxMN2tTVq94jRdAAGDjfiQO8ut91NsBum90kRr6o/s16000/Eve_Arnold_The+Fifties+2.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Eve Arnold | The Fifties. Photographs Of America<br />(Pantheon Books, 1985)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /><br /><b><u>FOOTNOTE</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The picture "High-School Fads" (first one on top) is also available at Getty Images but it is placed out of context. They don't explain that it was a fad among the teenagers which had fun swapping one shoe. </div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This happens quite often with historical photographs and it's a pity because Getty Images manages the complete LIFE Picture Collection, hence they should know. In other words, you pay full price for half the picture.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><u><a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2021/04/back-on-saddle-shoes-part-2.html" target="_blank">BACK ON THE SADDLE SHOES | PART 1</a></u></div><div><br /></div><div><u><a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2021/04/back-on-saddle-shoes-part-3-aka-tbamfw.html" target="_blank">BACK ON THE SADDLE SHOES | PART 3</a></u></div><div><u><br /></u></div><div><u><br /></u></div><div><u><br /></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><br /></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ct9mVWViAhqQEPeOoqK0CFJTj5rR9zugminYL6rwNMSwSTx4F___Nq25xLuIrSMwvztPOWbMufhUjaiF89S6Kf5ZAalpgnpn1ja6F49B3Mt4ayOnwIwEjKZgktWRwKU57n9AJLxQ3nI/s600/05_Various_Dancing_Shoes_Volume_One_%2528Auto+Change+Records%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ct9mVWViAhqQEPeOoqK0CFJTj5rR9zugminYL6rwNMSwSTx4F___Nq25xLuIrSMwvztPOWbMufhUjaiF89S6Kf5ZAalpgnpn1ja6F49B3Mt4ayOnwIwEjKZgktWRwKU57n9AJLxQ3nI/s16000/05_Various_Dancing_Shoes_Volume_One_%2528Auto+Change+Records%2529.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">Various Artists</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">Dancing Shoes Volume One</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">Auto Change Records</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>TheHistorialisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07002879907116870993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-551327651530539256.post-57831141790967827722021-04-09T10:40:00.004+02:002023-04-23T20:15:04.994+02:00BACK ON THE SADDLE SHOES | PART 1<div style="text-align: justify;"><i>White bucks and saddle shoes</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>That's what the kids all choose</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Jeans and slacks of course</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Oh, yes, they sure look boss</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Getting ready to go steady</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Are white bucks and saddle shoes</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>1958 | "White Bucks And Saddle Shoes" (excerpt)</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagwCbhrKOb6mwpL0KZRRSvNhu9IiCzN3jIhNGn6AXGtEFyigB7B7F1WMvJafvs20mHhPqV2dEGpSN5HkkCGctbup16P5YGyPLVTfGaUjuShVa_Ja-iLVSGJXr-IYg1DdcN84DzE48auU/s621/01_1943_Esther_Bubley.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagwCbhrKOb6mwpL0KZRRSvNhu9IiCzN3jIhNGn6AXGtEFyigB7B7F1WMvJafvs20mHhPqV2dEGpSN5HkkCGctbup16P5YGyPLVTfGaUjuShVa_Ja-iLVSGJXr-IYg1DdcN84DzE48auU/s16000/01_1943_Esther_Bubley.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">1943 | Washington, D.C. Saddle shoes are still popular at Woodrow Wilson High School</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photograph: Esther Bubley</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/owi2001036921/pp/">Library Of Congress</a></span><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was a slow build-up since the beginning of the last century, but the first big break of the saddle shoes came with the well known LIFE magazine cover (June 7, 1937); after that, they went in and out of fashion pretty regularly. </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbuPPdzt_5a2rrkQIV01ijxjXTBbwG9zKN-RjTykWbr-zwFOydJaOHHea2zoyin2QJ-LuOwTXrCVICEfGF1SMr5YyVYwQ4Mj_kv3cXb5BQyK0lHIQIVipypNE1FNZmij0j_IjifG-DtGk/s808/05_LIFE_1937_June_7.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbuPPdzt_5a2rrkQIV01ijxjXTBbwG9zKN-RjTykWbr-zwFOydJaOHHea2zoyin2QJ-LuOwTXrCVICEfGF1SMr5YyVYwQ4Mj_kv3cXb5BQyK0lHIQIVipypNE1FNZmij0j_IjifG-DtGk/s16000/05_LIFE_1937_June_7.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">The Class Of 1937 At Sarah Lawrence College | Bronxville, N.Y.<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photograph: Alfred Eisenstaedt</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">LIFE magazine | June 7, 1937</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /></div><div><br /><b><u>THE COLLEGE GIRL HAS A STYLE ALL HER OWN</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>NEW YORK - On the campus, college girls from coast to coast like flared or pleated skirts, saddle shoes and short wool socks and sweaters. Sweaters and still more sweaters. For afternoon, dirndls in velvet and velveteen, and Tyrolean jumper frocks are their pets.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Marian Young</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rochester Times-Union | August 6, 1937</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyJr8eq7rSspiLnWaHbF1wSt6k5y1HYju870H-C0reeFVoK2eVOiiLeSKv-F6qVaf_ANbkvh490X5g4MqzWdhvfywDULW3D8_8Y-xC9H06s1JedQ8NCD0-owbSCpHG7kO3LkbUiZsqOGs/s600/03_1938_Football_hero_Detail.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyJr8eq7rSspiLnWaHbF1wSt6k5y1HYju870H-C0reeFVoK2eVOiiLeSKv-F6qVaf_ANbkvh490X5g4MqzWdhvfywDULW3D8_8Y-xC9H06s1JedQ8NCD0-owbSCpHG7kO3LkbUiZsqOGs/s16000/03_1938_Football_hero_Detail.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">1938 | Norman Rockwell<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Football Hero (The Letterman) | detail</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Saturday Evening Post | Cover | November 19, 1938</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: The Best Of N. Rockwell (Courage Books, 1988)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Rockwell is the definitive stamp of approval. He also featured saddle shoes in other prominent paintings like "Liberty Girl" (1943) or his "Triple Self Portrait" (1960). However, this fashion presented some issues.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>SADDLE SHOE PROBLEM</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>As for footwear, you can't put down those saddle shoes that start out in September looking as saddle shoes should and end up in June with the complete disapproval of the dean and the entire faculty.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Most saddle shoe addicts are convinced that the comfort of their classroom footwear, the simplicity of depending on trusty old saddle shoes instead of having to bother with rubbers or overshoes, are reasons enough for tolerating the dirt and run down look of the campus footwear.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>So if you must conform to the saddle shoe tradition, take along some white cleaner and try, once in a while anyway for the sake of the faculty who have to see your feet, to touch up the dirtier spots on those mistreated shoes.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Times Record</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Troy, N.Y | August 27, 1941</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRbXxOFchm_YHKbF1kMNVtkYqUxeKS6gQ7fTYb4ncKjBFVbvqDF81abN9JUxcZxuHRoyXcm-0qP1ihzgnwHM8gLBw4LwbvNlT7JakX6HXTDWGvLqbFs8xE64l_xuIvNeBkKb_mZNb2Aw8/s910/04_Girl_In_The_Can.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="910" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRbXxOFchm_YHKbF1kMNVtkYqUxeKS6gQ7fTYb4ncKjBFVbvqDF81abN9JUxcZxuHRoyXcm-0qP1ihzgnwHM8gLBw4LwbvNlT7JakX6HXTDWGvLqbFs8xE64l_xuIvNeBkKb_mZNb2Aw8/s16000/04_Girl_In_The_Can.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Girl In The Can<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Year & photographer unknown</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/551327651530539256/5783114179096782772#" style="font-size: small;">Saddle Shoe Habitat</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The beginning of the 40's saw the first signs of changing taste among teenagers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>NEW FASHIONS IN SHOES FOR "TEEN AGE GIRL"</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Good-by, brown and white saddle shoe. Hello, shiny moccasins and oxfords.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Schoolgirls are bidding a fond farewell to their beloved, begrimed and be-autographed saddle shoes by government order forbidding the manufacture of two-tone shoes. But they are hailing with equal joy the new fad for well-shined play shoes of brown antique calf or alligator.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>... "We're tired of sloppy saddle shoes", says one spokesman. "We want our feet to look neat now - just as neat as our clothes."</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dorothy Roe</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Binghamton Press | November 23, 1942</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhpNj38SvQA-Hmcr3IoiElpyRzJbMz_-VvszRmXqtNaImW8JViXpJC0tohpOD1gucWicO2OLa6CkiOvd2MpByImQ_iV3VOjRcbWAHISd8BfXQJrvDO1AEqc41oArnv7-bGBYNs-wuw5io/s600/02_LIFE_December_26_+1960+.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhpNj38SvQA-Hmcr3IoiElpyRzJbMz_-VvszRmXqtNaImW8JViXpJC0tohpOD1gucWicO2OLa6CkiOvd2MpByImQ_iV3VOjRcbWAHISd8BfXQJrvDO1AEqc41oArnv7-bGBYNs-wuw5io/s16000/02_LIFE_December_26_+1960+.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">1960 | Saddle Shoes & Bobby Sox<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photograph: Alfred Eisenstaedt<br />Source: LIFE magazine | December 26, 1960</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><br />The very same photograph used for the LIFE cover above reappeared in an article titled <u>"A Dull Moments Of Mad Fads"</u> (December 1960):</div><br style="text-align: left;" /><i style="text-align: left;">This clamp of distant years, the late '30s, during which a man and a maid could view the moon as a thing rather than a place, also included:<br /><br />… saddle shoes and bobby sox were thriving, and later the socks were to thicken into the cherished horse-bandage look …</i><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Elliot Chaze<br /></span></b><span style="text-align: left;">LIFE magazine December 26, 1960</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2021/04/back-on-saddle-shoes-part-1.html" target="_blank">BACK ON THE SADDLE SHOES | PART 2</a></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2021/04/back-on-saddle-shoes-part-3-aka-tbamfw.html" target="_blank">BACK ON THE SADDLE SHOES | PART 3</a></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqpDXBH4e6hLpnq-FIQvuV5oNL1s7Fp8oVCSO5lrEGSgaeZT6BX5EYOhmbR4f0w3xwJAnsilm4lNVj8Fk1oQomUvnYyRelZmr8kLjL2Btuorl_TA5OGFJ00qKSsYDRdilYFYSe8YeDiSs/s709/1938_Football_hero_NR.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqpDXBH4e6hLpnq-FIQvuV5oNL1s7Fp8oVCSO5lrEGSgaeZT6BX5EYOhmbR4f0w3xwJAnsilm4lNVj8Fk1oQomUvnYyRelZmr8kLjL2Btuorl_TA5OGFJ00qKSsYDRdilYFYSe8YeDiSs/s16000/1938_Football_hero_NR.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">1938 | Norman Rockwell<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Football Hero (The Letterman) | Saturday Evening Post | Cover | November 19, 1938<br />Source: The Best Of N. Rockwell (Courage Books, 1988)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>TheHistorialisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07002879907116870993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-551327651530539256.post-64347740314403215262020-12-05T16:08:00.000+01:002023-05-05T12:44:54.007+02:00JAMES LEE BURKE | BOURBON STREET SHOES<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i> “My favorite bunch of hustlers and scam artists, the black sidewalk tap dancers, were out in force. They wore enormous iron taps that clipped onto their shoes, and when they danced to the music from the bars, their feet rang on the concrete like horseshoes."</i></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYCjmp8va5h_iQGfiPSHc8-fTRz0wMl6LbWeZVOxUZW-q5GZbhR32DQKm5XUSPX2pRsTxrfFkTwPaqRJdhsuR8sFZgaJKM0BOBmkb3cYl4exR8oQhKRTR2yGoFZGIAsWnr2EjTCpDKIEw7dBkFfwZo-6OeknomxsHHUtjM5BRLSzMkx40fInCFi0YC/s600/Bourbon_Street_.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYCjmp8va5h_iQGfiPSHc8-fTRz0wMl6LbWeZVOxUZW-q5GZbhR32DQKm5XUSPX2pRsTxrfFkTwPaqRJdhsuR8sFZgaJKM0BOBmkb3cYl4exR8oQhKRTR2yGoFZGIAsWnr2EjTCpDKIEw7dBkFfwZo-6OeknomxsHHUtjM5BRLSzMkx40fInCFi0YC/s16000/Bourbon_Street_.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: medium;">You Betcha!</span><br />Found On <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/113297428/new-orleans-shoe-scam-linocut-louisiana">Etsy</a><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>"A tap dancer would stop a tourist, rivet him in the eyes, and say, "I bet you a half-dollar I can tell you where you got yo' shoes." If the tourist accepted the wager, the dancer would then say, "You got yo' shoes on yo' feet, and yo' feet is on Bourbon Street. You ain't the kind, now, to back out on yo' bet, is you?”</i></div><br /><u>JAMES LEE BURKE<br /></u>From: The Neon Rain (Simon & Schuster, 1987)</blockquote><div><br /></div>FOOTWEAR & BOOKS<br /><a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/p/stranger-than-fiction-andre-perugia.html">Shakespeare, John Fante, James Crumley, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Adams ...</a>TheHistorialisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07002879907116870993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-551327651530539256.post-36454204671163450342019-11-07T08:41:00.000+01:002019-11-07T10:58:19.625+01:00ERTÉ [ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF] FOR DELMAN SHOES<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">From: “Things I Remember” (Quadrangle, 1975</span>)</div>
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<i>“My collaboration with Holeproof Hosiery lasted five years. This foray into the realms of advertising was soon followed by another, for <a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2014/10/1938-herbert-b-delman.html">Hermann Delman Shoes</a>. Once again it was Henry Sell who put me in touch with Delman, a great friend of his. Along with the advertising, Delman asked me to do some shoe designs. In each of his shoe collections he wanted a series of special models of my design. Many of these are now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. </i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">From: “Things I Remember” (Quadrangle, 1975)</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1934 | ERTÉ [ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF] FOR DELMAN</span></div>
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<i>"My collaboration with Delman, which lasted until the outbreak of World War II, was resumed after the war. Delman and I got on very well. He was a pleasant, cheerful man who was fond of the good life. He usually came over to Paris accompanied by his charming girlfriend, who was descended from a line of American-Indian chiefs.”</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1938 | Herman B. Delman</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Detroit Free Press | March 27, 1938</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Left: Delman footwear ad from the Orlando Evening Star | February 5, 1932</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Right: Erté artwork at <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/347957?&searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=Ert%c3%a9+(Romain+de+Tirtoff)&offset=0&rpp=80&pos=72">MET</a> | September 3, 1934</span></div>
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ERTÉ [ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF]</div>
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<i>... I loved shoe salesmen. Not the dispirited store clerks they have now, but actual shoe salesmen who knew their business.</i></div>
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<i>Yes, I'm talking about real shoe men who knew shoes and feet that went in them with an expertise that rivalled that of NASA engineers.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1961 | Vero Cuoio ad detail (Genuine Leather)</span></div>
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That, in a nutshell, is the definition of a "shoe dog", also "shoe-dog" or "shoedog", any way you wanted it. </div>
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To further illustrate the term, take novelist George Pelecanos: back in 1994 he placed a shoedog in the novel of the same name:</div>
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<i>“Yeah. He called you ‘Shoedog’. You gonna tell me now what that’s all about?”</i></div>
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<i>Randolph leaned over the table. “You ever see a dog, man, when he’s walkin’ across a bridge? Well, that dog, he doesn’t look left and he doesn’t look right. He keeps his head down, lookin’ at his paws makin’ a straight line, all the way. And the only thing he’s thinking about, the whole time, is gettin’ to the other side of that bridge.”</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“Shoedog”. (Hachette, 1994)</span></div>
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Hope this is clear. If not - or even if it is - the novel "Shoedog" comes highly recommended. </div>
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More recently the term "shoedog" gained notoriety thanks to Nike's co-founder Phil Knight's memoir:</div>
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<i>“Shoe dogs were people who devoted themselves wholly to the making, selling, buying, or designing of shoes. Lifers used the phrase cheerfully to describe other lifers, men and women who had toiled so long and hard in the shoe trade, they thought and talked about nothing else. It was an all-consuming mania, a recognizable psychological disorder, to care so much about insoles and outsoles, linings and welts, rivets and vamps.”</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">From: “Shoe Dog” (Scribner 2016)</span> </div>
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We cannot say when the term came to life; we do know however that the oldest use of the word in novels (that we know of) comes from beloved/hated critic Leslie A. Fiedler in his short stories collection "Pull Down Vanity, And Other Stories".</div>
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<i>“I am a shoe salesman, a shoe-dog my colleagues prefer to say, too frail and timorous to work ever in the great downtown stores, where each pants leg is creased to an ultimate sharpness, each skull, ferociously brushed and brilliantined, shines in the subdued light, and the quick crackle of conviction spreads from the insolent smile, the jaunty stride, noiseless on the thick carpeting."</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">From the short story "An Expense Of Spirit" off “Pull Down Vanity, And Other Stories”(J.B. Lippincott Company, 1962)</span> </div>
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The short story was first published by the magazine Partisan Review in January 1949 (available online at <a href="http://archives.bu.edu/collections/partisan-review/search/detail?id=283986">Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center</a>); Fiedler also used "shoe dog" again in another story called "Nobody Ever Died from It" (1956), also collected in "Pull Down Vanity".</div>
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The author doesn't delves much into the word meaning, but the book highlights a few passages that shine a light into it. Maybe, he too, was a shoedog after all. [2]</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1921 | I.Miller | Deluxe Shoes</span></div>
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In November 2010, The New York Times run an article titled "American Speech: Lingo of the Shoe Salesman (1934)". It was taken from the archive of American Speech – “a quarterly of linguistic usage” published on behalf of the American Dialect Society.</div>
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It goes to a great length to explain terms such as "up", "McKay", "wrap-up", "chromo","compo", and so on; unfortunately when it comes to our term - at the very end of the article - we got a laconic explanation:</div>
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<i>From what has been said in the foregoing paragraphs, it may have been noticed that the shoe salesman’s lot is not a happy one. This perhaps accounts for his name. In the lingo he is known as a shoe-dog.</i></div>
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Leslie A. Fiedler was indeed a shoedog:</div>
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<i>His Saturdays at the shoe store his uncle managed would begin at eight in the morning and last until he and his fellow workers had cleaned the place at eleven or eleven thirty at night.”</i></div>
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Time to "wrap-up", but if you happen to know more about the word "shoedog", please let us know.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1953 | Roger Vivier | The Coronation Shoe</span></div>
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Over the years this piece of information felt by the wayside leaving the sole Vivier claiming fatherhood. Of course Delman acquired by Genesco - and slowly fading into oblivion - didn't help, but it is truly remarkable that H.R. Rayne forgot about it in spite of their role as Royal Family's supplier being prominently showcased on their <a href="http://www.rayneshoes.co.uk/">website</a>. </div>
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Moreover, H.R. Rayne was the first name to be erased from the whole deal as we were able to retrace only two mentions: one in 1953, when Delman celebrated the joint venture with Dior, and another one in 1957, although, we are sure, more sources can be traced in the U.K.</div>
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The only book that touch upon the Delman - H.R. Rayne collaboration is Mary Trasko's "Heavenly Soles": the picture on top comes from page 68 and following is the original caption: </div>
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<i>"… design by Roger Vivier of the coronation shoes for Elisabeth II, 1953, created in association with English manufacturers Rayne. The gold kidskin sandal had a slight platform for comfort (since the Queen remained standing during the three-hour ceremony) and a heel studded with garnets. Pen and pencil on paper. (Roger Vivier, Paris)"</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1953 | Roger Vivier</span></div>
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This is the most famous shoe never seen when shod (cause the length of the gown) and even when not shod. No pictures are in existence of the Vivier's Coronation shoe, nor the original artefacts since they were not part of "The Queen's Coronation 1953" (Buckingham Palace, 27 July-29 September 2013). </div>
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More than that, even serious historians doubted that Vivier designed the Coronation shoe:</div>
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<i>In a recent discussion I had with Alexandra Kim, a former curator at Kensington Palace, Kim said: </i></div>
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<i>“<u>...there are no surviving (coronation) shoes that they know of and no record of them being Vivier… it seems highly unlikely that the queen would wear the shoes of a French shoemaker for this event and I also think that she might have chosen more comfortable/practical shoes for an event which was long, with a heavy crown to worry about and shoes that wouldn’t be seen.”</u></i><u> </u></div>
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So, here goes the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth:</div>
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<i><u>"I made the design here in my peaceful workshop after being inspired by the rose windows of Chartres and I sent it to London last December,"</u> he </i>(Vivier) <i>said. <u>"The Queen accepted the design and I have made a unique pair of shoes which are at the same time light and strong to bear the strain of Coronation Day."</u></i></div>
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<i>He said the model was to remain secret up to the Coronation next Tuesday so no other woman could copy it ahead of time and wear the same thing.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">United Press Staff Correspondent | May 25, 1953</span></div>
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It is understood that, as soon as Coronation Day was over, Herman Delman cashed in on the project:</div>
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<i>"Delman is the creator of the gold kid slippers Queen Elisabeth wore on Coronation Day ... the new queen's slippers, with an open "rose-window" medallion edged with jewels on the toe and rubies in the slender heel, are being duplicated for sale in America this fall.</i></div>
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<i>"Her majesty wears a size five, narrow", according to Herman Delman, head of Delman, Ltd., whose French salon made the shoes for Elisabeth.</i></div>
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<i>The shoes cost the court nearly 20 guineas (slightly over $50) - but Delman hastens to add that next fall there will be copies available in all sizes for American women at less. About $49,75 he figures</i>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Delman's Coronation Shoe up for sale</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Left - The Corpus Christi Caller Times | August 30, 1953</span></div>
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Given all the above, we now have proof that Vivier designed the coronation shoe via Delman while the role of H.R. Rayne is certain but vague. We'll leave that to our friend <a href="http://missrayneonshoes.blogspot.com/">Miss Rayne</a> to further investigate.<br />
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Here things get interesting: in 2013, for the 60th Coronation Anniversary, the brand Roger Vivier (the man died in 1998) manufactured a Coronation Replica to celebrate the event and they failed to mention the original was made by another brand.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Coronation Shoe REPLICA in Hong Kong (January 2013)</span><br />
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On the other hand, Delman and H.R. Rayne said nothing, but Bally Of Switzerland went beyond outer limits:</div>
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<i>Bally has created an exclusive exhibition in Australia and Singapore to commemorate the 2012 Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, showcasing two replica pairs of shoes worn by the Queen at her wedding and coronation. </i><br />
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<i>Selected from the Bally Shoe Museum’s treasures, these replicas of the shoes worn by HM Queen Elizabeth II for her 1947 wedding to His Royal Highness Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, and her 1953 Royal Coronation will be on display for the first time in Australia and Singapore in selected Bally stores during August. </i><br />
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<i>The Queen’s wedding shoes, crafted from duchesse satin, and her Royal Coronation shoes, created with gold kidskin, will be on display exclusively at the Bally Queen Victoria Building Boutique in Sydney, from August 1-8, 2012. </i><br />
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Source: <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Bally/posts/queen-elizabeth-iis-are-now-on-exhibit-at-the-bally-collins-street-boutique-in-m/268416523269288/">Bally</a></b></div>
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Now: how silly is that? Actually Bally didn't say they made the coronation shoe but only the replica, only it bears no resemblance to the authentic Coronation shoe. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Coronation shoes according to Bally | Replica</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1985 | Andy Warhol</span></div>
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<i>Next, we went to work with my aunt, who had a shoe factory. We had to work with gallons of glue, and a lot of the workers were addicted to sniffing it. They would sniff that shit and be high for hours, so we did it too, and we got high as fuck. Imagine me at 12 years old, sniffing glue and making shoes, out of my fucking mind. </i></div>
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<i>It’s a weird high, man: I’ve never really experienced anything like it since. It’s a little bit like being on acid—you hallucinate and you hear voices. At one point I remember I sniffed so much glue that I saw my dad. I saw him standing at the door in front of me, and I freaked out. He was pissed at me: it was very serious, and I saw it as a sign of him saying, ‘Cut that shit out or you’re going to die.’</i></div>
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<i>This prompted a family meeting in which Mum, Pop and Pat decreed that I should now ‘get a proper job’. So I went to the Royal Arsenal Co-op Society warehouse in Woolwich, where I got a job packing and loading shoes from seven ’til five, with the option of doing an hour-and-a-half’s overtime. This was great ’cos the manager would always clock off at five and we’d end up playing football in the yard and getting paid for it.</i></div>
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<i>“Your career is important to me, Jack. And the reason your career is important to me is because it’s unique. If I wanted to be in the shoe business, eight million shoes all the same, I’d be in the shoe business. The business I’m in, this crazy mad business of show business, not shoe business, in which I thank God I’ve had a certain modicum of success, in this business, every new face, every new body, every new voice, every new talent that comes through that door is a separate and unique challenge, another opportunity for me to prove myself. </i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1940 | Master shoemaker</span></div>
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<i>I finally found my home in a Red Wing store. But I couldn't wear work boots everywhere. Sometimes I needed sneakers and of course, dress shoes. This got a little tougher when there was a major shift in the world of shoe retailing that would frustate my life to this very day: the death of the professional shoe salesman.</i></div>
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<i>Not true. I loved shoe salesman. Not the dispirited store clerks they have now, but actual shoe salesmen who knew their business.</i></div>
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<i>“A man makes a pair of shoes - the best - he expects nothing of it: he knows they will wear out: that’s the end of the good shoe, the good man. Any kind of a scribbler writes any kind of a poem and expects it to last forever. Yet the poems wear out, too—often faster than the shoes. I don’t know but in the long run almost as many shoes as poems last out the experience - we put the shoes into museums, we put the poems into books.”</i></div>
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NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOE BUSINESS | PART 1<br /><a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2019/10/no-business-like-shoe-business-part-1.html">Igor Stravinsky, Tennessee Williams, Charles Willeford, George Clooney</a><br /><br />FOOTWEAR & BOOKS<br /><a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/p/stranger-than-fiction-andre-perugia.html">Shakespeare, John Fante, James Crumley, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Adams ...</a><div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">1963 | Jerry Lewis | Who's minding the store?</span></div>
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This is what Tchaikowwsky says in one of his letters: <i>"Since I began to compose I have made it my object to be, in my craft, what the most illustrious masters were in theirs; that is to say, I wanted to be, like them, an artisan, just as a shoemaker is .... (They) composed their immortal works exactly as a shoemaker makes shoes; that is to say, day in, day out, and for the most part to order."</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1954 | Shoe Business</span></div>
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I got the job because Dad had procured for the top boss his position at the Continental Shoemakers branch. (This was still before the poker game and the decline and fall of “Big Daddy.”) Of course the bosses were anxious to find an excuse to get me out. They put me to the most tedious and arduous jobs. I had to dust off hundreds of shoes in the sample rooms every morning; then I had to spend several hours typing out factory orders.</div>
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Digits, nothing but digits! About four in the afternoon, I was dispatched to the establishment of our main client, J. C. Penney, with great packing cases of shoes for their acceptance or rejection. The cases “were so heavy that it was a strain to lift them: I could carry them only half a block before having to set them down to catch my breath.</div>
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<i>"You know why they said that? It's because the rest rooms in shoe stores are the dirtiest johns in the entire United States. Shoe salesmen, wearing suits and ties, think they're too good to clean up their john, so they let it go to hell. You can get two hours' work, or six bucks, for every shoe-shop john you clean. They're filthy."</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1951 | Naturalizer | ad detail</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1941 | The Devil & Miss Jones</span><br />
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<i>“... she liked to play the gangster’s daughter, but her father was a famous Butte tailor - she sported black jeans, a white cowboy shirt, red boots that matched her mouth, and an attitude as sharp and sparking as a straight razor.”</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">From: “The Right Madness” (Viking Hardcover, 2005)</span></div>
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<i>“Once we had drinks in hand and perched on stools at the breakfast bar, Cathy sighed, then said, “Austin in the seventies. What a fucking circus. It was like Hollywood with cowboy boots. Or maybe, what we thought Hollywood was like."</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1939 - 2008 | James Crumley</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1961 | Piero Manzoni</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Franco Angeli's Right Shoe (private collection, Como)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1961 | Piero Manzoni</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Franco Angeli's Right Shoe (private collection, Como)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1961 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sandal with criss-cross jewelled straps</span></div>
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<i>... you may custom order the shoe of your choice in any fabric or leather, and trimmed to your liking. For instance, the shoe pictured here is peau de soie trimmed with fake jewels. If you'd like it plain or in brocade that's the way our Dave will make it for you. It's as easy as that, and fun too.</i> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>October 31, 1961</b></span></div>
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Either plain or trimmed with jewels or whatever, it would be nice to see an actual model but, as it is, no such luck. The closest thing would be the ad here below, probably from the same collection.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1961 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sandal with criss-cross jewelled straps</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Democrat And Chronicle (Rochester, New York) October 31, 1961</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1961 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fancy Footwork</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: The Boston Globe - October 17, 1961</span></div>
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<br />TheHistorialisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07002879907116870993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-551327651530539256.post-18562252064082439652019-07-26T14:11:00.002+02:002019-07-26T14:11:13.115+02:001960 | DAVID EVINS | LOW CUT SHELL PUMP<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1960 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Low cut shell pump | Multi-colored fabric, multi-coloured rhinestones</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://collection.goldstein.design.umn.edu/proficiowebmodule/JDetail.aspx?db=objects&dir=GOLDSTEIN&rID=1980.115.020a-b">Source: The Goldstein Museum Of Design</a></span></div>
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<i>Fall's new directions are delicately pointed, gracefully slimmed down and proportioned. The arrow toe, the elongated slender toe, the low cut shell. </i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Orlando Evening Star - October 5, 1960</b></span></blockquote>
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The above description fits the Evins shoe as well as others featured in the advertisement here below, yet the Evins silhouette is unmistakable.</div>
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It is part of the great collection of The Goldstein Museum of Design. The museum offers no date so we kindly provide one that is reliable.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1960 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Low cut shell pump</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Orlando Evening Star - October 5, 1960</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1960 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Low cut shell pump | Multi-colored fabric, multi-coloured rhinestones</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://collection.goldstein.design.umn.edu/proficiowebmodule/JDetail.aspx?db=objects&dir=GOLDSTEIN&rID=1980.115.020a-b">Source: The Goldstein Museum Of Design</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1960 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Low cut shell pump | Multi-colored fabric, multi-coloured rhinestones</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://collection.goldstein.design.umn.edu/proficiowebmodule/JDetail.aspx?db=objects&dir=GOLDSTEIN&rID=1980.115.020a-b">Source: The Goldstein Museum Of Design</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1960 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://collection.goldstein.design.umn.edu/proficiowebmodule/JDetail.aspx?db=objects&dir=GOLDSTEIN&rID=1980.115.020a-b">Source: The Goldstein Museum Of Design</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1969 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The "Serpentine" sandal</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: The Herald Statesman (Yonkers, NY) - March 10, 1969</span></div>
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<i>"SERPENTINE" - The rose moire high-rising sandal with scroll beading in crystal and rhinestones is from the "ultra pants-oriented" collection by David Evins. At Mr. Jay, 237 Millburn Avenue - Millburn, N.J. </i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Source: The Item (of Millburn And Short Hills) - May 15, 1969</b></span></blockquote>
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The "Serpentine" sandal was actually showcased at the end of 1968 and here below you can see Mr. Evins proudly holding the model.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1968 | David Evins holding the "Serpentine"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: News Journal (Mansfield, Ohio) - October 17, 1968</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1969 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The "Serpentine" sandal</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Detroit Free Press - January 16, 1969</span></div>
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Starting from 1989 it's been said that the "Serpentine" sandal (never referred as such) was made in 1962 for singer/actress/activist Lena Horne. First it was a <a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2019/07/1966-david-evins-red-green-satin.html">1989 calamitous press photo</a> and picked up the same year by the book "Shoes: Fashion And Fantasy" by Colin McDowell. Others followed suit, like the ubiquitous "Shoes" by Linda O'Keeffe, and of course countless web sites. </div>
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McDowell text, next to the picture here below, highlighted that <i>footwear - especially made for stars and celebrities - must match their strong personalities and because of that, celebrities can be shod in footwear that the ordinary woman won't dare to touch.</i></div>
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So, although we are a bit late to tell you Mr. McDowell, this "Lena Horne sandal" wasn't made for Lena Horne (hats off) but for the ordinary woman like me and that I'm very willing to try it if only I could find a pair. Kind regards.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1968 | The "Serpentine" sandal</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">As seen in "Shoes" by Colin McDowell (1989)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1954 | Beth & Herbert Levine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"The Circles", stay-on mule</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<i>HERBERT LEVINE, famous for the stay-on magnet insole. "The Circles" in black or navy suede, 27,95 Gold reptile 29,95.</i></div>
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The MAGNET insole was Levine's own take of Maxwell Sachs' spring-o-lator. The Levines were the first to experiment Maxwell's invention (as seen in LIFE magazine May 24, 1954) but were not granted exclusive rights for its use. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1954 | Beth & Herbert Levine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"The Circles", stay-on mule (detail)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Detroit Free Press - September 12, 1954</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1954 | Beth & Herbert Levine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"The Circles", stay-on mule</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1954 | Beth & Herbert Levine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"The Circles" with other heavy hitters of the footwear industry</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Detroit Free Press - September 12, 1954</span></div>
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<u>BETH & HERBERT LEVINE</u></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1954 | Beth & Herbert Levine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Stay-On Shoe</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: LIFE magazine - May 24, 1954</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1966 | Beth & Herbert Levine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: The Tennessean (Nashville) September 15, 1966</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1965 | Beth & Herbert Levine</span></div>
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The Houland-Swanson ad here below (August 1965) shows on top the model <a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2018/12/1966-beth-herbert-levine-model-tracery.html">TRACERY SQUARE</a>, <i>our</i> unnamed buckled pump, another pump with brass horseshoe trim ("Lucky Me silhouette) and finally another pump that remains at large. For now.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1965 | Beth & Herbert Levine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1965 | Beth & Herbert Levine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Pump with horseshoe brass trim</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1965 | Beth & Herbert Levine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Pump with horseshoe brass trim (Detail)</span></div>
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<u>BETH & HERBERT LEVINE<br />FINE SHOES<br /><a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2018/04/happy-easter-one-and-all.html">I N D E X</a></u><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">1965 | Beth & Herbert Levine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Pump with horseshoe brass trim (LUCKY ME silhouette)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana) - August 15, 1965</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1966 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Buckled satin slippers (detail)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: San Francisco Examiner - August 24, 1966</span></div>
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<i>"Never were fashion and footwear so dependant on each other. Take the new party pants and at-home things. They're either extravagantly elaborate or extravagantly amusing"</i></div>
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He (Lee Evins) displayed the perfect shoe answer for either category: a pair of backless pumps with enormous round jewelled buckles one shoe red, the other go-ahead green.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">San Francisco Examiner - August 24, 1966</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1966 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Red & green buckled satin slippers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: "Shoes" (Workman Publishing, 1996)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1966 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="http://fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/1/dynasty-desc?t:state:flow=251972c5-8cee-4133-850c-9d19819348ab">The Museum at FIT</a></span></div>
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<b>SO, WHAT ABOUT AVA GARDNER?</b></div>
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Both Linda O'Keffe's book "Shoes" and The Museum At FIT states that this slipper was made for the famed actress although with different dates: 1955 the former and 1960 the latter.</div>
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Most probably they were both mistaken by a 1989 press photo that collected four shoes supposedly made for as many celebrities: Liz Taylor, Lena Horne, Ava Gardner and Judy Garland <i>(clockwise from top of the below photo).</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1989 Press photo | David Evins shoes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Photograph: Buster Dean</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Historic Images</span></div>
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And while all of them were certified Evins customers, for at least three shoes out of four we can prove they were part of an <i>ordinary</i> Evins collection. Lee Evins' statement on top is proof of that; also, take the photograph here below: the lady assisted by Lee Evins doesn't look like Ava Gardner, does she?</div>
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Case closed.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1966 | Lee Evins at I. Magnin shoe salon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Right below corner: buckled satin slippers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: San Francisco Examiner - August 24, 1966</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2018/07/1962-meet-greet-david-evins-source-los.html">I N D E X</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1996 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">No Ava Gardner, no 1955: is "Stop & Go" at least correct?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: "Shoes" (Workman Publishing, 1996)</span></div>
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TheHistorialisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07002879907116870993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-551327651530539256.post-55557525607170526332019-07-09T15:19:00.001+02:002019-07-09T15:19:40.288+02:001965 | DAVID EVINS | FROM THE BOTTOMS UP SERIES<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1965 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A model from the BOTTONS UP collection</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="http://collection.goldstein.design.umn.edu/proficiowebmodule/JDetail.aspx?db=objects&dir=GOLDSTEIN&rID=1990.005.024a-b">Goldstein Museum of Design</a></span></div>
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<i>David Evins's toast to the new season. He starts literally at the bottom of a new Miss Evins walking shoe of glove soft crushed calf by molding a sole of sueded leather as soft and flexible as a moccasin in strong color contrast.</i> </div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Arizona Republic - February 15, 1965</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1965 | David Evins at Woolf Brothers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: The Kansas City Times - August 18, 1965</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1965 | David Evins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1956 | Delman</span></div>
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<i>CHANDELIER - Born to get many a backward glance ... a glittering "Chandelier Heel" on a black satin evening pump by Delman. Crystals dangle from a fine steel wire spiralling around a 1/4-inch steel column strategically placed under the heel to perfectly balance foot and carry body weight. Retail price is about $150. It can be made to order in fabric or leather.</i> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1931 | MELLY by Pompeo Ravizza</span></div>
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The first trademark of the firm <b>“POMPEO RAVIZZA”</b> and the brand name Melly, was made on July,9, 1929 at the Regional Council of the Economy of Milan. The company was based in Parabiago, in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele 4 (now Piazza Maggiolini) and was specialized in the production of luxury and handmade women's footwear.</div>
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The shoe factory was among the sponsors of the magazine born in the Parabiago area <a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2011/04/ss-33-lost-found-travaglia-moroni.html">"Il Modello della Calzatura"</a> ("The Shoe Model"), where we found the first advertisement, published in 1931. In the Industrial Yearbook of Milan Province (1939) it was stated that it produced handmade welts and that the models were exported to England and Switzerland.</div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">La prima registrazione della <b>DITTA POMPEO RAVIZZA</b> e del nome Melly, fu fatta il 9 luglio 1929 presso il Consiglio Regionale dell'Economia di Milano. La ditta aveva sede a Parabiago, in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele 4 (l’attuale Piazza Maggiolini) ed era dedicata alla produzione a mano di calzature di lusso da donna. </span></div>
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Il calzaturificio fu tra gli sponsor della rivista nata nell'area di Parabiago "<a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2011/04/ss-33-lost-found-travaglia-moroni.html">Il modello della Calzatura</a>", nella quale abbiamo trovato la prima pubblicità, pubblicata nel 1931. Nell’Annuario industriale della Provincia di Milano del 1939 si specificava che era specializzata nella lavorazione del guardolo a mano e che i modelli venivano esportati in Inghilterra e Svizzera. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1938 | MELLY by Pompeo Ravizza</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1961 | <a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2016/06/1961-in-key-of-g-albion-florence.html">Albion | Florence</a></span></div>
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1925 | ANDRE PERUGIA<br />
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1950 | DELMAN<br />
<a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2016/10/1950-delman-digging-gold-dirt.html">"TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY" GOLD SANDAL</a><br />
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1957 | SHARPENED SHOES<br />
<a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2018/06/1957-sharpened-shoes-cyrano-last-by.html">THE CYRANO LAST BY BETH & HERBERT LEVINE</a><br />
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1957 | JOSEPHI OF DELMAN<br />
<a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2016/02/1957-josephi-of-delman-rose-petal-sandal.html">THE ROSE PETAL SANDAL</a><br />
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1961 | ALBION | FLORENCE<br />
<a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2016/06/1961-in-key-of-g-albion-florence.html">G-CLEF SANDAL</a><br />
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1967 | DAVID EVINS<br />
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1967 | BETH & HERBERT LEVINE<br />
<a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2018/12/1973-beth-herbert-levine-circles-of.html">CIRCLES OF SUEDE</a><br />
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INTRODUCING BETH & HERBERT LEVINE<br />
<a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2018/04/introducing-beth-herbert-levine-1949.html">PART 2</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">1961 | <a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2016/06/1961-in-key-of-g-albion-florence.html">Albion | Florence</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1949 | The "Ripple" Crepe Sole</span></div>
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<i><b>GIRLS!<br />PENNEY'S HAS THEM. THE NEW AND EXCITING<br />RIPPLE SOLE LOAFERS</b></i> </blockquote>
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<i>The ripple sole is a smooth moulded rubber wrap on a conventional crepe sole, with an added feature Western buckle. Two fall colours.</i> </blockquote>
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The term "Ripple sole" was already out there since the early 40's and usually meant ripple-edged sole used both for men's and women's and later for kids' (above image). However, retired Detroit shoe salesman <u>Nathan Hack</u> had a different idea in mind when he though of it.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1952 | Rippling Walking</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: The Daily Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) - April 24, 1952</span></div>
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<i>Nathan Hack said his new "ripple sole" is the first new departure in footwear since Julius Caesar put heels on shoes to enable his soldiers to walk farther. "<u>And that was 2000 years ago" </u>he said.</i> </div>
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<i>Hack, past president of the Detroit Shoe Retailers Association, said the ripple sole is made of a rubber-leather composition. It is attached beneath the regular sole and <u>"lengthens each stride six inches more than ordinary shoes"</u>, Hack said.</i> </div>
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<i>The ripple sole consists of a series of waves running from the front of the heel to the tip of the toe. As the body leans forward, each successive ripple gives way so that when a step is completed one has the feeling that he is walking downhill.</i> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1953 | First actual application of the Ripple Sole</span></div>
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Hack stumbled upon the ripple sole with the help of <u>Dr. Lawrence E. Morehouse </u>while searching for a shoe to cut down the hazards of broken legs and ankles among paratroopers. Jumps tests were taken and the results were successful to a certain degree. Still, while walking, the testers reported a "walking on air" feeling and that gave the two inventors the idea to further experiment the sole for a different use.</div>
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<i>The ripple sole absorbed shock, stored energy and then aided in lifting the foot for the next step ... The inventors believe ripple soles will prove a blessing for postmen and policemen and others who spend most of the day on their feet.</i> </div>
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<i><u>"I think the ripple sole will find a place in athletic events too"</u> said Hatch. <u>"At least it will relieve the strain on million of pairs of feet"</u>.</i> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1953 | The Ripple Sole for athletic shoes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: The Daily Herald (December 25, 1953)</span></div>
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The Ripple Sole forerunner was a convalescent boot he gave on a royalty-free basis to the U.S. Army in 1944. Nathan Hack called it his <u>"contributions to the war effort"</u> and his way to pay back a debt he owns to Uncle Sam.<br />
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The Ripple Sole gained momentum when two national magazines (Colliers and The Reader's Digest) run extensive articles about Hack's invention. The applications in standard footwear became apparent so he patented his idea (assigned to the Ripple Sole Corp.) and licensed it domestically to Nashua's Beebe Rubber Co. (New Hampshire) at the end of 1955. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">1952 | The Resilient Shoe Soles by Nathan Hack</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Filed July 14, 1952 - Granted June 14, 1955</span></div>
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Adopted by many producers (Levy's, Naturalizers, Palizzio, Florsheim, Sandler of Boston...), the Ripple Sole became a success (<i>The Ripple That Became a Tidal Wave</i>) and starting from 1957 a "Ripple Sole Week" was held in Tucson and lasted until the early 1970s. </div>
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Nathan Hack died at 87, October 4, 1971 in Santa Monica, California. He came from Poland at the age of 16 and founded in Detroit the "Hack Shoe Company" in 1916. He later became president of The Greater Detroit Shoe Retailers Association and honorary life president of the Michigan Shoe Association. The photograph here below portrays Hack in 1966.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1966 | Nathan Hack and his Ripple Soles</span></div>
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To rephrase Nathan Hack quote: <i>the ripple sole will relieve the strain of dozen </i><u>shoe designers</u><i> looking for something old to be copied.</i> And that happened straight away.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1971 | V.I.P. (Verolanuova Industria Plastica)</span></div>
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<i>"After much testing Adidas has come up with THE ripple sole: soft, durable, extremely comfortable and functional." </i></blockquote>
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<b>FROM A 1972 ADIDAS ADVERTISEMENT.</b> </blockquote>
After much testing, <i>THEIR</i> ripple sole was used for the models ANTELOPE and ROM.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">1988 | Patrick Cox</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">2012 Buttero; 2013/2014 Ash; 2012 Hiroshi Tsubouchi; 2015 Paciotti</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1956 | Frattegiani | Florence</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photograph: JSS/Keystone</span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;"> </span></div>
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THE SHOEMAKER FRATTEGIANI | FLORENCE<br />
<a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2013/04/the-shoemaker-frattegiani-florence.html">PART 1</a> - <a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2019/06/the-shoemaker-frattegiani-florence-part.html">PART 2</a><br />
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1502 - 1949 | FRATTEGIANI<br />
<a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2018/03/1949-frattegiani-kimo-concept-before.html">THE KIMO CONCEPT BEFORE THE KIMO/SPAGHETTI SANDAL</a><br />
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FRATTEGIANI HEELS<br />
<a href="http://www.thehistorialist.com/2019/06/1952-1956-frattegiani-heels-ceramic.html">1952 - 1956 | CERAMIC, MOSAIC, CORK? YOU NAME IT</a><br />
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1952 | FRATTEGIANI<br />
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1955 | FRATTEGIANI<br />
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1955 | FRATTEGIANI | FLORENCE<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">1955 | Frattegiani Sandals</span></div>
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