If you follow along on Facebook, you will have seen a photo of this exquisite shoe. I hunted these on eBay a little while ago and was overjoyed to have won them. They’re so perrrrrfect.
They’re a size 5 1/2 A, completely unwearable, but these beauties are like little sculptures, and a very typical pair of shoes from the later 1930s. I’m tickled to look in late ’30s catalogs and see shoes so very similar, and one of these days I expect I’ll find an ad for these precise ones.
Like the perforated sporty pumps from a few days ago, these oxfords will travel oversees to be sampled into a modern version we ladies will actually be able to get on our footsies. (btw, no harm will come to the vintage shoes as they are being sampled; they are only there for study)
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| These shoes were never worn – they spent their life as store displays. |
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| The original laces |
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| These have quite a high heel – 2.75 inches, but I think a 2.5 inch heel would maintain the integrity of the design, while being just as period and more manageable to wear. |
16 Comments
Sara J.
March 24, 2012 at 9:44 PMI would buy these SO fast, in as many colors as you make them…
Ash
March 24, 2012 at 10:08 PMI think you should keep the 2 3/4" heel! It's so hard to find nice period shoes with (what I think of as) decent heels.
Sara J.
March 25, 2012 at 2:06 AMI like the higher heel too!
Vienna La Rouge
March 27, 2012 at 3:42 AMLikewise, I think the original height of 2 3/4" is not unrealistic for most people. That seems like a very low heel to begin with, in my opinion, but then, I tend to go for higher heels anyway 😉
E. Waterman
March 25, 2012 at 12:23 AMThey will fit my teensy tinsy feeet! I love these so much. They would look amazing with skinny jeans.
Anne Kirstine Toft Jørgensen
March 25, 2012 at 12:29 PMVery nice shoes – the sports pumps were also adorable…both of the shoes are very pointy, are the modern versions also going to be that? The shoes in the beginning of the 30's were that – but people also had smaller feet, and were use to wearing smaller shoes. A good idea is perhaps to make the toebox a tiny bit bigger and more round?
American Duchess
March 26, 2012 at 12:54 AMI suspect these shoes look so pointy because they are such a narrow width. I like the rounder toes, personally, too.
Maggie
March 25, 2012 at 3:46 PMThey're really cute!
Magdalen Aithne Arkright
March 25, 2012 at 5:02 PMI absolutely adore Oxfords!
Kelly
March 25, 2012 at 5:47 PMIf we could preorder these before April 27th, I would be a happy lady because I could have these for my birthday!
American Duchess
March 26, 2012 at 12:55 AMOh, these won't be ready until next year, but I appreciate your enthusiasm for them 🙂
Margravine Louisa
March 26, 2012 at 12:53 AMare you really thinking of manufacturing these???
American Duchess
March 26, 2012 at 12:55 AMYes, I really am, but not until next year, and then only if there is enough support, of course.
M'lady
March 26, 2012 at 3:00 PMooh, what pretty shoes. You could wear them today and no one would guess they weren't modern.
KittyKatt
March 26, 2012 at 3:21 PMMore 1930s fun: http://www.retronaut.co/2011/07/shoe-design-c-1939/
Kate
April 14, 2012 at 2:46 PMOut of curiosity, how do you know they were store samples?