Shoes, April 1943, ads in Ladies Home Journal...
Shoes, April 1943, ads in Ladies Home Journal...
"Give away her gowns, Give away her shoes; She has no more use For her fragrant gowns; Take them all down, Blue, green, blue, Lilac, pink, blue, From their padded hangers; She will dance no more In her narrow shoes; Sweep her narrow shoes From the closet floor." Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1959)
#1940s #shoes
"Give away her gowns, Give away her shoes; She has no more use For her fragrant gowns; Take them all down, Blue, green, blue, Lilac, pink, blue, From their padded hangers; She will dance no more In her narrow shoes; Sweep her narrow shoes From the closet floor." Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1959)
#1940s #shoes
Ya know, it just isn't at all difficult to see why many women decline to wear high heels.
ReplyDeleteMike Martin No kidding!!
ReplyDeleteDon't like the look of those straight fronts to the shoes. What people do/did for fashion. I can remember wearing winkle-pickers.
ReplyDeleteMike Perry I don't know what a winkle-picker was, but it sure is a great name:-)
ReplyDeleteAnn Kennedy They had a sharp and long pointed toe.
ReplyDeleteMy Mom loved her high heels. Worked all through the 40's, 50's, 60's and into the 70's wearing them to work as a teacher. As she got older, her shoes started looking more comfortable. Although she slipped off those heels when she got home, she never complained or needed foot surgery. Stoic perhaps or just loved those shoes???
ReplyDeleteMike Perry OH! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteCharlotte Wirfs I think our mom's generation was probably a bit tougher than our's perhaps:-) At least more so than I am!
ReplyDeleteWith my back, it's difficult to find even flats that are comfortable. But it's still nice to have a few pairs! LOL
ReplyDeleteEach of the photo's are wonderful. I remember my mom talking about the Selby Shoe's and how she wished they still made them because they were so comfortable! This was back in the 60's.
ReplyDeleteWonderful post Ann Kennedy I do so love the things you bring us.
All this talk of fitting shoes, reminded me that sometime in the late '50s to early '60s, my brother obtained a working model of a Shoe-fitting fluoroscope.
ReplyDeleteHe was an electronics whiz kid, and the whole family was into science. He had it torn apart, and we had a small, transportable X-Ray Machine. We played with it a bit and had real fun putting just about anything under it! Sadly, (or is that safely?) after a couple of months of fun, the main tube that produced the rays, burned out.
That was just the first time I was exposed to serious radiation. But that is another story. :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
Oshi Shikigami My goodness girl, it is a wonder you don't glow...or do you? The link is scary, but quite interesting. Thanks for sharing yet another very interesting part of your life with us.
ReplyDeleteOshi Shikigami Oh no! Of all things to play with! I remember how they used to x-ray one foot in the shoe stores but I can't recall the contraption they used. Scary to read the link! I love your story!
ReplyDeleteMargaret Siemers Thanks, Margaret! I appreciate that! I have no idea why this issue was so full of shoe ads. Maybe plugging for Easter dress-up stuff in April.
ReplyDeleteI have done photo work in reactors and cyclotrons, long before there was Osha, or anything like it. Often I had no safety equipment at all, or just steel-toed boots and a hardhat.
ReplyDeleteFor decades, I had some sample fuel pellets of Uranium, from a reactor, in my desk drawer. I would use it with chunks of unexposed film to do my own 'X-Rays'!
With all the difficulties with my back, I am constantly getting X-Rays. The use a fluoroscope to monitor every injection I get in my back, and I have likely had more than a hundred by now, over the years.
I have often said, "I am my own night-light". :-)
Oshi Shikigami You are a star in more ways than one:-)
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