1861-1870ish
Men’s Footwear
- Leather shoes and ankle boots sometimes with contrasting toecaps
- Medium-high leather heels
- fabric gussets, side button fastenings, laced fastenings
- Narrow square toes
Women’s Footwear
- Leather soles, sometimes covered in fabric
- Fabric or silk linings
- Round and pointed toes
- One to two-inch heels
- Black satin slippers
- Colored shoes matching dresses
- Button or elastic sided boots
- Possible trimmings and fastenings: laced fastening through eyelets, bows, beaded embroidery, ribbon, buckles, rosettes, tassels
Resources
- Peacock, John. Shoes: The Complete Sourcebook, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1604/9780500512128.
- Peacock, John. Costume 1066 to the Present 3e: A Complete Guide to English Costume Design and History, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1604/9780500286029.
- Cunnington, C. Willett. English Women’s Clothing in the Nineteenth Century. Mineola, New York, United States: Dover, 1990.
- “Women 1863, Plate 084,” n.d. https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll12/id/5031/rec/40.
- “File:James Tissot – The Circle of the Rue Royale – Google Art Project.Jpg – Wikimedia Commons,” n.d. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Tissot_-_The_Circle_of_the_Rue_Royale_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg.
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