Best Shoes

Every now and then (er read once a week or so) I browse shoes at Amazon, not because I intend to buy any, or because they are the most fashionable either. Perhaps because I'm not overwhelmed by trashy pole dancing platforms and everyones impulse purchases from New Look and Primark that don't actually fit but were only £8.
Anyway, here are some faves from this week's trawl.

Victorian Boots

30s Walking Shoe

80s Classic

Wedge Chelsea Boots

Brogued Mary Janes

No Brainer

Miss L Fire

Cheap Teese

Blue Dream

Suede & Patent

The Go-Between

For those early autumn days when it's neither warm nor cold. This doesn't seem to happen much in England these days.
Everywoman magazine September 1948. Click for big.

Everywoman magazine September 1948. Click for big.

A year after the New Look and they're still not too happy about it.

Soft & Warm Angora Collar Knitting Pattern

Perfect for autumn now the evenings are getting chilly.

Housewife Magazine November 1954

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Shoes - Autumn Inspiration

Delta Shoes August 1944

Bective September 1949

Holmes October 1949

Dolcis September 1941

K Bootees October 1954

All scanned by Miss Rayne

I Made It Myself - Simplicity Pattern 2306 from 1937

Scanned from Woman's Fair September 1937

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Click for Big. Personally I'd settle for the shoes!

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1940s Hollywood Stars in Colour #11

Number eleven in a series of colour photographs

Linda Darnell in Forever Amber

Viva 1959

This photo epitomises my idea of fifties style.
It says glamour, wealth, charm, good living. There is a feeling of casual elegance and relaxed feminine sophistication that was soon to disappear as the sixties progressed.

Housewife magazine June 1959. Click for big.

I love her smile, her confidence and the fact her boy is more interested in his drink than her. The Italian feel of the bar hints at a foreign pleasures and international design influences. Yet you can tell at a glance she is English.

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