Steven Arpad | c. 1940
Posts tagged Shoe.
Gorgeous evening shoes produced by shoe makers to the royal family in London, England in the 1890s, the end of Queen Victoria’s reign. These pumps are based in a fine cream satin and are embellished with small, multi-layered bows and intricate beading and silver spangles. The shoes have sophisticated Louis heels. The inside is lined in kid leather and cloth and are stamped with the shoe-maker’s seal.
Hook Knowels & Co Evening Shoe | c. 1890
Slippers | c. 1895 - 1905
This pair of dainty slippers features skillfully wrought and subtly hued pastel ribbonwork embroidery, nicely complimented by three-dimensional flowers at the throat. A flirtatious note is added by the curvaceous Louis heel and the flesh-baring d’Orsay cut, which was originally popularized as a men’s style by French amateur artist and dandy Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count d’Orsay (1801–1852). The Met
