Shoes [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… Image ‘Pair of woman’s shoes with straps for shoe buckles’, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, M.81.71.4a-b, c. 1770. Abstract The study of footwear … interactions in both respects. We will here consider the shoe as a worn material artefact that had a close relationship with the body, and which had an important role to play in social and gender relations. Shoes are items of dress, so they … central to the dress ensemble for both men and women in the eighteenth century. Patrician men wore heeled, buckled shoes with stockings and breeches, as part of the ‘three piece suit’ that came to be regarded as the uniform of the English …
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