Buckles [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… Image ‘Shoe buckles’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 83.1.102, late 18th century. Abstract Buckles were used to fasten shoes in the eighteenth century, as well as other articles of clothing such as breeches and hats. Because they were small, metallic and detachable, they offered … quickly went out of fashion in the 1790s, and epitomise many features of the intervening period. They were an essential part of fashionable dress for both men and women, but their significance for eighteenth-century sociability goes deeper …
Consumption | Dance | Shoes
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