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Unknown. " There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe " is a popular English language nursery rhyme, with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19132. Debates over its meaning and origin have largely centered on attempts to match the old woman with historical female figures who have had large families, although King George II (1683–1760) has also ...
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.81.71.1a-b. Shoe buckles are fashion accessories worn by men and women from the mid-17th century through the 18th century to the 19th century. Shoe buckles were made of a variety of materials including brass, steel, silver or silver gilt, and buckles for formal wear were set with diamonds, quartz or imitation ...
The Haines Shoe House is a shoe-shaped house in Hellam Township, Pennsylvania, about two miles west of the borough of Hallam, on Shoe House Road near the Lincoln Highway. The house is 25 feet (7.6 m) high, 17 feet (5.2 m) wide, and 48 feet (15 m) long, and is visible from US Route 30 .
A chopine is a type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Chopines were originally used as a patten, clog, or overshoe to protect shoes and dresses from mud and street soil. In Venice both courtesans and patrician women frequently wore chopines c.1400 to 1700. Besides practical uses, the height of the ...
Design. The shoes are cone or sheath-shaped, intended to resemble a lotus bud. [1] The size of lotus shoes was between 5.25 and 5.5 inches in length and 1.75-2 inches in width. [2] Until the early 1900s, lotus shoes were primarily made in the home by the women who wore them. [2] They were delicately constructed from cotton or silk, and small ...
The New Woman was the more disconcerting of the two images at the time as she was seen as an example of change and disruption within the old patterns of social order, asking for the right to equal educational and work opportunities as well as progressive reform, sexual freedom and suffrage. Whilst the Gibson Girl took on many characteristics of ...
Shoemaking is the process of making footwear. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cordwainers (sometimes misidentified as cobblers, who repair shoes rather than make them [citation needed]). In the 18th century, dozens or even hundreds [1] of masters, journeymen, and apprentices (both men and ...