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A Beatle boot or Cuban boot [1] is a style of boot that has been worn since the late 1950s but made popular by the English rock group the Beatles in the 1960s. The boots are a variant of the Chelsea boot: they are tight-fitting, Cuban-heeled, ankle-high boots with a sharp pointed toe. The style can feature either elastic or zipped sides. [2 ...
Beatle boots originated at Anello & Davide in the early 1960s. When The Beatles first saw Chelsea boots with Cuban heels worn by a London band playing in Hamburg they were told where they were purchased from. They visited and purchased their own and they later commissioned their own variation. [3] This modified version of a Chelsea boot is now ...
The male shoes were lace-up Oxford style with a low heel and an exaggerated pointed toe. A Chelsea boot style (elastic-sided with a two-inch—later as much as two-and-one-half-inch—Cuban heels) was notably worn by the Beatles but although it had a pointed toe, was not considered to be a winklepicker. Winklepicker shoes were also worn by ...
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By the mid-1960s, Stephen owned fifteen shops on Carnaby Street [25] and clothes from these stores were being worn publicly by the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Cliff Richard, Sean Connery and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon. In 1964, Stephen claimed he "dressed about 90 percent of England's popstars". [26]
The Beatles business took a lease on 94 Baker Street, a Georgian townhouse dating from 1795, and the ground floor was proposed for the Apple shop despite the location being remote from the centres of fashion and design of 1960s London.
They will be sold by Sotheby’s with an estimate of £10,000 to £15,000.