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In reply to the discussion: family inherits a building and discover a 1960s shoe store inside [View all]starroute
(12,977 posts)14. None of those shoes look 1960s
The rainbow colored flat is probably the newest, and that looks like what I was wearing about 1958-59. The black pump above it has an Art Moderne, late 30s-early 40s look to it. And those lace-up hightop men's shoes can't be any later than about 1910.
On edit: I just check around a bit, and those extremely pointy-toed men's shoes were worn into the 1920s. But "by the mid twenties the two rounded out and then took on a sharp, blunt square toe with a bulbous top, and slightly rounded edges." And the hightop boots seem to have been gone by the 1930s, when shoes in general became more casusl. See http://www.vintagedancer.com/1920s/mens-1920s-and-1930s-shoes-styles/
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OP
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snooper2
Nov 2014
#82
It's because Hipsters are almost invariably smug, snobbish, and elitist about it.
Odin2005
Nov 2014
#88
I can just feel and smell what it used to be like to put these on and walk away in them.
NBachers
Nov 2014
#32
I wonder if there is one of those foot x-ray machines were used to love
No Vested Interest
Nov 2014
#42
Style.. Goes Around Comes Around! what a find.. especially for a shoe fetish person!
Cha
Nov 2014
#49
A similar but not so spectacular find in my town not too many years ago. Just a local mom
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Nov 2014
#52
My critics say I should stop posting groaners but I shall not be suede. nt
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Nov 2014
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