The Ornamented Being
Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify
Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness
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1720s-1730s
The V&A says: Pattens were worn to lift the shoe out of the dirt and damp. Being somewhat heavy and clumsy, they were mainly used by working-class or country women.
These pattens, however, have pointed toes to fit a fashionable woman’s shoe and a depression at the back where a small heel could sit. The shoe would have been fastened into the patten by means of ribbon-laced latchets. All this, and the fact that the latchets are covered in velvet, suggests that the patterns were worn by someone of considerable wealth.
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You know the drill: go get in my closet.
- 17th century
- costume
- costume
- fashion
- fashion
- geeeez I need to go away and stop making lame jokes on tumblr
- go get in my closet
- hello gorgeousness
- history
- history
- if it ain't baroque don't fix it
- stupid blackadder jokes that no one ever gets
- stupid percy I wish you came back for season three
- shoes
- heels
- textile
- embroidery
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Epoque Louis XV – Petits souliers à talon – Velours miniature. Soie. Talon en chevreau blanc – Photo – Musée des Tissus de Lyon – Pierre Verrier
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Shoes: probably worn by Lady Mary Stanhope (1660)
Women’s Velvet Shoes
Made of blue velvet and embroidered with silver gilt thread, these shoes must have been worn for a special occasion. The latchets would have tied across the tongue with a decorative ribbon possibly gold in colour.Story:
Could these shoes have been worn during the celebrations, which took place after the Restoration of Charles II in 1660?Lady Mary was the wife of Sir John Stanhope of Elvaston Castle in Derbyshire. After Sir John’s death in 1638 she married Sir John Gell. She seems to have kept her links with the Stanhope family after she married again.
Rights info: Non commercial use accepted. Please credit to “Northampton Museums & Art Gallery”. Please contact Northampton Museums Service if you wish to use this image commercially.
Location of collection: Northampton Museum & Art Gallery www.northampton.gov.uk/museums
Part of: Northampton Shoe Collection
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Skipping ahead of ourselves into the early 19th century.
c. 1914-19
The Met says: Pietro Yantorny (1874-1936), the self-proclaimed “most expensive shoemaker in the world”, was a consummate craftsman utterly devoted to the art of shoemaking. Yantorny sought to create the most perfectly crafted shoes possible for a select and exclusive clientele of the most perfectly dressed people. This pair of mules was made for Rita de Acosta Lydig (1880-1927), an avid collector of lace and antique textiles. Lydig dressed in a strongly personal style, often displaying Orientalist tastes in her attire. These mules are inspired by the Turkish babouche; the consequent allusion to the harem was especially appropriate to a boudoir slipper, although it is possible that Lydig wore them with one of her many harem dresses. The fabric is identical to that used in Near Eastern footwear, and was probably either collected by Lydig or embroidered to order.
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