YAY!!! WE SURVIVED, and Jorge the Intern became Jorge the Model / Convict but it was a great time!!! shoutouts to the coolest people that came down for us: Geoff, Brandon, Tracy, and Matt!! lots of good memories

SHOEBIZ TRIVIA

Which decade of the 20th century was dominated by enormous platform shoes? The 1970s. Garish colours and glitter also made their presence strongly felt by the middle of the 1970s. Some men enjoyed the flamboyance just as much as the women, and quite a few people took their inspiration from the “Glam Rock” pop stars of the day.

What was an important innovation to the shoe fashion world in 1660? The buckle being used to fasten a shoe. Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary on the 22nd January, 1660, “This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes.” In the 17th century men wore shoes and mules with a square toe, often blocked and domed. Around about the same time women decided that a pointed toe was more elegant.

By the end of the 1760s thick heels began to thin down but became not very strong and the top became wider and more wedge-like. Which was the correct name for this new type of heel? The Italian Heel. Again soon after the “Italian” heel fashions for women’s shoes began to change. Towards the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century women’s shoes became lower and lower cut, and heels become lower until they disappear altogether for a while.

What was the name given to the military sandal used by the Romans? Caliga. The caliga exposed the toes and had a lattice-patterned upper, front lacing and a heavily nailed sole. The sole consisted of three or four layers of vegetable tanned cattle hide. Other styles included the “calceus” and the “gallica”, both with a closed toe – a style more suited to service in northern climates such as in Britain.

What was the name given to shoes with a long pointed toe, fashionable amongst teenagers in the late 1950s and early 1960s? Winklepickers. The reference is to the pin needed to extract winkles from their shells in order to eat them. The name, probably first used as a joke, quickly passed into advertising and gained a degree of respectablity as a real term. It is first recorded in the written language in the “Spectator” magazine of 1960.

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