1930s Shoe Fashions - Archive Film
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Vintage Shoe Fashion Film from the 1934.
The 1930's, despite the Depression - brought an amazing variety of beautiful shoe styles to women.Gone were the simple ankle straps of the 1920's Flapper and in came the high heel. This unique archive film from Glamourdaze showcases the 'latest' women's shoe fashions of 1934
Popular shoes included patent leather pumps, slip-on, lace-ups, buckles, two tone and spectator designs. With outdoor fashions becoming more and more popular for in the leisure woman, you saw more sandals - not just on the beach but the high heeled version for evening wear too.
Fashionable colors included white, black, two tone white and black, brown and wine shades.
The standard evening shoe to wear with your dress included asymmetrical trimmed court shoes, sling backs and of course - peep toes.
With skirt hems getting lower during the 1930's, womens shoes became all the more exotic with decorations being the order of the day [ it was the Art Deco era after all ! ]
Cutouts were seen on pumps and the standard Oxford shoe became much more decorated with perforated hole designs and so on.
This vintage film showcases women's shoes for street wear, rainy days to evening sandals and heels. Gorgeous.
original footage courtesy of Internet Archive.[ archive.org/ ]