Category: Shoes

Vintage colour swatch…burgundy beauties

So, I thought I would do something fun and start writing a regular post every 2 weeks that focuses on a particular colour. I will also include pics showing all sorts of vintage fashion items that were produced in varying shades of that colour, hopefully to inspire some new outfit combinations in the future. 🙂

Burgundy. It’s rich, dark, sensual and one of my favourite clothing colours, along with darker greens, browns, rusts, reds, black and navy. I’m not much of ‘bright colour’ girl (much to my father’s disgust…he always comments that I ‘wear too much black’) and I tend to accessorise with brighter pieces or wear a bright shirt with darker skirt/trousers etc. Burgundy usually screams winter and autumn to me but I do have items in cottons and linens in lighter shades and funnily enough; a pair of vintage suede burgundy lace up oxford shoes! Hope you enjoy this collection.

     

      

      

      

  vintage rare 1930s burgundy plume Rag Time swing dancing shoes
    

    

    

 

Modcloth: So many shoes, so little time…

Well, I’m in Argentina right now, so Modcloth shopping is out of the question. Boooo. But you should all go buy some delicious shoes over at Modcloth.com, so that I can live vicariously through you 😉 Send me photos! Here’s a danceable selection….

New Aris Allen oxford wingtips in white

Aris Allen have finally added a new mens shoe to their existing line. As dancers have seen, the white captoe is so very popular with male swing dancers the world over but I know a few guys  who have long wanted to see an all white shoe in a wingtip style  – and now here it is.

You can find them here www.dancestore.com/Aris-Allen-Mens-All-White-Wingtip-Oxford-Swing-Shoes/productinfo/140-WH/

Prada goes 1930s…

I was looking through a bunch of old vintage shoe ads that I have collected over the years and have always wished that a pair of these, my favourite amazingly colourful shoes from the 1930s, would turn up on ebay.  I have seen one or two pairs come up for auction in 12 years on ebay but they are so rare.

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Then I came across these shoes by Prada from their summer collection, looking uncannily like the the shoes from the old Sears ad! They are a lot higher in the heel but definatley have a 1930s influence. Check them out!

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