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100 1 _aGreig, T. Watson
_q(Thomas Watson),
_d1837-1912
245 1 0 _aLadies' old-fashioned shoes
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-24
508 _aMairi, Matthew Everett, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _aLadies' old-fashioned shoes by T. Watson Greig is an illustrated antiquarian monograph produced in the late 19th century (Victorian era). The book surveys historical women’s footwear, pairing plates with concise descriptions to document materials, construction, provenance, and changing fashion. It opens with a preface about preserving fragile examples, then presents eleven plates that span from a plain black satin shoe attributed to Mary Queen of Scots to richly worked silk, brocade, kid, and cloth-of-gold shoes linked to named wearers (including figures from the reigns of Charles II and Queen Anne) and several unknowns; features noted include diamond or steel buckles, gimp trimming, heart-shaped heels, and heavily stuffed pointed toes of extravagant length. The appendix adds brief remarks on ladies’ self-made shoes and a small Scottish museum inventory, and reprints R. Heath’s expansive essay tracing European footwear from the Valois through the First Empire—high heels, peaked and duck-billed toes, Regency pegs—set against global analogues from India, Persia, China, Albania, Lapland, and North Africa, plus sections on sabots, pattens (including towering Venetian chopines of Eastern origin), sandals ancient and ecclesiastical, moccasins, and the symbolism and utility behind shape and height. A final note mentions Westminster Abbey effigies and pictorial evidence (with Evelyn’s diary) to corroborate period styles. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cEdinburgh: David Douglas, 1885
653 _aWomen's shoes -- History
653 _aWomen's shoes -- History -- Pictorial works
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/Ladiesoldfashio00Grei/page/n7/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77314
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