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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
The Dangers of Fringed Gloves & Gew Gaws, The Tatler, 1709-10
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Every generation has its over the top luxuries -- the highly sought after equipage of the fashionable elite. In the 18 th century, it migh...
Saturday, February 21, 2015
A Personal Touch: Wedding Shoes of A New England Groom, c. 1819
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These low-heeled men’s shoes were likely made in Haverhill, Massachusetts by the wearer, Leonard Phillips, in the early years of the 1...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
"A Great Storm of Snow" in Samuel Lane's New Hampshire, 1748
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Transcribed from Lane almanac, February 1748 Courtesy, New Hampshire Historical Society Cordwaining or shoe making in eighteenth-centur...
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Friday, January 23, 2015
A Frosty, Fashionable January, circa 1790s
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Winterthur Museum Object Number: 1959.0756 A I recently came across this image of “January” in the Winterthur Museum Collection (...
Sunday, January 18, 2015
If These Shoes Could Talk….New England Shoe Stories, 1750-1850
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I greet you with excitement on this wintery morning: Presenting the invitation for "Cosmopolitan Consumption: New England Shoe S...
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