Shoes : a history from sandals to sneakers

Name/Title

Shoes : a history from sandals to sneakers

Entry/Object ID

GT2130.R54

Description

Features everything you want to know about shoes, including the tiny crushing shoes of China, the infamous chopine with its 23-inch heel, how dandies made men's shoes beautiful in the eighteenth century, and how the powers of conservatism made them dull again, war and the Wellington boot, the codes of the "gay shoe," and more.

Collection

Titi Halle/Cora Ginsburg LLC Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

shoes, shoes--history, titi halle/cora ginsburg llc collection

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Book

Book Details

Author

Giorgio Riello, Peter McNei

Publisher

Berg

Place Published

City

New York, NY

Date Published

2006

Call No.

GT2130.R54

ISBN

1845204433, 9781845204433

LCCN

2006017666

Notes

Length: 439