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- catalog abstract ""From very long pointed toes in the Middle Ages to exotic creations of the 1990s, the story of footwear is a lively and evocative reflection of styles, fashions and moments in history. In Henry VIII's time, for example, exaggerated shapes and wide toes mirrored the aggressive social climate, while engravings of Queen Victoria showed impossibly narrow slippers in pursuit of nineteenth-century ideals of daintiness." "Engravings, paintings and advertisements help to tell the story, and the specially commissioned photography reveals the glorious colours and styles in stunning detail."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11386379.
- catalog contributor b11386380.
- catalog contributor b11386381.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""From very long pointed toes in the Middle Ages to exotic creations of the 1990s, the story of footwear is a lively and evocative reflection of styles, fashions and moments in history. In Henry VIII's time, for example, exaggerated shapes and wide toes mirrored the aggressive social climate, while engravings of Queen Victoria showed impossibly narrow slippers in pursuit of nineteenth-century ideals of daintiness." "Engravings, paintings and advertisements help to tell the story, and the specially commissioned photography reveals the glorious colours and styles in stunning detail."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Medieval gothic and English renaissance -- Ch. 2. Heels, buckles and bows: the seventeenth century -- Ch. 3. Taste and elegance: 1700-1750 -- Ch 4. The revolutionary shoe: 1750-1795 -- Ch. 5. Classicism and romanticism: 1795 to the mid-1830s -- Ch. 6. Shopping for shoes: 1700-1835 -- Ch. 7. Towards the modern age: 1837-1914 -- Ch. 8. Austerity and glamour: 1914-1939 -- Ch. 9. Forty years of innovation: 1939-1979 -- Ch. 10. Shaping the future: 1980-1998 -- Glossary -- Major UK dress collections featuring shoes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-126) and index.".
- catalog extent "128 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Shoes.".
- catalog identifier "1851772855".
- catalog isFormatOf "Shoes.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : V&A,".
- catalog relation "Shoes.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "391.41309 21".
- catalog subject "GT2130 .P73 1999".
- catalog subject "Shoes Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Shoes History.".
- catalog subject "Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogs.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Medieval gothic and English renaissance -- Ch. 2. Heels, buckles and bows: the seventeenth century -- Ch. 3. Taste and elegance: 1700-1750 -- Ch 4. The revolutionary shoe: 1750-1795 -- Ch. 5. Classicism and romanticism: 1795 to the mid-1830s -- Ch. 6. Shopping for shoes: 1700-1835 -- Ch. 7. Towards the modern age: 1837-1914 -- Ch. 8. Austerity and glamour: 1914-1939 -- Ch. 9. Forty years of innovation: 1939-1979 -- Ch. 10. Shaping the future: 1980-1998 -- Glossary -- Major UK dress collections featuring shoes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "Shoes / Lucy Pratt and Linda Woolley ; colour photography by Sara Hodges.".
- catalog type "Catalogs. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".