Lace for Your Shoes: The Impractical Vanity
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Article on the fashion for lace on footwear and at the knee and boot top in 17th-century Europe, covering shoe roses, lace-trimmed boot hose (canions), and shoe-strings, with examples from the courts of Louis XIII and Louis XIV. It then turns to the 1930s, when Nottingham machine-made Leavers net was applied to canvas and sprayed to imitate snakeskin for shoes, citing design registrations from the G.W. Price archive. Illustrated with portraits, engravings, photographs of net samples, and two Binche bobbin lace edgings; includes notes.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1987
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
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