Cream silk satin boots cut with multiple latchets creating a ladder effect, yellow silk bow on toe and yellow silk cord laced through eyelet in each latchet to tie at the top. Blue silk lining to each latchet
Cream silk satin boots cut with multiple latchets creating a ladder effect, yellow silk bow on toe and yellow silk cord laced through eyelet in each latchet to tie at the top. Blue silk lining to each latchet (en)
Label for the exhibition Shoes: Pleasure and Pain
Show a Bit of Leg
From the 1860s, shorter skirts led to a greater emphasis on stockings and shoes. The barette, or sandal-boots, as seen here, daringly revealed coloured stockings through the bands or cut-outs on the leg and instep. This was not always approved of. The contemporary boots create the same effect, framing the flesh of the leg. They have the addition of a killersharp heel.
Barette boots
1865–75
England
Silk satin, linen and leather
Given by Messrs Harrods Ltd
V&A: T.551&A-1913 [2015-2016] (en)
Evening boots, white silk satin with yellow silk trimming (en)
Cream silk satin boots cut with multiple latchets creating a ladder effect, yellow silk bow on toe and yellow silk cord laced through eyelet in each latchet to tie at the top. Blue silk lining to each latchet (en)
Label for the exhibition Shoes: Pleasure and Pain
Show a Bit of Leg
From the 1860s, shorter skirts led to a greater emphasis on stockings and shoes. The barette, or sandal-boots, as seen here, daringly revealed coloured stockings through the bands or cut-outs on the leg and instep. This was not always approved of. The contemporary boots create the same effect, framing the flesh of the leg. They have the addition of a killersharp heel.
Barette boots
1865–75
England
Silk satin, linen and leather
Given by Messrs Harrods Ltd
V&A: T.551&A-1913 [2015-2016] (en)
Evening boots, white silk satin with yellow silk trimming (en)