100 Shoes - The Costume Institute The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 232 in Publisher: Yale University Press In a illiant follow-up to 100 Dresses. published in 2010. the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum once again opens the vaults. of its heralded permanent collection to introduce readers to the rich diversity of shoes within its holdings. A hundred pairs of shoes. from the 16th to the 21st century. paint a vivid picture of how styles have changed-sometimes radically-over the years. They also reveal how some trends have reappeared throughout the ages. For instance. platform shoes were worn by fashionable Venetian women from the 15th to the 17th century and by Manchu Chinese women in the 1800s. In the late 1930s. Salvatore Ferragamo introduced a modern version of the platform shoe. and updated versions appeared in the 1970s and 1990s. Beautifully designed and produced.