Larry Rivers, O'Hara Nude with Boots, 1954, Oil on canvas
97 × 53 in
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Mae West's 'Double Decker' shoes
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Mae West was a small woman. On screen, she looked larger because she wore shoes that made her taller. A feat of foot engineering, each shoe has two layers: white platform shoes with ankle straps bolted on top of a pair of wooden silver pumps.
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The shoes Humphrey Bogart used during scenes with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca in 1942
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Unknown Egyptian or Turkish artisans, Armenian mother-of-pearl-inlaid wooden shoes (qabab), circa 1800
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Sabine Weiss, Shoes, Paris, 1955
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Papaioannou Voula, New Shoes, 1945
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Saul Leiter, Shoes of the shoeshine man, c.1951
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And the masterpiece:
Mahmoud Obaidi (B. 1966, Iraq)
Farewell Kiss, 2012
shoes and glue on canvas, in twenty four parts
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Samuel van Hoogstraten - The Slippers, 1654-62
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World’s Oldest Socks
designed to be worn with sandals, in Egypt, 4th to 5th century
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A striped child’s sock from Egypt - 3rd century CE
(washing machine swallowed the other one)
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(And just because: that’s nalbinding, not knitting. Different technique entirely.)
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Haven't heard of nalbinding before. Looks just like plain knitting. Must check it out.
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Lmao who puts their 3rd century socks in the washer 😂 also the 100 boots pics and the tall sandals??? Flawless
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WOW.
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