Carmen Miranda and her platform shoe collection, 1944
Carmen Miranda
16th century Milanese chopines
(via On a Pedestal: From Renaissance Chopines to Baroque Heels (6) - People’s Daily Online)
Reproduction of Salvatore Ferragamo’s “Rainbow” platforms, made for Judy Garland in 1938.
Some farm children from Mashiko, visiting Sakuma’s establishment. Note the chapped cheeks of the girls— resulting from living in virtually unheated houses in the winter—especially in the war and Occupation period, before economic recovery. The children are wearing geta—wooden clogs—because of the mud.
J.W. Bennett, 1949
Tisch mit Szenen zu den sieben Todsünden und den letzten vier Dingen
Ancient Greek actor, possibly wearing kothorni.
