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Favorite artists: Anthony van Dyck, Giovanni Boldini, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Lawrence
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I know this is a blog about western fashion but seriously these are the craziest lotus shoes I’ve ever seen and I had to share them. They HAD to have been for sitting around. I refuse to believe that anyone (even with bound feet) could walk in them.
1850’s-90’s China
Buy them for $999 here.
Boots by PH Herher - Paris, ca 1859-63 France, Oakland Museum of California
Boots, ca 1860, Oakland Museum of California
Notice the leather stripes above the toe cap on the one boot. They’re supposed to be on the other as well but must have fallen off.
Theatrical boots, ca 1870, Oakland Museum of California
Evening ensemble by Worth, 1865-70
Designs by Worth, ca 1868
Mrs Ellinor Guthrie by Frederic Leighton, ca 1865 UK, Yale Centre for British Art
Walking dress for women and children, 1869 England, The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine
Loving Flower Care by Victor Gilbert, date missing (ca 1867?) France
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La Demoiselle by Eva Gonzalès, 1865-70
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