Fun with Shoes Podcast

Fun with Shoes

 

Welcome to the Fun with Shoes Podcast! Where we discuss the history and stories behind all different kinds of shoes.

In this episode, we will be taking a look at a late 19th-century Red Calfskin Slipper.

Fun with Shoes Episode

More About the Red Calfskin Slipper:

  • This slipper was manufactured by Mott & Baker in St. Louis, Missouri. Mott & Baker was a shoe company that was founded in 1892 when Henry Mott took his company of Motts Big Boot Shoe Store and partnered up with William S. Baker. Mott & Baker would only last until 1895. Baker would take over the company, naming it Baker-Bayles Shoe Company.
  • The dimensions of the shoe are approximately 9-inches in length, 3.5-inches in height with a 2.25-inch heel.
  • The leather used on the shoe is a deep dark red and is brogued in a triangular shape on the toe. The Louis or French heel is made out of laminated leather.

 

Sources

  • Group dressed for wedding? ceremony posed outdoors / Perry, Allegheny, Pa. , None. [Between 1890 and 1930] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/90711996/.
  • https://www.rd.com/true-stories/love/hope-chest/
  • Trowbridge & Niver Co., Copyright Claimant, Geo. R. Lawrence Co, photographer. Boise, Idaho. Boise Idaho United States, ca. 1909. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2007663544/.
  • Before the start at Green River City, Wyoming. Green River Wyoming, 1871. ?. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/00649761/.
  • Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day: Containing Biographies of Prominent Americans Now Living, Noteworthy as Having Achieved Success in Their Chosen Avocations in the Various Civil, Military, Educational, Religious, Industrial, Commercial and Other Lines of Human Effort–men of Thought and Men of Action Who Have Been Effective in the Establishment and Maintenance of Our Commonwealth, Prominent Citizens in All Walks of Life Who Are Really the Founders, Makers and Builders of Our Great Republic as Manifested in Americas Great Institutions of Finance, Commerce and Trade, and Its Unparalleled Progress in Education, Literature, Art, Science, and in the Development of Our Nation in All Lines of Human Endeavor. Chicago, IL: Successful Americans, 1911.