Shoes
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Stepping into History
Join me for a slightly self-indulgent post about shoes from history, Fragonard’s “The Swing”, Madame de Pompadour and fashionable footwear at eighteenth-century Versailles… read more
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An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahnik at The Wallace Collection
I realised a couple of weeks ago that, even though I’ve spent plenty of time visiting galleries and museums in London, that I’d never actually been to the Wallace Collection. I have been meaning to go for ages, and decided that, last weekend, I had a free morning in London and it was time to read more
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Pretending to be Cinderella in Toronto: the Bata Shoe Museum
English shoes, 1760s, silk from early seventeenth century (The Gold Standard exhibition) Aside from art, country houses and Jane Austen, one of my biggest passions is shoes. I’ve loved shoes since I was very small, the more outlandish and brightly coloured the better, and relished the day that my feet stayed the same size so read more
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Dr. Lizzie Rogers 