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"My favorite part of almost every decade is talking about the shoes because they're really beautiful and the '50s really started to get glamorous with shoes. So, in the '40s you had had rationing on leather because of the war and in the '50s the evening shoe became really popular and heels were the standard. We've seen in some movies big saddle shoes but really we're talking about women's fashion and not girls' fashion. And so, towards the beginning you might have seen a shoe like this, in the beginning of the '50s. It's an open toe pump and it has a thicker heel, and this is reminiscent of the heels that were popular in '30s and '40s which were chunkier and lower. But you can see it's already starting to get higher. This is about a 3 and a 1/2 inch heel. It also has some detailing on it of the shimmer, which is reminiscent of the make-up that we talked about. You wouldn't wear a shimmer necessarily in a day dress but you could wear it in a shoe. And also, these are in a fairly neutral color. So these would be a really great accent to an outfit. Now towards the later part of the '50s, we get into stiletto heels, which are still really popular today. These are not necessarily a fabric that would have been used then but the style is completely '50s. The heel is actually a four-inch heel, it's a little bit thinner than the other one, it's an open-toed sandal and it's a very small, streamlined shoe. And this is exactly the kind of shoe that one would wear in the '50s. It maybe wouldn't be as shiny, but it would definitely be a nice summer evening shoe. Stiletto heels really came into their own in the '50s and wearing interesting fabrics, and incredibly popular."
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