Shoes : A Celebration of Pumps, Sandals, Slippers & More

Shoes : Their History in Words and Pictures  Shoes

Shoes : Fashion and Fantasy

John Lilibourne, leader of the "Levelers" wore this type of wide topped boot

Another illustration from The History of the Gentle-Craft, (1676) shows a 17th century shoe-shop in the right corner

St. Crispin fitting a shoe on Princess Ursula, from the frontispiece of The History of the Gentle-Craft (1676)

Lady's Shoe, leather with applied silk braid, English, Reign of Charles II

1 Inch Black Pig Leather Boot

Black Pig Leather Thigh High Boot

Where Will This Shoe Take You? : A Walk Through the History of Footwear

Historical Fashion in Detail: the 17th and 18th Centuries

Early Dance Part 2 (Baroque Dance)

Video: Il Ballarino : The Art of Renaissance Dance

Frenchman's Creek

This shoe with lace trimming was worn by a Miss Langley during the reign of Charles II, made in pale yellow silk it is embroidered with flowers. Drawing from Greig's "Book of Illustrations of Collections of Ladies Old-Fashioned Shoes"

Silk brocade shoe, English, late 17th Century

Shoe covered with Persian brocade, English, c.1700

French military boots of the style worn from the late 17th century to the middle of the 18th century.   From the Army museum in Paris.

Boys shoe from Cornelis de Vos, Flanders, 1585-1651, Portrait of Mathilde Linterman and her Two Children, c.1631-2, Oil on Canvas, William Randolph Hearst Collection.  50.28.3  at LACMA.  

shoe fitting, c.1600

mid 17th Century man in boots

Lady in a shoe shop, 1690's

• 17th Century Shoes and Boots
• 17th & 18th Century Shoes Cooper Hewett
• History of Footwear: Boots of the Seventeenth Century
• Slap sole shoe in white leather with high heel 1660-1670
• 17th Century (Shoes at the Northampton Museum)
• Plimoth Plantation Shoemaker -17th-century shoes