Mules

Margaret Clark|Margaret Jerrold, Inc.

ca. 1960 · leather · Costume Institute

In the last few years of the 1950s, women's fashionable shoe design was distinguished by attenuated lines and increasingly pointed and angular shapes. This mule exemplifies the apogee of this trend in about 1960. Its elongated toe, thin sole and heel, and angular cut of the tab all contribute to the extreme effect.

Artist

Margaret Clark|Margaret Jerrold, Inc.

Date

ca. 1960

Medium

leather

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Margaret Jerrold Inc., 1965