Shoes

Unknown

ca. 1925 · silk · Costume Institute

An interesting confluence of a child's Mary Jane and a women's T-strap is evident in this pair of girl's shoes. The particular design of the T-strap, employing a large topstitched flaring tab which is cut to extend as narrow curved bands down to the sole, was a feature of women's styles of the mid-1920s. The basic shape, however, is a direct expression of the classic girl's Mary Jane style with its wide round toe, flat heel, and buttoned instep strap.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1925

Medium

silk

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 Colonel and Mrs. Horace Figuers, 1973