The ‘Flora’s Secret’ ca. 1790 shoes
You may have guessed from Saturday’s post that I’m working on shoes. It was the first time that I’ve really tried to remake a pair of modern shoes into historical shoes, and it was an interesting process. The shoes started like this: cute, but a bit daft: I wanted them to look like these type of shoes: Mine don’t come as high up in the toe and around the foot, but there are example of shoes from the 1780s & ’90s that are cut lower over the toe and the sides of the foot: I liked the idea of being able to wear the shoes for anything from 1780 to 1800- more versatile. To re-make mine, first I took off the silly trim and bow: Then I cleaned the shoes. The next step was to re-paint the heel, to get rid of the anachronistic metallic teal leather colour. I first painted the heels pale blue, but it turned out too blue: I repainted the heels lavender, which I’m not much happier with. I’ll repaint them …