Mule
Category
Costume
Date
1750
Materials
Leather, Satin, Silver thread
Measurements
165 mm (Length)64 mm (H)3 mm (D)
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348802.1
Summary
Shoe; Mule - One of a pair of female shoes (mules). Made of pink satin with silver metal embroidery over vamp in floral design. Uppers; no quarters, vamp cut to small point, edges terminating at arch; white stitched rand. White heel cover; brown leather sole straights, scored, continues to heel breast, worn. Toe pointed, overhang sole. Pompadour/French heel, covered, top piece leather. Lining; white leather with white leather sock. Welted construction
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection
References
Bradfield, 1968: Nancy Bradfield, Costume in Detail, 1730-1930, Harrop, London, 1968