Plimsoll
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
cotton, glue, rubber, metal, enamel
Order this imageCollection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748921.2.2
Summary
The proper right shoe of a pair of plimsolls from a cream coloured shoe box by 'FAME'. White canvas topped plimsoll made by 'HOOD MADE IN U . S . OF AMERICA'. The soles are black rubber with a red rubber makers label in the arch area. The tops are white canvas with reinforced heel made of a quarter circle of extra material on each side and a rubber toe. The lace holes have metal white enamelled eyelets and white cotton round laces with metal aglets at the end.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.