As a follow up to the latest posts, let's look today at further examples of Italian '40s styles, via three different pairs of shoes. The first pair of shoes was presented in 1939 at the Rassegna dell'Ente Nazionale della Moda (National Fashion Board Exhibition). They featured high architetural sculpted heels and a dynamically shaped band that hugged the ankle in a rather unusual way.
The second example consists in a blue and yellow calf skin sandal with a sole made of cilindrical elements – maybe wooden bobbins – in matching colours. Probably made between 1936 and 1942, the sandals perfectly respected the autarchic regulations controlling consumption habits and promoting self-sufficiency in textile production and fashion design.
This design was reinvented and patented in February 1940 by Salvatore Ferragamo who came up with a similar shoe model but with a sole that featured cilindrical supports in galalith.
The third example – dated from around 1942 (both the second and third sandals in this post are preserved at the International Footwear Museum of Vigevano) – consists instead in an open toe sandal in burnt red chamois leather with a see through-celluloid heel and a practical rubber sole underneath.
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