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Toronto - Page 3

The Bata Shoe Museum in  downtown Toronto - Great place!!!

Art Deco style (the hat was made for a woman in Saskatoon)

Some other amazing styles.....

Judy Garland wore these in 1945 in the movie "The Harvey Girls"

 These Halston shoes are from the mid 1980s when Elizabeth Taylor focused on philanthropy

(Mainly supporting the worlds AIDS issue)

Marilyn Monroe wore these in Montreal in 1957

Aboriginal "kurdaitcha" feather shoes, Arunta tribe, Central Desert, Australia. Made of emu feathers, human hair string, these are well described by the pioneering anthropologist Sir Baldwin Spencer in the Guide to the Australian Ethnographical Collection in the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, 1901.

"A Kurdaitcha man is one who has either been formally selected, or goes out on his own initiative, to kill an individual who is accused of having injured someone by magic... Each shoe consists of a pad of emu feathers... the upper part consists of human hair string plaited into a net... It is commonly stated that the object of the shoes is to conceal the track of the wearer, but inasmuch as an overturned stone or a blade of grass pressed down is quite sufficient to reveal to a native not only the fact that someone has been walking, but also the direction in which he has walked, the most that the shoes can do is to prevent it being known exactly who has made the track…” And according to Thomas in The Native Races of the Empire, Natives of Australia, London, 1906, Kurdaitcha shoes were hidden away when not in use..." No woman or child may see them."