amylsacks' photos with the keyword: shoe

"At Air Step Division we bring the Axis-- to heel !!" (Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.) From the July 31st issue of Life magazine.

It's Rooster v. Oyster! Also, that poor "delineator" model looks like a weird novelty mug, if you squint. From the September issue of Harper's magazine.

The styles you'll lose your head over!! (Sorry.) From the May issue of Parents magazine.

These guys both walk like their deodorant hasn't dried yet. From the May 9th issue of The New Yorker .

Mr. Little better snap out of his urban daydream fast! Or else Fashion and the Squire Twins are gonna' crush him into hamburger. o_0 From the May issue of Esquire Magazine .

Ad at left: Parents magazine, September 1949. Ad at upper right: Good Housekeeping magazine, c1955. Ad at lower right: Life magazine, August 17th, 1944. Slightly enlarged to show detail. (I wonder if the giant, creepy-looking bird mascot is made out of leather, too.)

The awkward cropping at left is them, not me I swear! From the October 14th issue of The New Yorker .

Those shoe boxes Young Miss America 2 is standing on are awfully sturdy. Maybe they're made of cement. From the March issue of Family Circle magazine.

Why do people go on as if the Fifties were some kind of fantastic Golden Age for the "larger woman"? Okay, so nobody expected her to spend twenty hours a week at the gym while playing wife, Mom, and wage slave (and perpetually dieting, of course). But you know that underneath that cute little outfit, she's still squeezed tight as a drum in some fugly girdle. Even if she's yet to reach the ancient age of thirty. From the March issue of Family Circle magazine.

To me, if it has a high heel of any kind, it's not a "walking" shoe, except in the ceremonial sense. From the March issue of Family Circle magazine.

Leather Tinkerbell left the Leather Lost Boys home alone, and frankly I don't think it was a good idea. From the March 31st issue of The New Yorker.

Wide lapels were absolutely a Thirties thing. The other stuff here? I'm not so sure. From September's issue of Sports Illustrated. (probably)

If your budget doesn't allow for artificial birds on your hat, don't worry! Just put some bits of shrubbery up there, and real ones will show up in good time!

The giant shoe-dirigible came right at her. It was indeed helmed by the monstrous two-headed Dog Boy, as in the legends told by the elder secretaries around the lunch table. Yet Gail paid the grinning beast no mind. "Mr. Jones needs those figures by 3 PM!" she thought. "I musn't let him down!"

"A joyful dance..." Or what happens when you drop an ice cube down the back of your cheating spouse at the post-rodeo line dance. From The Western Horseman magazine.

I just go ahead and paint my whole body red before getting dressed. That way the gray and brown really stand out. From the September issue of Family Circle.

"...They say that Venus de Milo Was noted for her charms. Strictly between us I'm much finer than Venus And what's more, I've got arms..."

Until today, I had no idea what passementerie meant. So yay, Me! From the September issue of Harper's Bazaar.