Mary jane (shoe)
The Mary Jane is a shoe model that has been around since the 1920s and is worn by children and women. Mary Janes, of which there are now numerous variants, are clasp shoes in their classic form: black patent leather shoes with flat soles and flat heels that have a wide rounded toe at the front. An instep clasp that can be closed at the side runs over the instep of the foot. Nowadays, shoes with instep braces are generally referred to as Mary Janes, regardless of the shape of the heel or cap.
history
This shoe model was named after a comic figure, the sister of the main character in the American comic Buster Brown by Richard Felton Outcault . The shoe model achieved a high level of awareness in the 1960s when the Twiggy Mary Janes model . The shoes are an important part of the style in certain directions of Lolita fashion .
literature
- Linda O'Keeffe: Shoes . Könemann Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8331-1098-8 .
- Angela Pattison, Nigel Cawthorne: Shoes. Fashions & designs in the 20th century . Bassermann, Niedernhausen, 1998, 160 pages, ISBN 3-8094-0655-4 .
- Frédérique Veysset, Isabelle Thomas, Caroline Levesque: Shoes: the ultimate style guide , Prestel, Munich 2015 (original title So Shoes ! , translated from the French by Dorothee Domingos). ISBN 978-3-7913-8136-7 .