30's 40's straw platform sandals with embroidered indian sacrifice/burial scene??

Lol! I can't stop this inappropriate laughter.

 

Well, I wouldn't feel too bad...as the saying goes; tragedy+time=comedy

Not true is all cases of course, but there is a lot of "Donner Party" jokes out there!

 

True Brenda. I wasn't sure what 'Donner' jokes meant I'll admit, and had to google. ;)

 

I love those shoes(so bizarre!) and this thread! too funny

 

I see these being worn as revenge shoes, worn by a woman whose former lover had, in a sense, torn her heart out.

Veeeeeeeery interesting. And Laura I like your phrase "doobied up".

B

 

I could use some doobying up on peyote about now, and then being slaughtered.... But love those shoes!

What size are they, may I ask?

 

minute I think is the answer, 9 1/4" long 2 3/4" wide both inside.

 

Oh, dang it all! They would fit me length-wise, but not width wise.... I have small feet, and they used to be narrow, but a surgery on my right foot has made the front of my foot too wide for a narrow width--which yours are. I think about 2 7/8" to 3" is a medium width in that length....

 

they probably would fit you, you know...lucky thing - that width was the hard insole (or platform width, in the pictures), the straw upper is quite a bit wider than that either side but I do tend to err on the safe side with measurements as you have to consider depth as well as width as I'm sure you know. I wasn't actually considering them for sale to wear as although they look fab in those photos they need a complete resole & re-heel and I thought there wasn't much point if they were going to be for display only!

I don't know where to put these up now, etsy or ebay I've had quite a few interested people.

 

OK this is funny in that odd sort of way. Thursday night I was channel surfing and landed on Turner Classic Movies

They were running the movie Kings of the Sun
The first scene was a sacrifice at the Mayan temple at Chichen Itza
I didnt watch the whole movie as it was pretty lame.

But then Friday I was surfing again and came across this movie
Apocalypto
The scene I came in on was the Mayan sacrifice scene in which the hero is spared due to a solar eclipse as they were about to plunge the sacred knife (bad juju!)
Now this was a good movie, very fast paced and well done!

I was thinking of these shoes, this post...and how odd to encounter this subject matter in two movies in two days.

 

lol I skipped Apocalypto when it came out in the cinemas because it looked like a truly naff man film, but when I watched it on Tv not long ago, thought it was brill, though it is quite gory, I liked the way it had very little talking and relied on good filming.

 

Fabulous movie Apocalypto.

If any of you ever pick up the CD, it includes a separate behind-the-scenes film which discusses the textiles and how they were dyed and how they kept to traditional methods, etc. along with other interesting costuming information.