20s Mary Jane heels: What kind of closure?

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I've been prepping these (probably new old stock) shoes - had to have brittle heel caps replaced - and have been picturing them closing with a ribbon or cord tie. Today it occurred to me that there might have been a flat buttony thing (great technical terms, hmm?).

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They're a little too small to try on a human foot here at Chez MagsRags, but I will say that visually, I can picture a foot inside more easily with the two sides meeting than with them overlapping.
 
It would have been ties made from flat braid in a colour similar to the shoe upper, probably with fringed ends, although they might have had little toggle-like bead aiglets.
 
jonathan to the rescue.

i could see them with flat mop buttony thingies with elastic between the buttons, too. jonathan, did they even make those in the 20s?

i may be making that up in my head, for any era, but at least i'm not the only one who can visualize them!
 
Thank you, Jonathan! I'm glad to know my original instincts were reasonably close to correct. Joan, I have the feeling I've seen something like you're describing, although in my brain, it keeps getting overlapped with those little extender devices to let men have a little more room inside a tight shirt collar.
 
Joan, the only thing I can think of that would be similar would be a button with an elastic loop that would be used as a galosh closure in the 1930s.
 
maybe that's what i'm thinking of, galoshes closures??

or the little extender devices maggie's talking about.

or, you know, maybe it's just the crack. :D
 
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