60s or 70s Shoes?

[greatglenvintage]

Would these be 60s or 70s shoes? They look unworn to me. They are by Selby and marked 6.5 AA.

 

[Pinkcoke]

I can see why you dither - there is a point in both decades where the fashionable shoe shape was quite similar - when the toe shape changes from pointed to square toed in the mid 60's and from square toed to almond toe in the 70s. These are c.1966 The key feature is the keyhole/cut out on the vamp which I can't recall seeing in the 70s.

 

[greatglenvintage]

Thank you! Is there a specific time that sizing went from A, AA, etc. to N, M, W, or did it happen gradually?

 

[Pinkcoke]

I have shoes from the 1950s with N/M/W and there are shoes still being made today in England using the american letter width system, so truthfully it never switched. It's just that one is a more simple format with less sizes.