Anyone up on their DeLiso shoe history? Help please!

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I've looked and looked and I can't seem to find any history on DeLiso. I know they used to be Palter DeLiso.. and also DeLiso Debs... but mine are just DeLiso.

My first guess is 60's... but I think they could be 80's, too.. so I thought I'd pitch it to you guys and see what you think.

Sorry for all the questions today... I'm really churning out my website & will show you the results soon! Promise!

More pictures here!

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I sure appreciate the help (especially ever diligent Chris!:wub: )

Kristine
 
First of all, if they are marked a "B" instead of medium ("M"), then they are older. Nice shoes. DeLiso has been in business for quite awhile. I have no clue but am bumping this up for you. :bouncy:
 
Thanks Linda!

I had something niggling around in my head about "B" vs "M".. but I have so much HTML in there that my grey matter is a little too crowded to bring up useful facts like that :-)

The printing makes me think it can't be earlier than 60's, for some reason... maybe my first inclination was right?

Anyone know when the B to M switch took place? Jonathan?
 
i don't know. some makers still use "B", mostly orthopedic or specialty shoes. at least i have seen them in stores.

i have no clue on the age of those...will have to do some looking around. Jonathan would know for sure though
 
I don't know the history of Deliso. THey were certainly around in the 1950s to the 1970s, but other than that I don't know. The alphabetic system for widths is still around, ranging from AAAA, AAA, AA, A, B, C, D, E, EE, EEE, and EEEE ranging from narrowest to widest. I am not sure exactly when the N, M, and W for narrow, medium and wide came in but it was certainly not being used in the 1950s and was definately around by the 1980s, so somewhere in the 1960s or 1970s it was introduced -- I suspect it was in the 1970s but I don't know. I believe it is only American footwear that uses that system, although shoes made in other countries for import might also use that marking for shoes sold in the U.S. These shoes look late 1950s to me, c. 1956/57.
 
"""I am not sure exactly when the N, M, and W for narrow, medium and wide """

and it was introduced because they thought people were slow and the width had to be the first letter of the word for folks to comprehend :)

i wonder if there is a correlation between foot maladies and the deletion of all those widths in most price ranges of shoes.
 
DeLiso Debs were around before the 60s. I sold them 1946-1950 and I think they had been around quite a while then. At the time, they were considered quite fashionable, at least in the Midwest.
 
I found a bit more information about the company over the last 11 years... Palter Deliso was formed in 1927 by Daniel Palter and James Deliso. They received a Neiman Marcus award in 1938 for introducing the open-toe sling-back pump. Deliso Debs was a line created for their younger clients. I have seen advertising for it from 1951, but meadi8r says they remember them from 1946, which makes sense - that whole 'teenager', 'junior miss', 'collegiate' market explodes after the war.
 
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