D'antonio shoes date?

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stainedglass

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Hello, I found quite a few of these deadstock shoes in goodwill earlier and couldn't tell a date. I assumed they were 90's but I think the style looks older than that. Just want to make sure the era these are from. Any info would help. Thank you!
Edit: When looking for other D'antonio shoes I'm finding that almost every pair online is from the 70's. Could these possibly be from the 70's?
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Looks like lurex fabric and I would have said 90s/2000s based on what I purchased around then, particularly the curved shape of the straps which I have on a pair of shoes around somewhere. It's a shame you didn't get a picture of the buckle or soles. I don't suppose you remember if they had material content stickers on the bottom?
Is it not possible the brand was revived later Jonathan? The logo doesn't fit for 70's to me, it's too small (and not gold or silver in a huge font!) If I had time I'd look up the trademark.
 
Pinkcoke said:
Looks like lurex fabric and I would have said 90s/2000s based on what I purchased around then, particularly the curved shape of the straps which I have on a pair of shoes around somewhere. It's a shame you didn't get a picture of the buckle or soles. I don't suppose you remember if they had material content stickers on the bottom?
Is it not possible the brand was revived later Jonathan? The logo doesn't fit for 70's to me, it's too small (and not gold or silver in a huge font!) If I had time I'd look up the trademark.
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The trademark expired in 1996.
 
Pinkcoke said:
Looks like lurex fabric and I would have said 90s/2000s based on what I purchased around then, particularly the curved shape of the straps which I have on a pair of shoes around somewhere. It's a shame you didn't get a picture of the buckle or soles. I don't suppose you remember if they had material content stickers on the bottom?
Is it not possible the brand was revived later Jonathan? The logo doesn't fit for 70's to me, it's too small (and not gold or silver in a huge font!) If I had time I'd look up the trademark.
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No I don't recall what material they were :/ I wish I would've taken a picture of the soles. They had a clear sticker with gold writing for the size, was this common pre-90's?
 
If the trademark expired in 1996 then perhaps these are 90s, as the platform revival had begun by then. I thought D'Antonio was gone already but they might have limped along into the mid 90s. The D'Antonio label in the sock is the same label they had in the 1950s/60s, but the clear sticker with the gold writing sounds 90s, and Melanie is right, they look like a lurex fabric, which is a 90s feature. I remember thinking at the time that the platform shoes that were first being made when the fashion came back in the mid 90s were nearly perfect reproductions of 1970s styles and that some day they would confuse collectors... I was right!
 
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