Date and Label help on these Cool Shoes with odd shaped heels

Bombshell*Frocks

Bombshell*Frocks

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I already have them listed but am now biting my fingernails because I may have them listed in the wrong category but since there are no bids I can change it and or add information if needed.

I have searched Betrucci Original until I was blue in the face and found nothing on that name.

I'm really confused on the date, are they 40's? 50's or 70's?

Could that spongy feeling black stuff on the bottom sole and back of the heels be cork? I saw a pair of Mulitcolored Ferragamo Cork Wedge Shaped Platforms on a museum site and the close up of the colored cork looks like the material on these shoes but these shoes say Air Foam on the label...argggg...

The plastic on the vamp is hard but flexible.
This is the best way I can describe the layers on these shoes..
Insole: Paper
Next layer:Fabric
Next layer: Suede
Next layer: Thin Cork/Foam?
Next layer: Wood
Outsole and back of heel: Cork/Foam?

Warning, Lot's of pictures!

Thanks in advance for any help, I'd sincerely appreciate it.

Tori


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Funky!!! The label does look vintage but that foam makes me think they're modern. (It doesn't look like cork to me but you've got me curious too find out either way.) I guess that's not much help!! I'm sure someone with shoe-smarts and dating-smarts will come along to help!!
 
Hi Tori,

Hmm...the label does look "older" to me.
Jonathan will probably know for sure, though.

Those are most definitely teh ultimate shoes though!!


Chris
 
Thanks for your thoughts and a big hello, I've missed this place very much.

Yes, it's amazing that the flowers are still on, the flower is glued very firmly on top of a patch of black suede that is stapeled onto the plastic.

There is no way these shoes are older than 70's, no way.
The construction is very solid and top quality down to the varnished wood which by the way I forgot to mention in the listing.
 
Hi Tori!!! :hiya:

Gosh... those really are a puzzler! Some parts say 40's or 50's... and some parts say 70's.
The flower & maker's mark do look earlier... and the rest COULD fall in line with that.
But I can see how 70's could be appropriate... especially how the platform lifts up at the toe. Don't ask me why that says 70's to me! I'm no shoe expert by a long shot!
I'd have to say that, were they mine, I'd have guessed 50's and called it a day - wrong or not! LOL!

Anyway... maybe someone with more insight will come along... but I had to at least pop in and give my 1½cents worth!

Good ta see you!
 
They are weird ones... I am thinking more 70s than 90s because of the style of printing on the label and a pink rose isn't very Gothy 90s. Also, a lot of these wood platform shoes were Italian in the 70s, whereas most of the 90s platforms were made in China. Also, the wide open toe area is more typical of the 70s, open toes were less popular in the 90s unless they were sandal styles. Yes, I have talked myself into the 1970s.
 
Heh... Jonathan! Your thought pattern cracks me up!

70's makes sense... especially Italian. I knew something else was bugging me about the earlier age guesses... the wide open toe.

Makes total sense...

regardless.. they're aweome! :USETHUMBUP:
 
Sue, Christine, it sure is nice to be here and I truly have missed you'll. :wub:

Yay! Shoe Guru has spoken!! Thanks Jonathan....:kiss:
I never even thought they could be 90's, but 70's seems more realistic than 40's...
To me the label looked 40's but the wider open toe was throwing me towards the 70's.....Also now the more I think about it, wouldn't the flower have been cloth if they were 40's?...

Anyway, I have a listing to revise....

Thanks again!

Tori
 
Oh yes....90s was a big revival of platform shoes...

I know because I was definitely sucked into the revival..
It was really cool to be 5;3" - 5' 6" rather than my genetic 5' 0"

I had a lot of different pairs...

But when the red flocked skyhigh platform sandals came to Kmart
I am sure the hipsters thought it was "all over".
Of course I had a pair of those too LOL.
 
Hi Linda!! :roll::hiya:

Yeah but those 90's platforms were much different than the platforms we remember, the 90's heels were thicker, taller, chunkier and uglier.

AND.....K-Mart and Wally World Shoes = as bad as Pay-Less Shoes. Hehehe
 
Well..I have an excuse. I was young and inexperienced. And only ONE pair was from the K.

There was this pair of "Real" platform shoes at a shop I used to go by and they were $300. Being young and broke, I could only afford to get fingerprints on the glass :(
 
:hysterical::hysterical:
And probably still priced at $300.00 in that shop and truthfully Chris if I was looking in the window at them, well my fingerprints would be there as well..:BAGUSE:
 
Tori!

I have nothing to add about the shoes (obviously) but it is SO good to see you it has made my day! I've missed you lots :love008:

Please don't be a stranger!

Carolyn
 
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