There is something odd about those shoes... Ferragamo didn't always make pretty shoes, a lot of his shoes are heavy and weird like these ones, they just don't get referred to in shoe histories. They look wartime-ish. The U.S. was buying shoes from Ferragamo right into 1941 and again, starting in 1944 after Italy capitulated, so there is really only a couple of years that Ferragamo shoes aren't available this side of the Atlantic. However, the box the shoes came in look like the 1950s box I have with some of my Ferragamos. The upturned toe is something Ferragamo was doing as early as 1937 but he revived it over and over again, so that doesn't help. The heel shape looks early 50s but the rest of the shoe is so heavy looking and black suede is more typical of the late 1940s and early 1950s, especially that heavier suede. Fine kid suedes are more typical of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The label will help, although I don't know when they switched over exactly. Without seeing the label or knowing who made them I would have said wartime or very shortly thereafter, but they could be as late as the mid 1950s. I don't think they date past 1956ish though as they are too heavy and clunky for that period.
