Dee Dee Hall
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Can someone help me date these shoes? Kinda lost on year. The font kinda looks newer to me. So I am wondering if they are even vintage.
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Saks Fifth Avenue Shoes
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themerchantsofvintage
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They look 60s to me. Mid to late. Looking forward to what others think.
MyVintageCocktail
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They're cute! I think late 60s, but could be mid. That's just the impression I'm getting from them. Very unscientific.
Dee Dee Hall
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I thought 60’s also but the writing inside shoes seems like more current style? I have a picture here. That last pic that shows the writing good. Is it possibly a 90’s redo from that time? Here on your website it shows the same type of writing and says’ the 90’s. So I’m a little confused. It’s 60’s style but writing says’ 90’s if that is correct?
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themerchantsofvintage
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Definitely 60s. Another clue is the written size and codes on the inside, the toe tap on the bottom sole.
Dee Dee Hall
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Ok, thank you so much. For the 60’s they are in excellent shape. I’ll go with it.
Just hijacking this thread sorry, are toe taps always on shoes older than a certain date? Or rather, only on shoes older than a certain date? I haven't come across them before and just curious.
Jonathan
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I would go to 1969-70, that heel is very blocky and the toe becoming round - it's that transitional period between the flat square toes shoes and the heavy soles of the early 70s. The writing inside is fine - typical of the script in Saks shoes of the period. The toe taps are called 'segs', show up in the 1920s, possibly even earlier - I am trying to think of the oldest examples I have seen, but definitely around by the late 1920s. I can't think of them lasting much beyond the early 1980s.