Shoe Qs (warning...huge pictures)

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I will get everything up from that estate someday soon...I swear.

Here are the shoes. There is an older pair of red cross that are very wintery that i am holding back on...but i want to list these.
These are never worn/never broken in and I thought they were worth offering for sale.

Firstly, when did this sole first appear?
The crinkly, bumpy rubber sole?
My initial gut one the sole was 70s
but then part of me wavered in regards to the rest of the shoe.
thinking they were 60s. I just remember a lot of these types of shoes from when i was a kid.

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My first thought was early 70s 72/73 because of the loop on the front that is very similar to a pair of platforms I have, but i could be really wrong. They could be 2001 for all i know. They are very crisp/never broken in/never worn. Most of the "newer" things in the estate were left boxec

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They are both 1970s. The red pair (maybe mid 70s?) have crepe rubber soles which they started putting on shoe soles in the 1920s but moreso in the 1950s and up. They show up more on men's casuals than women's until the 1970s.
The sandals look early 70s. Taiwan was a big exporter of footwear in the 70s before mainland China started exporting in the 80s. I am surprised they say all man made material because the cork in the heel and midsole both look real -- is it that photoprint cork that is wrapped around a core? I don't know of a fake cork that looks that good. Everything else looks synthetic to me, just the cork looks real. That stitched down sole through the cork is classic inexpensive Taiwan workmanship of the period.
 
Thanks Jonathan,

I had to check again...but nope...the cork is not a photoprint. you can feel the little brown divots as you run your hand acrossed it.

It was weird...everything from the late 60s on that was in this house was pretty much never worn/in its original packaging like she bought like a shopoholic and never wore it. Everything earlier than mid 50s look like it had been worn before, but it was just so, so strange with everything else!
 
I thought skimmers too.

Can you imagine keeping everything like that? Although I have to say when we cleared out my Grandma's stuff the other year I was amazed at the amount of things, particularly china and glassware (all in their original boxes/bags too with paperwork), that she had managed to buy and never use. And fit in a teeny tiny bungalow without anyone realising!!
 
hi the red loafers yuk...well we had to wear mandatory rubber soles exactly the same for indoor school shoes, yes we had in and outdoor shoes...and l wore these in my high school years which were 1969 on ward...

the cork heeld/soled shoes which we all wore here...l had a pair in white..yes dance around your handbags ladies..the white shoe brigade are advancing!! and l wore these in 1972-73...rock on
but as l recall as l moved to the states in january '75..the clothes worn by the my fellow students were a 2-3 years behind ...l think its all pretty mcuh caught up nowadays..btut its a consideration...putting jonathan dates spot on..but think of wearing them earlier!
 
The material feels softer than cotton canvas. It feels almost flocked.

Can you imagine keeping everything like that?
wait til I get around to all the sweaters still in christmas boxes from over the different years. Its not so much holding on to things but never enjoying them that bothered me

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Yuk?? I think they are kinda cute :)
 
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