St Micheal's boots, candies shoes, men's shoes - help please :)

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coffeegrl

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St Micheal\'s boots, candies shoes, men\'s shoes - help please :)

Oh my goodness do I love these boots!! Sad about my fat calves though :kiss2: andyways can you please help me date these guys? Thank you!!

St. Micheal's boots
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Men's shoes

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Candies shoes

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And these are these riding boots??

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Thanks again! :party:
 
Wow--I love those men's shoes.... But can't help much on dating them; I find men's shoes generally tough to date. I want to say 60s (maybe early to mid), but I'm totally not sure.

Both pairs of boots are 70s, I think mid to late. I think the last pair might be a bit newer than the first, as that "riding-style" of boot top was popular later on, I believe. And, no, they are not true riding boots (the heel is way too high), but made to look like them. You could call those a "harness boot."

And the Candies I think are early 80s, but hard to tell without seeing the heel in profile. Could be 70s.

And.... I could be wrong on all of them.....
 
Agree with Anne - the boots are 1975-1978ish (the second pair are not riding boots but they are borrowing from the riding boot look for their style) and the Candies look early 80s to me. Difficult to date the brown tasselled loafers - probably early-mid 80s. Church's shoes are fine quality men's dress shoe makers - those were probably $200.00 shoes back in 1985 ($600ish and up today - if you can find leather soles anymore!)
 
Jonathan, you've "taught me well...."

But the men's shoes--yikes! Would the shape of the toe be a big clue? I know in the late 60s & into the 70s shoes were chunkier and the toes were squarish or sometimes very, very round. When I saw the all-leather soles on these, I figured earlier rather than later--as you say, leather soles are such a rarity, except in very expensive shoes. It seems that, except for the mod & Beatle-boot shoes and the disco heel shoes, men's shoes haven't gone through as many evolutions & revolutions as have men's. Is that true, do you think?
 
:adore::adore::adore::adore::adore: You guys are rockstars!!

that's sweet, mid 70's was my first thought on the boots, then I thought I maybe was wrong and they were later so yay!! Harness boots is a good one, riding style boots maybe?? and I thought 80s for the Candies too - I am learning :cheer: thanks to all of you.

The mens I was clueless on so I'm interested to know if there are differences, I don't see any difference but the leather sole and the labeling inside seemed older to me.

Jonathan you're the shoe king :adore: Anne, you are way better then you give yourself credit for :headbang: rockstars the both of you :) Thanks again!
 
Church's shoes always go really well for me, particularly if they're in a good size (which for me seems to be a UK 10 or 11). Great quality. I sold a pair recently to a fellow who does a 50s stage show involving a good deal of jiving...he was skidding around the shop to text them for "slippiness". I give those leather soles a fortnight without matinees!
 
Anne - my suggested date for the Church's shoes is from a process of elimination of what they couldn't be. Tasselled loafers were only introduced for men in the 1950s, so they can't be earlier. I would expect a broader toe or clunkier sole or heel for 60s, 70s, or 90s so that leaves 50s or 80s and I know the label isn't 50s and the 80s did have a lot of fine, thin soled shoes for men, so 80s won.
 
Jonathan, thanks very much for that explanation! My very, very first thought when I saw these was 50s, as I did know that tasseled loafers came into being then. But they just didn't "look" that old, so I went on to the early/mid 60s. I knew they weren't late 60s or early 70s.

So, that left me with mid to late 70s, or 80s. And they looked too "old" to be 80s! But, you know, to me the 80s seem like yesterday, so I often think that 80s is "new." LOL....
 
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