Tiki Shoes Info Needed, Pretty Please. :-)

Leisa

Leisa

VFG Member
I found these yesterday when I was supposed to be job hunting. Well, I was job hunting, but I put an app in at a thrift store & found them. LOL!

Anyway - I *think* they're still being produced, so could y'all take a peek at them & tell me if you think they're vintage or repros, please?

Many Thanks!

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My main concern is about the gold stickers on the bottom. If they aren't vintage (& I kind of fell like they're not), I'll still list them for VLV. And what do you make of the handwritten numbers?

And I wish they were a lil bigger.

Many Thanks!
 
The Philippines learned the clog tradition from their Spanish colonists and it became a Philippino style of shoe in the early 1900s. They started making fancy carved and painted versions in the 1940s as tourist items for US soldiers, however, they continued making them into the 1950s. I have never seen a pair I could identify as being 1960s, so I think they may have fallen from use for a while but they came back in the 1970s which is when this pair is from. The 1970s ones are just varnished wood usually. SO your pair is vintage, just not the older vintage ones.
 
No, the numbers had nothing to do with my dating - they look relevant to the sizing only. I have just handled enough of these to forumulate a dating. If anything they might be newer - I suspect they were being imported again in the 1990s, but the perforated leather upper looks like the same kind of vamps you got on Candies in the late 1970s, so I am thinking they are probably late 1970s.
 
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