 The ladies' shoes were of many fashions. " They have corked shoes, puisnets, pantoffles, and slippers," says Stubbs; "some of black velvet, some of white, some of green, and some of yellow, some of Spanish leather, and some of English, stitched with silk...  The book of the feet; a history of boots and shoes - Page 47by Joseph Sparkes Hall - 1847 - 148 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Robinson Planché - 1834 - 410 pages
...of many fashions. " They have corked shoes, puisnets, pantoffles, and slippers," says Stubbs; "some of black velvet, some of white, some of green, and...embroidered with gold and silver all over the foot, with other gewgaws innumerable." The cork shoes here mentioned continued in fashion amongst the ladies the... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - Clothing and dress - 1834 - 410 pages
...of many fashions. " They have corked shoes, puisnets, pantoffles, and slippers,'1 says Stubbs; "some of black velvet, some of white, some of green, and...embroidered with gold and silver all over the foot, with other gewgaws innumerable." The cork shoes here mentioned continued in fashion amongst the ladies the... | |
 | Edward Duke - Architecture, Domestic - 1837 - 686 pages
...(who wrote at that period,) that " they have corked shoes, puisnets, pantofles, and slippers, some of black velvet, some of white, some of green, and...embroidered with gold, and silver, all over the foot, with other gewgaws innumerable." " Cork shoes continued in fashion," (says Planche,) " during the greater... | |
 | Edward Duke - Architecture, Domestic - 1837 - 686 pages
...(who wrote at that period,) that " they have corked shoes, puisnets, pantofles, and slippers, some of black velvet, some of white, some of green, and...embroidered with gold, and silver, all over the foot, with other gewgaws innumerable." " Cork shoes continued in fashion," (says Planche,) " during the greater... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - Clothing and dress - 1846 - 640 pages
...the celebrated " anatomiser of abuses," declares that " they have corked shoes, puisnets, pantofles, and slippers ; some of them of black velvet, some...embroidered with gold and silver all over the foot : with other gewgaws innumerable." The high-heeled shoes are alluded to by Warner, in Albion's England, as... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - Clothing and dress - 1846 - 412 pages
...many fashions. " They have corked shoes, puisnets, pantoffles, and slippers,'" says Stubbs ; " some of black velvet, some of white, some of green, and...embroidered with gold and silver all over the foot, with other gewgaws innumerable." The cork shoes here mentioned continued in fashion amongst the ladies the... | |
 | American literature - 1852 - 636 pages
...tho "Anatomy of Abuses," 1ÍS8, declares that the fashionables then wore " corked shoes, puisnete, pantoffles, and slippers, some of them of black velvet,...alludes to the extravagance of those who "Wear a farm in shoe-fitrings od£ed with gold, And spangled garters worth a copy-hold." The shoe-roses were made of... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1858 - 430 pages
...shoes, puisnets, pantoffles and slippers," of various coloured velvet, Spanish and English leather, stitched with silk and embroidered with gold and silver all over the foot, &c. In the Accounts, in July 1612, six pair of shoes and a pair of pantables to my mistress, cost 18s.... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - Clothing and dress - 1860 - 638 pages
...the celebrated " anatomiser of abuses," dechores that "they have corked shoes, puisnets, pantofles, and slippers ; some of them of black velvet, some...embroidered with gold and silver all over the foot : with other gewgaws innumerable." The high-heeled shoes are alluded to by Warner, in Albion's England, as... | |
 | 1863 - 568 pages
...St. Magnus. Lastly, the dainty foot of our ideal beauty is encased in pantoufles of yellow velvet, " stitched with silk, and embroidered with gold and silver all over the foot, with other gewgaws innumerable." The farthingale continued popular throughout the reign of James I. ; and... | |
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