Shoes: An Illustrated History

By Rebecca Shawcross

From chopines to stilettos, Louis XIV to Louboutin, Shoes: An Illustrated History is the definitive guide to footwear.

Shoes have always been more than just a practical necessity. They reveal the culture of the times in which they were worn - the sexual morals, the social power play, as well as the endless shifting of fashion. Rebecca Shawcross takes the reader on a fascinating journey - packed with social and historical detail - of making and wearing, of the spectacular and the everyday, of conforming and rebelling.

Lavishly illustrated with a dazzling array of shoes from all over the world, Shoes: An Illustrated History tells the extraordinary story of this ultimate object of desire, from antiquity to the present.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472531000
• ISBN13: 9781472531001
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.7" x 9.8"