Followers of Fashion

Event Description

Explore the highs and lows of shoe fashions over the last 900 years!

A talk by Senior Shoe Curator of Northampton Museum and Art Gallery and curator of the Out of the Stores: Shoes exhibition at Newarke Houses. Rebecca Shawcross looks at the highs and lows of shoe fashions over the last 900 years.

Illustrated with images of shoes from the Designated shoe collection it will look at some of the different and not so different styles and fashions that have appeared including the distinctly risqué medieval poulaine, the delicate flats of the early nineteenth century and the ridiculous 1970s platforms and with everything in between.

£5 per person

Booking essential. Book online or through museum reception.

Refreshments available

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