White Patent Leather Mary Janes
A century and a decade after its appearance, this icon of footwear still on top of the charts. Its history is synonymous with trend. Merceditas-called Mary Janes for Anglo-and are the last object of desire for collectors of shoes. If in 2002 the favorites were the black patent leather Manolo Blahnik, in which Sarah Jessica Parker SOAB and all followers of Sex in New York today are more coveted Christian Louboutin platform, ms known as Lady Daf . . However, the history of this fetish woman's name began to be written much earlier in the nineteenth century, and irnicamente by the wiles of a man. It was the dandy ingls George Brummel, arbiter of elegance in the court of King George IV, who became fashionable pumps (shoes or living room) and evening shoes, patent leather or soft leather, adorned with a grosgrain ribbon bow, to accompany the coat. In Spain, this shoe also pub in court and even witnessed a tragic love story. In fact, owes its name to the unhappy Queen Mara de las Mercedes de Orleans, popularly nicknamed Merceditas. His cousin Alfonso XII and she fell in love at first sight and they married in January 1878. The queen died due to illness despus just five months, with only 18 years, and the disconsolate king dedicated a song popular, NEDA XII Alfonso you?, Where this icon of footwear qued immortalized in one verse: The shoes you wore / were a rich patent leather / Alfonso is the regal / the day that he married. Mary Jane meets Quin. The name comes from a character ingls Buster Brown, a popular strip drawn by Richard Felton comedians Outcault and published in 1902 by The New York Herald, in which the protagonists, Buster and his sister Mary Jane, wore black Mary Janes patent leather. In 1904, just two years after its publicaciny exploiting the international tirn CMIC, the author sold a license to the Brown Shoe Company to market this type of shoes with the name of one of their characters. To boost sales, the company hired actors emulating white patent leather mary janes Jane and Buster Brown stores and theaters. A marketing strategy that made this design a bestseller children's and girls between the United States in the early twentieth century. First steps. Converted to unisex children's shoes for excellence, jumped to the big screen at the hands of girls as Baby Gumm prodigy. Skating with the name of Judy Garland, the wee early a stage actress for the first time in 1924. Then just two years and a half tena, but danced to the chambers with his two older sisters, The Gumm Sisters, accompanied by his mother at the piano and shod with black patent leather Mary Janes. As Shirley Temple, who dazzles tena six years when American tap dancing to the public with those same shoes, Teide white, and engaging in Grace (1934). In the mad years 20 to "swinging London". With jazz eclosin the success of night clubs and cabarets, and the sighting of sensual rhythms and contagious as the foxtrot, the white patent leather mary janes Jane with Tacna-finally-became the best dance partner of women. It was a cuestin PRACTICE: strip out the shoe to prevent the rampant pace shot of claqu. En charlestno the 60 years, another generation revolucin shook the foundations of society Europe, this time without heels. The baby doll rebelled against the sophistication of the women in the previous DCAD, dressed in the uniform of his childhood: short skirts and flat Mary Janes. Mary Quant model Twiggy embodied in the child and minifaldero that style, with Mary Janes calzndolo ms later, as will make Courrges Andr, Yves Saint Laurent, Betsey Johnson and even la maison Dior, mother of the shoe Needle Tacna, characteristics of the 50 years -. Cause and provocation. With 90 years Moss Kate arrives and the triumph of a new beauty, tena nothing to do with the voluptuousness of the top models of 80 years. Thin and emaciated, Kate became the anttesis of supermodels. She represented the tendency trash, how well are identified with grunge and heroin chic called. A style that went up to the catwalk to homeless girls, dressed and shod with impossible mixes or Dr. Martens Mary Janes. On stage, Courtney Love version Lolita style punk with slogans own. The Hole singer subverting naive as the aesthetics of 60 years and shaped a new style of schoolgirl tena little to do with the school uniform and with a wry much sex rejected the traditional role of women. The jump to youth subcultures influenced by the neo punk, psychobilly and rock GTIC was the next step. With the new century, white patent leather mary janes Jane is Haban become a hardcore icon shoes with buckles metlicas and platforms, such as Adult and Toddler selling a 1994 model of the American shoemaker Peter Fox's big moment 'cool' . In the new millennium, the glorification of Mary Janes came from the hand of the television series Sex MTIC in New York. In episode 17 of season four, Carrie enters the warehouse of fashion magazine Vogue and hundreds of shoes, discovers a pair of black patent leather, with nine centimeters Tacna, signed by Manolo Blahnik and exclaims: Oh, heavens, there! Always thinks he was an urban legend. Those shoes that Sarah Jessica Parker sighed, and that bean named Blahnik Campari, became the object of desire for all fashionistas. Such was the success that its price in Neiman Marcus stores in New York rose from 495 to 555 dollars after the issuance of the chapter on television. Already become myth, Fergie devotes a song on his first solo album, The Dutchess (2006). Present since the nineteenth century popular culture (and in any good wardrobe that boasts), the white patent leather mary janes Jane shoe NIOS have real and fiction, women who intend Aniar their appearance and many others want to be confused with l, but also faces terrorficos like puppets diablico Billy the Saw saga. Flat and Tacna, across history have gotten adept with all versions: black-colored Classics that white patent leather mary janes Jane wore from Buster Brown to the progressive and rebellious Mafalda Quino and gossipy friend Suzie, and also color-favorite of the teen and intellectual Vilma Dinkley the cartoon series Scooby-Doo (at the end of the years 60) -. Twiggy, Kate Moss, Sarah Jessica Parker . . . In feet qu see them again? This season, that of all who attend fashion. . . .
