Wednesday Whimsy S Is For Shoes

S Is For Shoes and I’ve got more Victorian trade cards to share…it seems to have been quite a “thing” in 1880’s advertising to have a pretty shoe with a bouquet of flowers artfully arranged inside. The one above is my favorite, and was advertising the White Sewing Machine Company, with 700,000 of them in use by busy seamstresses at the time!

“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”Marilyn Monroe I’m totally with her, although I suspect she andI were thinking of something a...