Synopsis
Early "footery fashions" film sponsored by the Walk-Over Company.
Uploader's description on archive.org
Details
- Running time
- 3 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- Modesoft1917
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Shoes
- Fashion
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Interesting, self-conscious too · Logical · 2007-07-17
"Modes of the Moment" was a well chosen and classy subject header. The shoes were more incidental. Note the stockings. Stockings then were either silk (hence the seaming seen), or lisle, the cotton weave we know today as t-shirt cloth. There were no nylons yet. The fabrics then--the silks and serges and all of them were of a variety and richness not seen today. It was harder for women to dress really stylishly, even in that day when most women were seamstresses in their own homes. Most, the mothers of the nation, dressed in cottons and woolens. My gosh, though, this film details the…
★★★★★ · Very weird · frenchmarky · 2005-09-11
I think the reason the walking looks stiff is because it's the same old speeded-up action as other silent movies so once you speed up normal stepping around, it ends up looking like awkward, quick stomping. And here I thought commercials at the movies was a new phenomenon, looks like they were doing it 90 years ago!
