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Author Mitchell, Louise, 1961-

Title Stepping out : three centuries of shoes / by Louise Mitchell with Lindie Ward ; foreword by June Swann
Published Sydney : Powerhouse Pub. ; [London] : Lund Humprhies] [distributor], 1997

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 MELB  391.413 Mit/Sot  UNAVAILABLE
Description 80 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 29 cm
Contents Introduction and The making of a shoe -- The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The twentieth century -- The Australian shoe industry
Summary "Feet haven't changed much over the centuries but shoes certainly have. Stepping out: three centuries of shoes -- a selection of the Powerhouse Museum's extraordinary collection of shoes dating from the 1700s to today -- reveals foot fetishes and fantasies as well as changes in fashion, society and shoe making. Book jacket."--Jacket
Notes Powerhouse Museum's collection of shoes
Bibliography Bibliography: page 79
Subject Powerhouse Museum -- Exhibitions.
Footwear industry -- Australia -- History -- Exhibitions.
Shoes -- History -- Exhibitions.
Footwear -- History -- Exhibitions.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Exhibition catalogues
Exhibition catalogs.
Author Ward, Lindie.
Powerhouse Museum.
LC no. 2002327267
ISBN 1863170650 :
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