Vintage meets new

These round toe court shoes are an homage to old fashioned NOTIONS. Notions are the granny name for buttons lace & ribbons!

The button on this shoe is handmade. The floral gingham leather is vintage 80's with a soft non weather proof surface & unfortunately they no longer make this print. The cotton lace across the toe is also vintage, sourced from one of those fabulous nanna thrift stores!

I'm very into combining vintage with new. I love the history of old items & I love to recycle. The shoe last (the form on which you mould the shoe on, by stretching the leather around it) is also vintage recycled. I retrieved the shoe last from an old cobblers box that had seen better days. But with a clean up & an oiled hinge it came up trumps!

I made this shoe to wear to my then sister -in-laws lovely wedding. Unfortunately the shoes needed some repairs after the big day due to the half hour slighly wet walk along a dirt track, that I was coerced into making in my good clothes! However with a bit of cobbling they came up trumps & my mother walked off with them. She says she's been wearing them so that she can pretend that it is summer again!!!!!