Men's Dance shoes 1940s 1950s and 1930s by

Men's Dance Shoes (Unisex)

Handmade dance orientated high quality 1930s, 1940s and 1950s shoes.

Sizes 3-13, to include half sizes. Shoes come in all colours and a range of materials, leather, suede, nubuck, patent, and non-leather. Shoes can be made in up to 3 colour combinations. Soles can be leather, chrome suede or crepe. We specialise in bespoke shoes. If you don’t see the style you require please contact us and we will be happy to help.

Shoes on this page are suitable for 1930's 1940’s 1950’s Swing, Jive, Lindy-hop, Balboa, Ballroom, Salsa, Latin

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The Spectator/ Co-respondent shoe originates from the nineteenth century, reaching its popularity during the 1920’s and 1930’s and still remains a classic shoe today. Style a low heeled oxford, semi-brogue, brogue in two contasting colours.

They are said to be called Co-respondent shoes because they were often left outside hotel rooms, ostensibly to be cleaned, as an easily identifiable signal that hanky-panky should be assumed to be taking place within. This was because the only cause for divorce at the time was adultery by one partner. For a couple to arrange a divorce in an amicable way, one member — it was commonly the man — had to be caught in flagrante with another woman. A minor industry grew up in which housemaids in hotels augmented their meagre wages by giving evidence of having found the supposedly adulterous couple in bed together. (worsite.blogspot.com/2008/03/co-respondent-shoes.html)

A Gibson shoe, also referred to as a Derby (in America a Blucher or Oxford) is a classic shoe, its construction being that the tongue is cut in one piece with the forepart, this is referred to as ‘open lacing’.