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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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Winkle Pickers are pointed shoes and boots worn by men and women from the 1950’s onwards. The name derives from the popular seaside tradition of eating periwinkle snails eaten using a pin to extract the snail, referred to as ‘winkling it out’, the name ‘winkle pickers’ derived from this.

 
         

Winkle bugsy Black/White

Bugsy brogue Black/White
patent
     
Winkle bugsy 1950s dance shoe Black/White Bugsy brogue 1950s dance shoe Black/White patent

 

 

 
         
         

Below styles taken from original 1940's patterns.

 
         
Ray
Red/Yellow
Leather sole
Ray
Black/Zebra
Leather sole
Ray
Black/Red
Leather sole


 
Ray 1950s dance shoe Red/Yellow Leather sole Ray 1950s dance shoe Red/Yellow Leather sole Ray 1950s dance shoe Red/Yellow Leather sole
         
         
         
Swing kings Punched all the way through
Brown Suede
Leather sole
Swing kings Punched all the way through
Black Nubuck
Black eva sole
Swing kings
Beige Punched
Brown piping
Red eva sole
Natural rand
Swing kings Punched all the way through
White Nubuck
Black eva sole
 
1940s Dance Shoe Swing 1940s Dance Shoe Swing kings Punched Black Nubuck eva sole 1940s Dance Shoe Swing kings Beige Punched Brown piping Red eva sole Natural rand 1940s Dance Shoe Swing kings Beige Punched Brown piping Red eva sole Natural rand  
         
         

Bowling alley construction was considered to be an important part of property development in the western United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, costing millions of  dollars to build as they were like small towns. As a result of this bowling shoes became a popular casual shoe.

 
         
60's Bowling Shoe
Brown/Beige suede
Cream/black eva
sole
       
60's Bowling Shoe        
         
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