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In the News (Sun 3 Jun 12)

  
  History of the Building : The Button Factory : Artists' Studios : Portsmouth : New Hampshire
In the ten years that he spent developing the machine, he discovered that he needed buttons of uniform size, which were not then available.
Shoe buttons were made of fiber, and that technology led Morley to produce fiber-headed nails for upholstery and for electrical wiring.
The Button Factory became more visible to the community with the addition of the annual Open Studios, whereby the public could meet the building's artists and see some of its creative output.
www.buttonfactorystudios.com /building_history.htm   (519 words)

  
 Exhibitions at the Oakland International Airport -- Oakland Museum of California
Seeing colorful hand embroidered cloth shoes and high button shoes of the late 19th century, it becomes obvious that there was a greater formality in 19th century life.
Bridal shoes have complimented white wedding dresses since the 19th century and are considered an important part of the wedding ensemble.
The wedding shoes on display in the exhibition reflect different styles popular in the 19th and 20th centuries: from square-toed ivory satin shoes and white kid boots from the mid-1800s to white satin shoes decorated with embroidery, sequins and beads in 1993.
www.museumca.org /satelite/shoes.html   (492 words)

  
 Shoes and Boots
Shoes are available in fl, bone and light tan.
This shoe has a hand finished leather sole and heal a soft light weight leather upper with a 12 button closure and squared toe.
This practical shoe has a rubber sole and heal with a fabric lined leather upper.
www.riverjunction.com /catalog/boots/ladiesshoe.html   (120 words)

  
 Jerome Robbins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Among the numerous stage productions he worked on were West Side Story, High Button Shoes, Wonderful Town, Bells Are Ringing and Fiddler on the Roof.
His first assignment was Billion Dollar Baby (1945) and two years later he won his first Tony Award for choreographing Nanette Fabray and Phil Silvers in High Button Shoes.
During this period, Robbins continued to create dances for the Ballet Theatre, alternating between the two for the better part of the next two decades.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerome_Robbins   (959 words)

  
 www.1860-1960.com....one hundred years of fashion & accessories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The upper part of the shoe is made of supple white leather and the lower is made of a fl patent leather.
There are 6 white porcelain buttons on each shoe for closure and hard leather soles.
The white leather is a bit dingy in areas and one of the shoes has a small age spot on the side.
www.1860-1960.com /xb050p0.html   (109 words)

  
 Cobb Memorial Collection [photograph [microform].
Hunt, wearing a dress with a dark, high collar and trimmed with lace and a bow; ca.
Faber, wearing a dress with double rows of buttons and braid, and carrying a lace-trimmed parasol.
Portrait (full-length) of two children, one seated in a wooden chair wearing shoes with large buckles and holding a puppy, one standing; identified as Margueritta and Mesa Rose; on studio mount; ca.
elibrary.unm.edu /CSWRPhotoArchive/showItemList.php?qaccno=000-119   (11455 words)

  
 www.1860-1960.com....one hundred years of fashion & accessories
There are 14 fl buttons down the sides for closure.
This pair of shoes are old store stock and have never been worn.
The shoes are in mint condition with no wear.
www.1860-1960.com /xb058p0.html   (113 words)

  
 Victorian High Top Button Shoes
All of the buttons are there except for the top one on the left shoe.
The size of 34 1/2 is still clearly visible inside the shoe along with the Mayer name.
The bottom of the shoe is fl and the upper button portion is a medium brown with a hint of green.
www.antiqnet.com /detail,victorian-high-top,11085.html   (143 words)

  
 Shoes for men - Directory of Shoes for men Resources
Shoes from Italy for BUYERS and TRADING Co.,Shoes Footwear Italian...
ECCO Ladies'golf shoes and men's golf shoes are each designed with the needs of golfing enthusiasts very much in mind.
Shoes International - rohde, rohde ladies shoes, scholl sandals...
mensfootwear.co.uk /products/mens-diesel-mens-aldo.html   (369 words)

  
 www.1860-1960.com....one hundred years of fashion & accessories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
They are made of fl leather with 14 fl buttons on each side for closure.
These shoes are old store stock and have never been worn.
The shoes measure 9 inches long, 8 1/2 inches tall, and 2 1/2 inches wide.
www.1860-1960.com /xb062p0.html   (107 words)

  
 Playbill News: ON THE RECORD: High Button Shoes, Seventeen and Brel of La Mancha
If High Button Shoes was a long running financial success, Styne's 1949 musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a longer-running and more wholly satisfying affair that demonstrated that he could write musical comedy songs as well as anyone then practicing the art.
The best High Button Shoes could arrange was four two-sided 78s from RCA.) Silver's juicy delivery, combined with fresh-minted leading lady Nanette Fabray on the aforementioned "Jealous" and "Poppa," have always made the High Button Shoes cast album prized, albeit only 24 minutes long.
The other highlight of High Button Shoes was Jerome Robbins' "Bathing Beauty Ballet." This comic marvel was a ten-minute showpiece inspired by those old Mack Sennett two-reelers.
www.playbill.com /news/article/92654.html   (1881 words)

  
 High Button Shoes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
High Button Shoes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
High Button Shoes is a (A play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing) musical theater production, first staged at the New Century Theatre on (A street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters) Broadway on October 9, 1947.
The show opened at the Hippodrome on December 22, 1948 and ran for 291 performances.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/high_button_shoes.htm   (95 words)

  
 Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews: Los Angeles - "High Button Shoes" - 5/27/02
At a smaller level, he also secretly slips brass knuckles into a fist fight and charms a ladies' birdwatching society with the use of a bird call whistle.
This might have been a nostalgic hoot when High Button Shoes opened in 1947, but there is a limit to its comic potential in 2002.
High Button Shoes plays at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura through June 2, 2002.
www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/la/la50.html   (716 words)

  
 Stephen Longstreet - Writer
Stephen's first and most succesful broadway play script was "High Button Shoes".
This became the content for "High Button Shoes".
"High Button Shoes" opened on Oct. 9, 1947.
www.stephenlongstreet.com /sl_high_button.htm   (177 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
For daytime wear, Women wore long skirts, long sleeves, high necks, and high button shoes.
1900's Outfit The high neck, long sleeves, and long skirt were worn at the turn of the century.
1900's Shoes Shoes were high, button shoes with pointed toes and high heels.
www.uen.org /utahlink/tours/tourViewCategory.cgi?category_id=16990&tour_id=13227   (364 words)

  
 A 19th Century Pair of Childrens High Button Shoes.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
A 19th Century Pair of Childrens High Button Shoes.
These boots are made of fl leather and have 6 buttons up the sides.
The shoes are in remarkably crisp condition for their age and bear the stamp of Godman on the bottom.
www.antiquesonline.com /pages/300730.html   (82 words)

  
 1997 Cabaret Convention - Sunday Grand Finale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Also on the program was Donald Saddler who was a dancer in the original HIGH BUTTON SHOES and went on to choreograph several Broadway shows, winning two Tony Awards along the way.
What followed next was perhaps my high point of the whole cabaret convention: Barbara Brussell singing a medley from the show that lasted about ten beautiful minutes.
The graceful movements of her arms as she sang alone in the spotlight gave an aura of beauty to the songs that held the audience captive through the whole set.
www.svhamstra.com /CONVNYC/ConvNY9707.shtml   (1105 words)

  
 custom high button shoes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
High Button Shoes Collage Price: $59.99 Size: 18 x 24 inches...
Ladies High-Top Button-Up Shoes - Black These are the ladies high top shoes, with 12 buttons and button...
Boys in the late 19th century common wore high-top button shoes.
www.amazingbuttonsguide.com /15/custom-high-button-shoes.html   (220 words)

  
 Augusta Georgia: opinion @ugusta: Headlines for 11/2/97
Thumbs up to the South Carolina Supreme Court for reaffirming last year's ruling that a pregnant woman on drugs can be prosecuted for child abuse.
Your Oct. 7 editorial ``Fairness first,'' in regard to admissions at the Medical College of Georgia, praises the fact that there are no admissions quotas.
One reason high school graduates may have trouble with Edward Giusto's problem in his Oct. 26 letter may be due to the confusing manner in which it is posed.
chronicle.augusta.com /opinion/110397.html   (278 words)

  
 antique baby shoes
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Pink wool antique vintage Victorian era baby shoes in excellent condition.
These vintage Victorian turn of the century baby shoes look like a big girls vintage high button shoes.
www.anothertimevintageapparel.com /stock_PS.htm   (171 words)

  
 S. D. Jones: Folk Art: Fans in Bottles, p.2
This colorful jug bottle contains fans, birds, high button shoes, and beads glued in the shape of crosses on medallions of wood.
At the base of the structure holding the fans, the beads loop through the tops of the medallions.
At the ends of the cross bar between the fans are two high-button shoes.
www.sdjones.net /FolkArt/fanbottles2.html   (732 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Sammy Cahn (Music: Popular And Jazz, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
He also wrote lyrics for several Broadway musicals, beginning with High Button Shoes (1947).
The singer recorded 89 Cahn songs, including "Three Coins in the Fountain" (1954), "All the Way" 1957), "High Hopes" (1959), and "Call Me Irresponsible" (1963), each of which won Cahn an Academy Award.
Toward the end of his active career (1974) he starred in a one-man Broadway show featuring his songs.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/CahnSam.html   (276 words)

  
 English boys' clothing: Haigh family Hedley and Ernest 1870   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The boys also wear matching bloomer knickers and white stockings with high-top button shoes.
The detailing includes dark front buttons set in a vertical element, but the buttons look ornamental rather than functionl.
Ernest's bloomer knickers seem to have some ruffles while Hedly's are look plain, but as noted this may simply because of the lay of the fabric.
histclo.hispeed.com /country/eng/pe/1860/hf/hf70-01eh.html   (1204 words)

  
 Hot Shoes by Maureen Reilly - Schifferbooks.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Explore women's shoes as a powerful talisman of fashion, culture, and sexual energy.
These are the shoes real women wore, and loved enough to save.
You'll see designer shoes by the likes of David Evins and Palter De Liso, who were influenced by haute couture but marketed to the upper middle-class.
www.schifferbooks.com /newschiffer/book_template.php?isbn=0764304356   (171 words)

  
 Pioneer Clothes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The foot wear for women were sandals, slippers, high button up shoes, and long stockings.
Women wore lots of things underneath their clothes; drawers (like pants), corsets (almost like a vest to shrink their waist), shifts (like short sleeve dresses), camisoles (like a vest with ruffles), crinoline (made the dresses 5-7 feet wide), petticoats (petticoats were worn so a dress wouldn't stick to a girl's legs.)
The shoes men wore were laced high shoes or working shoes.
www.prairie.district96.k12.il.us /Museum/clothes.html   (284 words)

  
 Music Circus - Stories and Tales
I probably could have been fired from this high paying job - I worked at least 30 hours each week and took home $19 and change - but a personal audience with this legend would have been way more than worth it.
Except for the principals that were billeted at the Lambertville House, most of the company found rooms in local homes - mine cost $8 a week and was just down the street from Hennessy and McGuire's greasy spoon where dinner could be had for 65 cents.
At the high water mark of the Music Circus era, there were operations in Florida (St. Petersburg and maybe another), the Dallas State Fair, and elsewhere.
www.lambertville-music-circus.org /stories/inside-stories.html   (4658 words)

  
 Ladies Victorian & Edwardian Shoes from Woodland Farms
Victorian Precious red velvet baby shoes with hand made eyelets for lacing.
C.1790 Amazing that at least this single shoe of the pair survived this long over 200 hundred years!
A wonderful addition to a shoe collectors prized possessions.
www.woodlandfarmsantiques.com /shoes/womens/vic-edindex.html   (302 words)

  
 Vintage : Shoes :
Description: This is a vintage set of shoe trees trimmed in coral ribbon on the top and lavender ribbon on the bottom.
The shoes are in Mint, 'as new' condition, acquired from the estate of an executive's wife with hundreds of shoe pairs...
Offering for sale a lovely pair of leather shoes believed to be from India, I bought these from the same antique dealer I acquired a lot of my Indian Saris from.
search.rubylane.com /collectibles?id=84.6   (1559 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Horse Racing - South Bay Cove wins Ontario Debutante
South Bay Cove pressed the pace on the outside in the six-furlong dash for 2-year-old fillies, as High Button Shoes set splits of :22.34 and :45.78 seconds.
Wise Timmy edged High Button Shoes for third in the eight-horse field.
It was the third straight win in the Ontario Debutante for jockey Todd Kabel, who also rode High Button Shoes in her maiden triumph.
espn.go.com /horse/news/2004/0822/1865363.html   (234 words)

  
 NEWS from me
Long before Bilko, long before Silvers was a major star, he headlined a Broadway show called High Button Shoes, the book of which was sort of written by Mr.
That is, Longstreet penned the script and then — if we believe the legend — he departed, leaving others to revise it during its out-of-town try-outs.
In any case, High Button Shoes was a considerable success, and Silvers believed he was the reason.
povonline.com /2002/News021802.htm   (3196 words)

  
 Original New York Cast 1971- NOTES- Costume Concepts
The Costumes are collages emplying the use of different fabrics- stripes, polka dots, bold colors; a potpourri of objects seeming as if the kids picked them up at an antique store and just added them- tassles, cloth flowers, lace, buttons, safety pins, and patches; with each clown wearing old and new articles.
Also, all of the clowns wear colorful shoes, preferably varied i.e., combat boots, high button shoes, tennis shoes.
Maroon Hat with flower -Blue velvet jacket, Green tights, socks, orange shoes, glitzy waistband, Fitted form- shows off figure, yet is funny.
www.geocities.com /sloanpeters/costume.htm   (395 words)

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