Fall 2017 The Costume Designer 19
THE COSTUME DEPARTMENT
HISTORY OF DRESS
If the Shoe Fits
llustration by Robin Richesson
rrichesson@cdgia.com
Text by Marcy Froehlich
mfroehlich@cdgia.com
In my sleek CAP TOE
OXFORDS with elegant
closed laces, I can dance
the night away like Fred
Astaire in Flying Down
to Rio.
Off to Chicago, where my MONK STRAP shoes
may impress the underworld denizens and wily
lawyers, like Billy Flynn, but could I tap as well
as Richard Gere?
Home at last, like Ryan Gosling in La La Land.
Relaxed in my open-laced suede BLUCHER
BUCKS, I gaze out at the city from Griffith
Observatory, listening to jazz.
Decked out in my two-tone DERBY BROGUES,
I'm An American in Paris. The open laces are
comfortable, and the perforations are sporty yet
sleek. I feel as fashionable as Gene Kelly!
