Women's Footwear in America

I’m embarrassed to admit on a blog about shoes that I had really never heard of Bata shoes.

120 Years of Bata Advertising

 

I was telling my husband about a shoe museum I’d found in Toronto Canada called The Bata Shoe Museum when he pulled out a childhood photo from Peru. He told me he had begged is mother for the shoes he’s wearing in it — his Wayfinder Shoes by Bata. Embedded in the heal was a compass that fell out after only wearing them a few times.  He remembered the stores were all over Lima.

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More about the Wayfinder shoe

 

The company Bata shoes was founded in 1894 in Czechoslovakia and was one of the first real shoe manufacturerers.  If you’d like to know more about the history of Bata Shoes click the link here.

History|Bata shoes for all

 

Tagged: Bata Shoe Museum, Bata shoes, Shoes, Vintage Fashion, Wayfinder shoes

§ 2 Responses to Bata Shoes

• Maison Bentley Style says:

  February 17, 2014 at 7:47 pm

  Does he still have them?? The tread is incredible.. xxx

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  • Julia says:

    February 17, 2014 at 8:01 pm

    Wouldn’t that be amazing! Looks like they still make something similar, but alas no compass.

    http://www.bata.in/webbata/faces/tiles/product.jsp?productID=1430534&catalogueID=2&categoryID=548&parentCategoryID=547

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