Shoe History | Women's Footwear in America

Hollywood Babe 2 | Arthur L. Benjamin, circa 1940.

April 28, 2015 § 2 Comments

The Pump With A Certain Bow.

April 23, 2015 § 5 Comments

Among the family slides I found one of a shoe and wonder if it’s the pump my grandfather told me about as a child.

Then I created a little pump with a certain bow on it…and that’s what kept us busy…Well that little shoe, forget now what the name… we had a name for it…And I kept on creating new things. – Ben Benjamin

A Cross Between Betty And Joan.

April 22, 2015 § 6 Comments

I recently purchased a photo scanner and now am finally starting to scan all the slides I have. Here’s one of my mother from probably the 1950’s taken by my dad. I haven’t had a chance to ask her about it yet. She’s like a cross between Betty and Joan from Mad Men. I’m really loving this last season and sad to see it come to an end. Expect more Betty and Joan inspired fashion in the coming weeks.

Miss Pappagallo, 1964.

April 20, 2015 § 8 Comments

Ben Benjamin Appointed By United States Secretary Of Labor As Special Employer Representative To Meeting In San Juan, Puerto Rico.

March 7, 2015 § Leave a comment

A year into this blog and I’m still searching for the year that my grandfather went to Puerto Rico. I found another news clipping recently, but again with no date. My guess is sometime in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s. He bought his house in Florida in 1957 and retired from I. Miller shoes sometime after 1955…back to the library.