Project: Another shoe modification--"rockabilly meets Hairspray"

My Decorative Arts students are moving on to their second unit, which is on the topic of footwear. We discuss not only shoes and boots (both soft and structured), but also other foot-related accessories like spats and gaiters. They will create two pairs of footwear, one simple and one complex.

I always try to do a practical example ahead of the class, either a sampler-style example (like my glove sewn in contrasting thread illustrating the different methods of glove-seaming) or an actual project of the kind they are expected to do. For this unit, i showed them several previous projects of this sort (like my poulaines, my knitted ladies spats, and my earlier shoe modification), but also did a new pair of modified shoes.

( project overview and images )