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2. Court shoe
Heeled shoes with low cut fronts and usually no fastening. The plain seamless pump started
life as a heel-less shoe worn indoors. It was a slip on which did not extend beyond or above
the vamp and quarter top lines, held onto the foot without a fastening, although later a wrap
around strap like a ballet slipper was used. In the UK the pump was known as a court shoe.

3. Historical Background
 By the nineteenth century the slip on pump had become sophisticated worn by both men and
women. A low front pump deliberately tantalized by exposing suggestive toe cleavage. When
dandy Count
 D'Orsay introduced a pump style which was low cut on the sides to expose the curve of the
long arch and the sinuous movements of the foot the shoe took on extra sensual components.
 The sensual trifecta was completed with the addition of higher heels. By the 1930s daytime
shoes were neat and feminine-looking with oval toes and straight, high heels.
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4. Women’s wear
• Pumps for women are usually heeled. The shape has varied through time. In the UK, in 2007, a
closed toe and wide (non-stiletto) heel were worn by the very fashion-conscious, but most still
wore stilettos of mainly 'kitten' height to medium height.
• In the UK, outside the fashion trade, the term "pumps" would normally imply flat or low-heel
dancing or ballerina pumps, or even rubber-soled canvas plimsolls. In the U.S., "pumps"
exclusively refers to women's shoes with a kitten or higher heel.
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5. • Pumps can be made from any material, but traditional patent leather is popular. Pumps are
mostly worn with a suit or a uniform, but are also worn with formal and informal dresses,
skirts, trousers, and jeans. White, stiletto-heeled pumps are the standard attire with
swimsuits in beauty pageants.
• Pumps are also part of the costume of a ballroom dancer. They are made of satin, usually
tan, though other colors are made as well, and worn on both the competition and practice
floors.

6. Fig: Women’s Court shoe
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Women’s court shoe

7. Men’s wear
 In the Regency period, during the day upper-class gentlemen in western Europe wore dress
boots, and boots or pumps by night, which accompanied silk knee-high stockings and
breeches. The shoes originally had silver cut-steel buckles, but these were removed by the
influence of Brummell, and a square grosgrain bow was added. By Victorian times, evening
footwear was pumps when there would be dancing or music (hence the name opera
shoe or opera slipper), and patent leather dress boots otherwise. Pumps remained as
standard with evening full dress until the 1930s. At that time, the dress boot was also going
out of fashion, as laced shoes began to be worn at all times.
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8.  Even though it now survives in much the same form as it was at the start of the 19th century
(though it is occasionally now worn with plain, not patent, calf), pumps have been largely
displaced by Oxfords, perhaps because of an effeminate image and the declining use of white
tie. It remains acceptable (though rare) with black tie, and, since formal boots are now hardly
ever worn, pumps are standard with white tie, their only remaining common use. They are
still preferred with formalwear by many leaders of style. The original versions worn with steel
cut buckles are still worn as part of British court uniform and dress.

9. Fig: Men’s Court shoe
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Men’s court shoe

10. Basic Features of Court Shoe
 It has an unbroken topline.
 The top line will be below the vamp point.
 Shoes for ladies formal and casual wear.
 No adjustable fastening, with no material over the instep. Shoe held on by clip of the top
line.
 Can be: (i) ½ cut-seamed down the vamp.
(ii) ¾ cut-inside waist seam
(iii) Whole cut-no seam, all excluding back seam.
 Many variations possible such as low heel, one or two side open, open toe, sling back, etc.
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11. Court Shoe
Topline
Vamp
Heel
Fig: Court Shoe
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12. Unbroken top line
Unbroken top
line & no
adjustable
fastening
Topline
Fig: Court Shoe
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13. The top line
will be below
the vamp point.
The top line will be below the vamp point
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14. ¾ cut-inside
waist seam
¾ cut-inside waist seam
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15. Whole cut-no seam, all excluding back seam

16. Some Style of Court Shoe
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