Shoes history period between 1911—1920

Events like the women's suffrage movement, the roots of Prohibition, and the Great Influenza epidemic of 1918 fundamentally changed American society. The RMS Titanic sank on her maiden voyage in 1912. Frank Lloyd Wright's Arts & Crafts movement began to take hold, and silent films featuring stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford were adored. World War I was definitely the most dramatic event of the Teens, but a number of other important things happened during this period, as well. Shoes and hosiery also became more exotic and colorful, most notably when Poiret commissioned the Perugia shoemakers to create a line of Eastern-style jeweled slippers. A variety of materials were used in shoe construction, including leathers mixed with colored canvas or gabardine to form two-toned "spectators." Some leathers were reversed to form suede and were used with a kid or patent finish. Both day and evening pumps were often decorated with removable buckles in cut steel, silver filigree, diamanté, or marcasite.