American Duchess Historic Shoes Blog
Spotlight: New "Fraser" Early 18th Century Leather Shoes
Lauren reporting - As you all know, this year we've opened all of our new Fall/Winter historic styles for pre-order at the same time. We've also made the pre-order period...
Introducing our Fall Collection of Historic Shoes - Pre-Orders Open!
It's a big day! For the first time, we're presenting our entire Fall collection all at once. Intense. This year we have new offerings in several of our historic categories....
The Great China Adventure, Or, How Jet-Lag is Evil
Hello Lovelies! Abby here - sort of... Jet lag is evil & mean. But I'm here in body, even if that means my circadian rhythms are still totally bananas and...
Introducing Abby Cox, New Vice President of American Duchess
Hello Lovelies :) Abby here...and man, does it feel good to write those two words again! It feels like it's been forever since I've really sat down and blogged like...
Classic 1940s Shoes by Royal Vintage (That's Me!)
I've been kindof quietly working on this other thing for awhile, for about a year now - it's a whole new line of historical reproduction shoes for the 20th century...
Oh, Hello Again...
Our temporary sign, lol Darlings, I do apologize for being MIA lately, especially right as we started the Simplicity 18th c. Pattern Hacks series... ... but it's been for good...
New Civil War Boots - Pre-Order Now Open!
It's another pre-order day! I've been trying to go more towards "collections" for Summer and Fall and less all-over-the-place for introducing new shoes for you ladies. With that, I'd like...
"Manhattan" Button Boots - Now Open for Pre-Order
It's time! The new "Manhattan" Victorian and Edwardian Button Boots are now open for pre-order. I've been talking a bit about these new boots in previous posts and on Facebook,...
Tuesday Shoes-day: 1920s Shoes Inspiration
Lately I've been working on the second collection for Royal Vintage Shoes. Wait, what? You haven't even seen the first collection yet! I know, don't worry! I'm having to adjust...
Exclusive Manchester Regency Boots - Pre-Order Open!
It's been an age in developing our recreation of the famous Manchester Art Gallery c. 1820 Grecian booties. Voted as our Cycle 6 Exclusive, the Manchester Regency Boots are finally...finally!...finally!...
Professional Shoe Hunting Adventures in Vegas
View from (almost) the top Last week I went to Magic in Vegas. That sounds glamorous, but Magic is the name of the USA's largest fashion trade show, and when...
Heading to Vegas, Baby
Being from Nevada, albeit the other end of the state, I'm not really excited to be going to Vegas for the next three days...but I AM excited to be visiting...