From colonial traditions to modern values: Eufrásia Teixeira Leite's shoes and Brazilian footwear, 1808-1930.

How to quote: SOARES, Cecília. From colonial traditions to modern values: Eufrásia Teixeira Leite’s shoes and Brazilian footwear, 1808-1930. Journal of Dress History, vol. 06, issue 01, spring 2022, p.32-78.

You can check here my Presentation about the same theme, at the ADH International Conference (2021). DOI: 10.13140/RG2.2.20582.09280.

Abstract

This article explores features of Brazilian shoemaking and footwear over the course of the nineteenth century by analysing and contextualizing six pairs that belonged to businesswoman Eufrásia Teixeira Leite. Today, they are kept at the Museu Casa da Hera, in her hometown of Vassouras, 120 km from the city of Rio de Janeiro. The research was based upon digital methodologies. The shoes were seen on site and compared to pictures and descriptions of other pairs, which were available on online international exhibitions and catalogues. Primary and secondary sources were also consulted. This study concludes that the shoes seem to have been carefully kept as memory items and at least one pair could have been someone else’s and not Eufrásia’s. Click to read the whole text.