A wonderfully eccentric pair of 1930s clown shoes, built on a serious black leather lace-up boot and then joyfully sabotaged at the toe. The oversized fronts are hand-painted in bold carnival stripes of red, green, yellow, and white, layered like a jaunty zigzag march across the leather. At the very tip, exaggerated white “teeth” edged in red grin back at you, cracked and worn from decades of hard laughs and harder landings.
The leather uppers are supple and dark, with heavy stitching, metal eyelets, and sturdy soles that remind you these were working shoes, made to survive pratfalls, footlights, and sawdust floors.
There’s something deeply charming about how seriously they were made for something so unserious. Equal parts folk art and theatrical relic, they carry the quiet evidence of laughter past, applause fading, and a performer stepping back into the shadows at the end of the night.
Measures: H 7.5" × W 17" × D 8"
A wonderfully eccentric pair of 1930s clown shoes, built on a serious black leather lace-up boot and then joyfully sabotaged at the toe. The oversized fronts are hand-painted in bold carnival stripes of red, green, yellow, and white, layered like a jaunty zigzag march across the leather. At the very tip, exaggerated white “teeth” edged in red grin back at you, cracked and worn from decades of hard laughs and harder landings.
The leather uppers are supple and dark, with heavy stitching, metal eyelets, and sturdy soles that remind you these were working shoes, made to survive pratfalls, footlights, and sawdust floors.
There’s something deeply charming about how seriously they were made for something so unserious. Equal parts folk art and theatrical relic, they carry the quiet evidence of laughter past, applause fading, and a performer stepping back into the shadows at the end of the night.
Measures: H 7.5" × W 17" × D 8"
