Shoe ad from 1939:

[IcyPeas]

[JoseBalow]

1. That would be worth $71.91 in today's Dollars

https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=3.19&year=1939

[gay texan]

2. "A" is pretty cute! n/t

[kimbutgar]

3. They look so uncomfortable !

I’ll take my flat tennis shoes anyday!

[hlthe2b]

4. Oh, we've had shoes even uglier...

At least they were supportive, I guess.

[Polly Hennessey]

5. They look so sensible. Nothing like the terrifying looking shoes of today.

[Scrivener7]

6. I'd wear "Graceful Stitching." They'd look great with jeans or wide leg pants.

[markodochartaigh]

7. When I became a registered nurse

(male) in 1983 uniform shoes were about $20. Uniform tops were also about $20 and uniform pants were $30. Pay was $5.50-7.50/hr. White uniforms were so easily stained. It wasn't until the mid 90's that we could wear scrubs, of course the hospital had their own scrub shop to sell us approved scrubs. I think that they were $20 each, tops and pants. And pay had increased to $15-18/hr.

[rsdsharp]

8. My mother wore shoes that looked like the ones in the lower right corner.

Those wouldn’t have fit her, though; she wore an 11AAAAA!

[Diamond_Dog]

9. Those do not look comfortable at ALL!

I’ll stick with my Nikes, thanks.

[1WorldHope]

10. My grandma wrote them everyday, cleaning house

Or killing chickens. She also wrote a corset everyday. I'm my teens they were popular and I had a cute pair. They weren't uncomfortable.

[cachukis]

11. My grandmothers wore them. One went to flats,

the other stayed true. Both grandmothers were shorter than they wanted to be.
Great reminiscence.

[question everything]

12. More sensible than today's pointy and 6" heel.

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. They look like the old-lady shoes that my grandmother wore during the 1950s.

I'll stick with my favorite footwear -- bedroom slippers.