And so To Bed

I’m almost ready to put my Bedlington Terrier/ Alexander McQueen historical shoe study to bed, so to speak.

The above image is seventeenth-century French, and exhibits some of that pronounced slope.

Below is a series of English shoes, with the one of the far right most closely approximating McQueen’s silhouette.

And here’s a forerunner of a Beatles boot, but it is vaguely Bedlington, with the silk fluff on the vamp: