Stylish Classic, Chanel Two-tone Shoes

Stylish Classic, Chanel Two-tone Shoes

‘A woman with good shoes is never ugly,’ Coco Chanel used to say. ‘They are the last touch of elegance’. The iconic two-toned shoes designed by Coco Chanel more than fifty years ago, withstanding the test of time and trends, are still the timeless classic in the fashion world.

The two-tone shoes featuring sling backs in beige with a black toe and first appeared in 1957. This design was inspired by the elasticated sides and black toe from men’s sport shoes. The two-tone shoes were a very pure design. The beige melted into the whole and lengthened the leg. A little elastic on the low-cut inner side adapted to the shape of the foot to adjust its every tension and follow its movement.

And later Coco Chanel further developed her design and created four versions of two-tone shoes that you can wear anywhere. With four pairs of shoes, you can go around the world and go around the clock! One pair of beige and black sandals for any occasion, a pair of beige and gold sandals for the evening, a pair of beige and brown sandals for the day time in a sporty version and beige and blue for the day in the summer.

Coco Chanel wasn’t just the great catalyst for change in women’s fashion in the 20th century, she was also its most subversive figure. Mischievous and always out to shock, she simplified female dress by ignoring what women thought they wanted and giving them what she knew they should have: a new dress code based, of all things, on the way men dressed. It was a sensational move, considered revolutionary when she made it in the 1920s.

Nowadays a lot of celebrities are the big fans of Chanel two-tone shoes, such as Catherine Deneuve, Romy Schneider, Jeanne Moreau and Dephine Seyrig. And this design has widely employed by Karl Lagerfeld for walking shoes, boots, sandals, ballet shoes and so on. The legend of two-tone shoes is continuing.

By: Tommy Martin

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