We, too, look at our sparkly shoes through smoked glass.  From Le Rire, 1912.

"Entrance for all soles."  From Popular Science Monthly, 1921.

"Your shoes, sir."  From Pick Me Up, 1892.

You've heard of the old woman who lives in a shoe, but did you know it was a mobile home?  Circa 1890.

Will he take your sole?  From Jugend, 1908.

Musical notes wear masks while others go courting atop a giant shoe.  From Jugend, 1909.

The ancient boot deities.  From Jugend, 1898.

From a shoe blackening ad, c. 1890.

Fairies rescue one of their own from the mouth of a shoe being advertised.  (?)  Circa 1890.

From c. 1890.

Here's a precursor to Kirsty MacColl's song "In These Shoes?"  The caption reads, "Not in these shoes."  From Fun magazine, 1879.

The "23 Enigma" underfoot: an ad from 1895.

What looks like a precursor to rollerblades is actually a shoe-shaped carriage with a lantern headlight.  From La Carrozza Nella Storia Della Locomozione by Luigi Belloni, 1901.

This is the best image of cats weeping over spontaneous combustion that we've encountered all week.  From Funny Books for Boys and Girls, 1856.

The good luck of a horseshoe can dispel superstition, as we see in The Horse Shoe by Edward G. Flight, 1852.