From Lustige Blätter, 1915.

From The Cat, Being a Record of the Endearments and Invectives Lavished By Many Writers Upon an Animal Much Loved and Much Abhorred by Agnes Repplier, 1912.

From Barnard's 1972 yearbook.

From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.

From Chatterbox, 1875.

From the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.

"Goldfish skin can be tanned for shoemaking."  A diabolical headline from Popular Mechanics, 1931.

From The Campus Enquirer (University of Alberta), 1982.

"Jesus shoes."  From Unknown, 1942.

The 1950s fad of wearing mismatched shoes.  From Ball State University's 1958 yearbook.

Getting the boot.  From The Third Golden Rule Book, 1917.

A shoe with a bird in it?  It can happen!  We previously saw this floating shoe nest, this shoe full of hungry baby birds, and this dandy bird admiring the latest in footwear fashion.  This shoe with a bird is from Chatterbox, 1913.

From Unknown, 1942.

Reblog if you, too, use shoes to stash away your stolen clothespins.  From Blacky Daw by Adelaide Palmer and illustrated by Dorothy Saunders, 1930.

From Interlachen's 1928 yearbook.

They're not exclusive to Oz.  Ruby slippers from Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.

The henpecked husband.  From der Guckkasten, 1912.