MARY JANE MEMORIES
MARY JANE MEMORIES &
The Best Mary Jane Shoes of Fall 2016
The Mary Jane might just be one of the most iconic and versatile shoes of all time. Legend has it the name came from a comic strip dubbed Buster Brown in the New York Herald in 1902. In the comic, a little girl named Mary Jane wore flat shoes with a small leather strip across the front. Since then, everyone from Mary Quant to Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior and Rei Kawakubo has capitalized on the style. The Mary Jane looks particularly chic for fall—with everyone from Miu Miu to Sophia Webster putting their own twist on the emblematic shoe. Here, a timeline of the Mary Jane’s best moments.
1) The Originals
The Mary Jane played a key role in model-off-duty style during the 60s, as seen on Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton.
2) Fresh Off The Runway
Mary Janes came elegantly gilded at Rodarte, in geometric shapes at Giles and in the form of surgery-sweet pastel boots at Roksanda Ilincic at the SS16 collections.
3) The Sex and the City Moment:
Carrie Bradshaw sees a pair of Manolo Blahnik Mary Janes for the very first time in a fashion closet and cries out, “I thought these were an urban shoe myth!”
