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Description: | Sara Kettle donated these knee-high platform-soled boots to the Museum of London in memory of her husband Terence Anthony Howard Kettle (29 Jan 1949 - 21 May 2001). He enjoyed wearing colourful, extrovert clothes and often wore the boots to gigs at Eel Pie Island in Twickenham.
In the 1960s, the Eel Pie Hotel was a centre for rhythm and blues. It closed in 1967, but at the end of the decade a club opened on the island that featured bands such as Black Sabbath.
The boots, which date from about 1970, are decorated with cut-outs in silver leather in the shapes of a shooting star (on the outside leg) and three stars (across the foot). | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | Leisure Youth Culture and Fashion | Temporal: | 1970 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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