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Can you place these vintage shoes and sneakers into the correct decade?
This quiz is just for kicks.
There have been many iconic shoes over the years. Who remembers wearing platform shoes, go-go boots or even clogs?
The way certain shoes were advertised were sometimes just as iconic as the shoes themselves.
The quiz below provides eighteen vintage advertisements from either the 1960s, '70s or '80s. Can you properly place each ad in the right decade? "Shoes" wisely!
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Pedwin
Image: Pedwin
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Sears
Image: Sears
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Turtles by Giorgio Brutini
Image: Giorgio Brutini
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Converse
Image: Converse
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B Altman & Co.
Image: B Altman & Co.
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Gallenkamp
Image: Gallenkamp
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Lunar Gold by Jarman
Image: Jarman
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Adidas
Image: Adidas
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Winthrop
Image: Winthrop
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Two-Tones by Jarman
Image: Jarman
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Converse
Image: Converse
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Trax by Kmart
Image: Kmart
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L.A. Gear
Image: L.A. Gear
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Foot-Joy
Image: FootJoy
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Travel Fox
Image: Travel Fox
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Roblee
Image: Roblee
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Golo Boots
Image: Golo Footwear
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KangaROOS
Image: KangaROOS
Can you place these vintage shoes and sneakers into the correct decade?
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61 Comments
9/18. Never a shoe person.
Shoes. I hate shoes anyhow.
14/18, haven’t heard the names Gallenkamp and Roblee in eons!!
9 of 18 not a shoe person
6 of 18 , never cared much about shoes , as long as they fit , wore boots most my life
12/18. Messed up on the men’s shoes.
14 out of 18. Got numbers 6, 9, 10, and 16 wrong. 😁😁😁😁😁
12/18, argh. I especially want #15 & #3. And #12.
Few of ‘em resemble pairs I have.
Few of ‘em resemble pairs I have.
What!? No PF Flyers with the magic wedge?
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14 out of 18. When I was in junior high school in the 1970s, thy had me convinced that ADIDAS stood for All day I dream about sex.
WOW 8/18.... I have no sole!
all of those shoes in the '80's look the same!
The ones I got right were only because I guessed based on the clothing and/or hairstyles of the people in the ad.
Why no Thom McAnn? I've still got one of their ads stuck in my head from 50 years ago--"I wanna tell you 'bout the Jaguar shoe... "
7 out of 18.
12/18. 5, 6, 7, 9, 14 and 17. Very tricky quiz. Easiest questions were the ones about athletic shoes because they weren't marketed as fashion items until the 1980s. Other ones had varying degrees of difficulty, with the toughest being #5 because luxury women's shoe ads never really changed from the 1950s to the 1980s.
I wish the 1977 TV commercial for Sears the Winner shoe with the animated boy saying "Converse makes 'em but Sears gives 'em sole!" in it surfaced on a video site someday...
I failed
I still wear some of those styles. Some of those styles from the 60's to the 80 looked the same to me. I used some of the photos to guide my guess'. Rubber flip flops from the 60's still look the same today....
In the ‘60’s we called those rubber flip flops “thongs.” I recently mentioned that to my daughter and she thought I was talking about another kind of thong. Weird how words change meaning through the decades.