{"id":5879,"date":"2015-07-20T14:14:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T11:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/?p=5879"},"modified":"2015-07-22T13:27:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T10:27:22","slug":"shell-cordovan-leather-in-1880s-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/shell-cordovan-leather-in-1880s-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell cordovan leather in 1880s shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shell cordovan, the darling bud of 21st century high-end shoemaking, was a well-known piece of ass back in 1880s already. The following story was published in <em>The Boston Globe<\/em> in 1889.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-content\/pictures\/2015\/07\/Shell_cordovan_leather_in_The_Boston_Globe_1889_at_Keikari_dot_com.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-content\/pictures\/2015\/07\/Shell_cordovan_leather_in_The_Boston_Globe_1889_at_Keikari_dot_com.jpg\" alt=\"Shell_cordovan_leather_in_The_Boston_Globe_1889_at_Keikari_dot_com\" width=\"451\" height=\"551\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-content\/pictures\/2015\/07\/Shell_cordovan_leather_in_The_Boston_Globe_1889_at_Keikari_dot_com.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-content\/pictures\/2015\/07\/Shell_cordovan_leather_in_The_Boston_Globe_1889_at_Keikari_dot_com-163x200.jpg 163w, https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-content\/pictures\/2015\/07\/Shell_cordovan_leather_in_The_Boston_Globe_1889_at_Keikari_dot_com-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, shell cordovan was not tanned for footwear use in any extent by American makers <a href=\"http:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=hvd.hnccda;view=2up;seq=644;skin=mobile\">before the 1870s<\/a>. The original American cordovan tannery was <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/newarknjillustra00leary\/#page\/90\/mode\/2up\">R.G. Salomon<\/a> from New Jersey, founded in 1877. If not well-acquainted before, legions of American men were introduced to the peerless qualities of cordovan leather <a href=\"http:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=nyp.33433110019696;view=2up;seq=626;skin=mobile\">while serving<\/a> in World War I from 1917 onwards.<\/p>\n<p>Scan courtesy of &#8220;Crimson Sox&#8221;, links by &#8220;VegTan&#8221;, my thanks to both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shell cordovan, the darling bud of 21st century high-end shoemaking, was a well-known piece of ass back in 1880s already. &#8230; <br \/><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/shell-cordovan-leather-in-1880s-shoes\/\">keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,11,6,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-style","category-footwear","category-materials","category-vintage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5887,"href":"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions\/5887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}