I mentioned owning this cover to a few people that collected funeral homes and shoes during last weeks RMS convention and all said they'd never seen nor heard of it before. Well, here it is folks, the Practical Burial Footwear cover I'd been talking about. Patented in October 1942 by Charles F. Schulte, the patent states:
"In the manufacture of burial shoes, certain special requirements arise which depart substantially from normal shoemaking practice. The present invention contemplates and fulfills these requirements."The internet being the amazing thing that it is turned up not only the photos below, but also Charles F. Schulte's patent description (goes into gross postmortem detail) as well as the diagram to go with it.
Images are from: pandorasparlor.com
I think the requirement is that they need to be ugly. Vampires hate ugly shoes, therefore they wont be able to rise from the grave due to embarrassment.
ReplyDeleteI wonder where they gave these out...
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