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When we think about the number of pairs of shoes each of us have today, it’s hard to believe that in the 40’s each person only owned one or two pairs.
My great-grandfather was a cobbler (one whose work is mending shoes) from Luray. According to the 1850 census he was a shoemaker from ValleyBurg. I’m sure it was hard keeping nine children in shoes on a small income.
In the early 1900’s my mother wrote in her diary, “A hundred years ago when our grandparents were visiting they had to go on foot, which was very tiresome and rough on the sole as shoes were scarce. Tb save the shoes that had been purchased by hard labor, they carried them in their hands until they neared the end of their journey, and then sat down on the roadside and put their shoes on”.
“Leather, nowadays has become so common that people wear velvet and suede shoes, and have to wear rubber shoes over them.”
Most families owned a shoe last, and repairing shoes was a necessity when I was growing up.
Many children went bare footed in warm weather. Shoes were worn when the weather got colder or w'hen you went someplace.
A shoe last was an iron stand with different size shoe forms that was placed on the
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