Retro Shoe Fashions

About Retro Shoe Fashions

Retro Shoe Fashions is a free nostalgia trivia quiz with 15 multiple-choice questions with a mix of 10 easy, 4 medium, 1 hard questions. Step back in time and test your knowledge of the shoes that walked through decades of style! A typical run takes about 7 minutes, hints are always one tap away, and your streak ticks up the first time you finish a game on a given day.

A few sample questions

1. 1. What two-toned leather shoe, popular in the 1940s and 1950s, was often black and white or brown and white?

   Answer: Saddle shoes

   Saddle shoes, with their distinctive contrasting 'saddle' across the instep, were hugely popular with teenagers in the 1940s and 1950s, especially for girls.

2. 2. Which brand introduced the first mass-produced sneaker that became the shoe of choice for gym class in the 1950s and 1960s?

   Answer: Keds

   Keds, introduced in 1916, became the standard gym shoe for American schoolchildren. By the 1950s, nearly every kid owned a pair of white Keds.

3. 3. What style of women's boot, reaching to mid-calf or knee height in white or bright colors, was a signature look of the 1960s?

   Answer: Go-go boots

   Go-go boots, typically white and reaching mid-calf, became an iconic 1960s fashion item, popularized by TV dancers and the mod fashion movement.

4. 4. Which Converse shoe, first introduced as a basketball shoe in 1917, became a casual fashion staple by the 1950s?

   Answer: Converse Chuck Taylor All Star

   The Converse Chuck Taylor All Star, named after basketball player Chuck Taylor, transitioned from sports shoe to everyday casual footwear in the 1950s.

5. 5. What type of thick-soled shoe with chunky heels became fashionable in the 1970s disco era?

   Answer: Platform shoes

   Platform shoes with thick soles and high heels were a defining fashion statement of the 1970s, worn by both men and women during the disco era.

Things you'll learn along the way

• ✓Birkenstock sandals, with their contoured cork footbed, became popular with hippies and counterculture youth in the 1960s and 1970s.
• ✓Mary Janes, with their single strap fastened with a button or buckle, were a classic 1950s shoe for women and girls, offering a demure, feminine look.
• ✓Salvatore Ferragamo was one of the pioneers of the stiletto heel in the early 1950s, using a steel rod to support the thin, high heel.