[HIGHLIGHTS] Who are you “Mary Jane”? These sandals that have not always dressed well-behaved young girls

Charles VII, Françoise Hardy, Hedi Slimane and today's girls love these flat or low-heeled shoes that we also call babies. The Americans called them “Mary Jane”.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the round-toed shoe with strap was decorated with cute stitching in the shape of flowers. The leader of the genre is none other than the British Start-Rite, established since 1792 in the city of Norwich. But it is in the United States that the name “mary jane” appears, a nod to the very popular comic strip in the 1900s, Buster Brown.