Description
Three color 10″ x 14″ ad for these Distinctive Shoes. Shown in the ad is a picture of a pair off Brown shoes with White tops and areas around the foot. The headline shouts “New! Your Passport to the B.D.C. (Best Dressed Circle)” and asks you to “Step into the Best Dressed Circle with the City Club Shoes,, made by Peters Shoe Company”. The text gives a history of what they have produced including large quantities of shoes during World War I, more than 50% of shoes purchased by the Government during the period between the two wars and nearly 45,000,000 pairs for the Armed Forces during World War II. The shoes being sold at the time of this ad were being priced at from $6.85 to $9.85. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view.
Source: March 25, 1946 Life magazine.
