Naturally, contributions, corrections or remarks are most welcome (use: droppedit2003@yahoo.com).

1. The Swing by Fragonard : The original name of this fairly well-known 18th century painting by French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard is “Les Hazards Heuruex de l’Escarpolette”, translating into “Happy Hazards of Swing”. The name could not have been more appropriate! Apparently, this painting ended up inspiring a musical by the name ”Contact”, whereby “the first story, Swinging, is a coy re-imagining of Fragonard’s painting The Swing — that rococo up-skirt fantasy that, here, posits an arcing mademoiselle (Mindy Franzese Wild) losing her shoe…”

2. Unnamed Heroes by Hilderbrandts : In memory of 9-11, American artists Greg & Tim Hilderbrandt came up with this piece painting. Apparently, the one-shoe theme was selected to depict the helpless and defenseless state of the female figure.

3. BBKing : This the cover of B.B.King’s album. “Making Love”. What one-shoe theme symbolizes, anybody’s guess… Contributed by “Nigel”.

4. Faery Lost Shoe: This is the name for the interesting work found in a Webshot Community website. The site belongs to “Dark”, and the album’s name is “The Magic of Faery’s”.

5. Standard Oil’s 1958 Calendar: October page of 1958 Standard Oil calendar plays homage to the girl who loses a shoe in the movie theatre. Borrowed from “Kinja”s page.

6. Saturday Evening Post : The cover of December 14, 1946 Saturday Evening Post pays homage to the lost shoe in the theatre. Contributed by “Kinja”.

7. Children Books: : It seems there are several children books playing with this shoe loss theme. One example is this French book called Bad Loser. The little female hero kicks off her shoes in hurry in order to get in some sort of activity park during local fair. Coming out, she has to search for them in a pile of shoes and can find only one. She continues on for the rest of the day in one shoe, until her mother somehow locates the misplaced shoe and gives it back to her. Yet another children’s book from France is Monster Island. The little girl leaves behind a shoe while coming ashore on an island.

8. Painting from Italy: “Kinja” was kind enough to contribute this painting by an Italian artist called Olivia. Unfortunately, he couldn’t re-locate the page.

9. ”The Missing Shoe”: Another “Kinja” contribution -- painting that appears in Meg Crowley’s Gallery.

10. Lost Items : This piece of contribution was made by a frequent visitor of my page, who preferred remaining anonymous. Apparently, in a recent exhibition by ceramic artist called Ayse Kursuncu, a solitary shoe was included among the household items that happen to get lost at home. She created ceramic replicas of such varied items as a newspaper, a golden brooch, a harmonica, a backgammon piece, a book, a handbag, and a solitary high-heeled shoe. She explained; “those are daily-life items, totally unrelated to each other. Their monetary values differ tremendously. Yet, when you lose them, their momentary value becomes totally irrespective of their monetary worth. For instance, a backgammon piece lost right at the middle of the backgammon game could matter a lot more than a golden brooch lost a week ago…” Interesting to see that shoe is treated as an item that gets lost at ease.

11. Three Stewardesses Fell from the Sky : The cover of this book in Turkish language has the stewardess on the left lose her shoe. Contributed by”dumo”.

12. Super Heroines: Variety of female super heroes removing their boots (as this appears to be their universal footwear!) is the theme of a Yahoo Group, “toodeboot”. Contributions under photos section include vampirella without her boot, and the following three pages from “Spiderwoman” comics book: [1], [2], [3]

13. Tori Amos: Painting depicting one-shod Tori Amos, by Jen Andersen, taken from his website.

14. Lost Slipper: Under its Lost Gallery, the funky art websitethe art of asbestos has this street posting of a lost slipper. The accompanying explanation goes as: “The Lost Series questions our reliance of the objects we surround ourselves with daily. Each one highlights an item you wouldn’t really care about if you misplaced it or bother about it if you never found it again”. Someone also made a French version and placed in flickr.com (see first link above).

15. To have and to kill : The cover of the fiction book from, probably from 1950s.

16. Cendrillon at Hospital : In the website of this charity (fondationalpabetisation.org), one-shod Cinderella depicted at the hospital.

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