Summary

Pair of black leather woman's shoes, high-heeled court-style. They were made by Maud Frizon some time bewteen 1980 and 1990. They were worn by the donor, Prue Acton, in Melbourne to, amongst other events, Melbourne Cup. They were repainted by Maree Menzel, designer, to match various outfits.

Museum Victoria's Prue Acton Collection is of national significance as a record of the career of one of Australia's leading fashion designers from the 1960s to the 1980s. Prue Acton studied textile design at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in the late 1950s to early 1960s, and her parents John and Gwen Acton used their own money to establish Prue Acton's fashion business in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, in 1963. Her designs were soon at the forefront of Australia's fashion industry. Prue Acton was part of a new wave of designers who appropriated designer fashion and haute couture for a wider market. She developed the business into a leading national and international brand enterprise.

Physical Description

Pair of woman's shoes, high-heeled court-style, painted black. Leather sole and inner. Blue showing through cracks in paint, as shoe has been repainted.

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