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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

A Victorian device for trying on shoes.

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A Victorian device for trying on shoes.

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago
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  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldM
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    This has generated significant interest and discussion, so I’m going to leave this up, but in the future, please submit only photographs and film on this comm.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      Got it!

  • ripcord@lemmy.world
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    You remain the best, The Picard Maneuver

    Everyone continues to like you.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      <3

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
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    So the woman can’t see if the salesman is diddling himself while leering hungrily at her exposed ankle?

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    Didn’t the woman care about how the shoe looked on her? The device seems to also block the view for her.

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    Al Bundy would have loved one of these

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      A1 Bundy

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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    Definitely wasn’t inventing gloryholes and had to come up with an alternative explanation when the boss walked in. We’ve all been there.

    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      “Billingsley! What the devil are you doing with that contraption!?”

      • oh this oh uehm it’s for ahhh shoes! Feeet! Yess keeps the devil’s thoughts at bay when this thing blocks the vision of anyone using it!! I was just facing toward it to check out the size and the wobbling was me testing the build quality ahh yes!

      “But where are your pants? And why does that need to involve your bloody cock and balls!??”

      • …
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    This is 100% way more reasonable that letting women put their own shoes.

    /s just in case

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      How could she put on her own shoes while wearing a corset? Besides, that’s the servants’ job.

      • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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        Good point. Also, found the time traveler.

  • Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf
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    Glory hole for a foot fetishist.

    • cj2127@lemm.ee
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      The ankle was all he needed.

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    Must have been invented by a foot fetishist

    • Mayor Poopington@lemmy.world
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      deleted by creator

    • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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      The guy fitting the shoe has a big smile, and it’s not his customer service face.

    • Delta_V@lemmy.world
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      who seeks glory

    • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world
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      They’ll never know I’m licking their feet now!

      • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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        “Oh, sorry, ma’am. I am preparing your foot with a warm sponge. I should have warned you ahead of time.”

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    The lady’s eyes were under their skirts in Victorian times?

    • Sculptus Poe@lemmy.world
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      deleted by creator

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      BE NOT AFRAID

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    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Just a single “whispering eye.”

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    deleted by creator

  • ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Wonder what her leg is being executed for? What crime did it commit?

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      It’s not being executed, just humiliated in front of all the other feet.

      The other feet can like throw socks at it or something.

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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      Nothing. It’s toetally innocent.

      (…I’ll see myself out.)

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      Excessive skin exposure

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    Is this a new requirement from the US government for shoe stores or is this about history? I’m really unsure

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    Walking around to test the shoes was almost impossible, but usually gathered a little crowd to cheer the lassie on.

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    I feel like this isn’t real

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      That whole period of history has to be made up

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        No, I think they meant “this is most likely an AI hallucination, NOT something that actually existed.”

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