high-button shoes

An example of something that is outdated or no longer fashionable. Women commonly wore high-button shoes through the early-20th century. I'm sorry, Grandma, but shag carpeting went out with high-button shoes—we really need to update your place.

high-button shoes

A symbol of times past. Through the Victorian era up to the end of the first World War, women wore ankle-high boots that fastened with buttons. When the style lost favor with fashion, the footwear became of a symbol of a time gone by, surving in the scornful expression that an old-fashioned item or idea “went out with high button shoes.” Other such “went out with” objects were banjo picks, horse collars, and buggy whips.

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释义	high-button shoes high-button shoes An example of something that is outdated or no longer fashionable. Women commonly wore high-button shoes through the early-20th century. I'm sorry, Grandma, but shag carpeting went out with high-button shoes—we really need to update your place. See also: shoe Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. high-button shoes A symbol of times past. Through the Victorian era up to the end of the first World War, women wore ankle-high boots that fastened with buttons. When the style lost favor with fashion, the footwear became of a symbol of a time gone by, surving in the scornful expression that an old-fashioned item or idea “went out with high button shoes.” Other such “went out with” objects were banjo picks, horse collars, and buggy whips. See also: shoe Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price See also: go out of style go out of fashion buggy buggy whip give (something) a lick and a promise go to (one's) glory go to glory evening of life have all (one's) buttons have all one's buttons References in periodicals archive At their feet--hers in slippers, his in high-button shoes he Double Self-Portrait at Ten or Eleven It's not unusual, the Bags say, for a member of an audience to appear breathless backstage, holding out a pair of high-button shoes, a yellowed lace camisole or an antique straw hat. Vintage fashion shows benefit Goodwill programs We are hurtling headlong into a vortex of change at the speed of light; everything you thought you knew is obsolete; whatever devices you used to manage your company or your affairs, however well they have served you in the past (like those untroubled and predictable times of the 50s, 60s, and 70s), are as far out of fashion as high-button shoes. Thus do we make ourselves susceptible to the get-naked-and-go-crazy school of management thinking. The editor's chair
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