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Popularity began to decline in the late 1780s and the early 1790s. An appeal was made to Prince George, the Prince of Wales by shoe buckle manufacturers in an attempt to maintain the popularity of the shoe buckle. (document) Holland and Hunt (Hutton) documented the events. (Treatise on the Progressive Improvement and Present State of the Manufactures in Metal 1834)
Hogarth's "The Rake's Progress" and "The Marriage Contract" (The Countess's Levee)
However, the popularity of shoe buckles also took a political turn in both England and France. Whilst in England an appeal was being made to Prince George, the Prince of Wales by buckle makers of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Walsall to halt the change in fashion away from shoe buckles, and whilst Prince George did attempt to sway the change in styles, he ultimately made very little effect on the lapse of the shoe buckle which were completely out of fashion by 1793 except in court where George had required his courtiers to wear them.
Meanwhile, in France, the French Revolution started in 1789, and shoe buckles were used as a political statement to show support for the monarchy. To wear an extravagant shoe buckle showed support for the monarchy and was in direct disobedience of the revolutionaries who had declared that all buckles and silver adornments should be donated towards the revolutionary movement.
Design and Production
Expensive buckles were made in silver but the less expensive ones were made of shiny steel cut to resemble diamonds.
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