Many of us remember Red Goose Shoes from our childhood, but how about Mother Goose Shoes? This wonderfully designed box (and cute pair of shoes too) seem rather hard to beat if you were a nursery rhyme lovin' kiddo back in 1954. Every inch of the shoe box itself-- the lid and all sides-- is covered in cute painted artwork from all of the hits: Little Miss Muffet, Jack & Jill, etc...
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I never got why Humpty Dumpty was so important that the entire royal court had to try to piece that moron together after he foolishly sat on a wall. He kind of deserved his fate, don't waste the extra manpower!
I like the dog that appears around a number of the rhymes -- repetition legitimizes -- and I also love the haughty mother goose. Good images throughout!
While there wasn't a need to put nursery rhymes and their illustrations on the shoe box, doing so enhanced the sale of shoes.
For parents, saving the box would be a reminder of how fast their little ones grew up, for the kids, the box would be a mini toybox, treasure chest or any other wonder little minds could think of.
Childhood, when the whole world is a playground and everything is a toy...
I feel like I've seen that Mother Goose logo before on something, but I've never seen the rest of this. What a stunning shoe box! I particularly love the Little Miss Muffet and Jack and Jill illustrations (though the Three Blind Mice and the Little Bo Peep pics are the ones that made me LOL). And I always, always, love depictions of the Old Lady's shoe house.
And I guess that's the only letdown of the whole thing. I can imagine a kid being really bummed at the faincy wee slippers in that package after seeing the promise of an awesome, brick-soled three-story leather work boot on the lid. It's like opening up the Chuck Wagon bag and finding only dog food.
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