If it's vintage boots you love, it is vintage boots you shall have!... Courtesy of Charles Guyette, godfather of American fetish art!
What you are about to see is but a small sampling of an almost mythical lost back catalog. To date, we don't know how many custom-made boots and high-heel shoes Guyette produced, or how many photographs of "theatrical" footwear, among other things, he sold. No printed catalogs of Guyette material have survived, but we might imagine something like this:
This image, reprinted by Leonard Burtman in issue #13 of High Heels magazine, Fall 1969, features a pair of Guyette boots and what may be the remnants of a Guyette catalog, as some of those shoes closely resemble those worn by his models in the early 1940s.
But without further ado, as promised, here's Charles Guyette vintage boot parade!
Whew! Vintage boot overload! Still there's no denying the appeal of vintage bootcraft.
Of course, there's a lot more to be explored in the tribute to Charles Guyette available right now! Boots, corsets, ultra-high heels, opera gloves—but, most importantly, an annotated history of the first person to produce and distribute fetish art in America!
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** Charles Guyette: Godfather of American Fetish Art
Charles Guyette was a sexual fantasist, who earned his living as a costumer.
He sold photos of his "costume studies" on the sly. He produced
custom-made high-heel boots and shoes, sold corsets, opera gloves, and
other eccentric accessories. He understood the transformative power of
clothing, particularly "bizarre" and theatrical fashion. He is also
referenced in the new film on Wonder Woman's creator, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, as the costumer for Wonder Woman's real life inspiration, Olive Byrne.
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Reviews:
"If
New York collector, writer and fetish historian Richard Pérez Seves had
not decided to assemble what he knew about Charles Guyette (along with a
substantial selection of images) into this paperback, this influential
forerunner of the genre's better known exponents would have continued a
lot longer as the great unsung hero of American fetish art."—Tony Mitchell, thefetishistas.com
"If you're at all a fan of fetish art ... then this book will be right up your alley." —kinkweekly.com
"If you're at all a fan of fetish art ... then this book will be right up your alley." —kinkweekly.com
"I've often cited John Willie's gals as my biggest fashion inspiration but I'll have to start tipping my hat to Guyette as well."—Dita Von Teese
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Charles Guyette, the "G-string King," referenced in the film of Wonder Woman's creator, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, and costumer to Bettie Page, is rightly considered the godfather of American fetish art. His fetish art operation was the first of its kind in America, dealing in what was then generally regarded as “deviant” European-inspired material. In 1935, he was arrested and sent to federal prison. But what should’ve been the end was just the beginning. Although rarely credited by name in his lifetime, he influenced everyone who would follow him, particularly the publishers Robert Harrison, John Willie, Irving Klaw, and Leonard Burtman. The aim of this book was to evoke the spirit of Guyette—to collect surviving fragments of a decimated catalog largely by referencing vintage fetish publications from the 1930s through the 1980s and reconstruct a lost history. This portfolio of images is followed by biographical information seen nowhere else, and serves as a substantial introduction to the birth of American fetish art and the cultural impact of an unrecognized pioneer.
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Publications referenced in composing this tribute include:
Bizarre Life v.4, n.6, 1980.
Black Lace v.1, n.1, undated (c. 1958).
Catalog C-2, 1957.
Fetishist n.1, undated (c. 1985).
London Life, March 22 1935.
Bizarre Classix v.4, 1980.
Exotique Correspondence Digest n.1, 1958.
Bizarre Classix v.3, 1978.
Bizarre Classix v.5, 1983.
London Life, April 8 1939.
Exotique n.13, undated (c. 1957).
Fantastique Photo Album n. 2, undated (c. 1960).
Exotique n.1, undated (c. 1955).
Exotique n.10, undated (c. 1956).
Bizarre n.9, 1952.
Bizarre n.6, 1951.
Exotique n.12, undated (c. 1957).
Exotique n.8, undated (c. 1956).
Exotique n.16, 1957.
Exotique Photo Album n.1, undated (c. 1957).
Painful Memories v.1, n.1, undated (c. 1981).
Gay Book magazine, Dec. 1937.
Gay Book magazine, May 1938.
Wink magazine, Jan. 1949.
Gay Book magazine, Aug. 1937.
Gay Book magazine, Sept. 1937.
Fetish Letters v.1, n.1, undated (c. 1985).
Exotique n.34, 1959.
Erotic Symbolism by Edw. Podolsky, 1960.
Bizarre Classix v.1, 1976.
Portrait of Evil F-6, undated (c. 1962).
Wink magazine, April 1947.
Bizarre Classix v.2, 1977.
Exotique Correspondence Digest n.1, 1958.
New Exotique Photo Album n.9, 1959.
Exotique Correspondence Digest n.1, 1958.
Flirt magazine, March 1948.
Bizarre Classix v.2, 1977.
Gay Book magazine, Feb. 1937.
Wink magazine, Dec. 1947.
Exotique n.4, undated (c. 1956).
Bizarre Life v.1, n.1, 1966.
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Cheers. —Richard Pérez Seves
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