Mary Jane Pumps

Welcome to the Mary Jane Pumps web page. The Mary Jane range of shoes offer beautifully fashionable and stylish shoes for all occasions.

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Mary Jane Pumps - A Description

Mary Jane pump style shoes were once a branded name of shoe, but no longer, shoe that typically had a low heel, an open top with a strap over the top of the foot near to the ankle.

Mary Jane shoes were popular many years ago before falling foul of that hideous creeping sickness hat is fashion trends. A victim of the swinging sixties and into the seventies, the design became unwanted and unfashionable.

However, a resurgence in popularity in the mid eighties and into the nineties, but with a small dip into the noughties, Mary Janes as they are affectionately known are now a very popular shoe design.

Mary Jane pumps have become somewhat of an adaptive design with no discernible stylized heel or a style that would be defined as endemic to the name. They are found in all sorts of varieties – an open top with either a closed, pointed or an open toe. It is a common joke among admires of fashionable footwear that they’re called pumps because they help ‘pump up’ the bank accounts of a number of designers.

The oldest recorded use of the word ‘pump’ in the context of shoes suggests that it was used in 1555 when the word ‘pump’ was first used to describe low riding shoes which had no fasteners. The word could probably have been derived from ‘pampoesje’ which is Dutch for shoe.

Design houses such as Christian Louboutin, Steve Madden or Betsey Johnson all have a range of MJs as well as Steve Madden and Carlos Santana. I have to say this, I have said it many times, but Carlos Santana shoes ROCK.

Mary Jane Pumps - Where To Buy

You can find Mary Jane shoes online, in department stores or shoe boutiques. They are selling like hot cakes after making a comeback and having been made popular by the very stylish and formidably fashionable Carrie Bradshaw in the series “Sex and the city”. You don’t need advice from her, or me, to look good but I believe I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve when it comes to shopping for these.

The Kenneth Cole 'Rich N Hitched' Nubuck Mary Jane Pumps in black (50% discount off list price) and the Kenneth Cole 'Back Stage' Mary Jane Pump are quite popular with customers on online stores like Amazon. If you’re looking for a more fashionable take on Mary Janes, then Casadei has just what you’re looking for. The Casadei Mary Jane Pump and their Triple Platform Pump make for quite a style statement.

Robert Clergerie’s Vic Mary Jane Pumps (free shipping) and Arche’s Garbal Pump use the platform heel as a base to build up to a pump that makes it quite worth it’s price tag. If the Mary Jane still feels a little plain, then try out the Casadei Triple Platform Pump which is one pump worthy of any super-model’s feet. The fact that its 60% off the sticker price for these makes them quite a steal. If you’re looking for something similar at a lower price, the Katia Lombardo Women's Pump will make you a very happy customer.

Thanks for visiting our website. Whatever style of pumps you are looking for, be it platform, peep toe or flat sole, you'll find everything you desire from Mary Jane pumps.