Transvestite High Heel and Other Fashion Wares Catalogue from Fine Craft, Inc., Circa 1970

Hollywood, California: Fine Crafts, Inc, 1970. NA. Near Fine. Move over, Manolo Blahnik! You have nothing on Fine Crafts, Inc.'s 7" Black Patent Opera Pumps or 7" Deliciously cheesy catalogue of Heel Sandals. For those goils who weren't man-enuf for the towering challenge, there were 6 1/4, 5 1/4, 5, and 4 1/2" alternatives, but we would note that the last option were advertised as a close out sale! The heels arms race was killing off the lower altitude trainers, one might suspect. This folded sheet four page "catalogue" is rife with grainy b/w photos, both of the products by themselves and with models, which we believe, but can't be sure, included both biological women and transvestites and perhaps other members of the trans community. The products were by no means limited to footwear, which accounts for only most of one page and indirectly a sliver of each of the other pages. The company was also peddling nylon stockings, panty hose, its earlier fashion catalogs and high heel books. Adding to the literary tone, if not tony-ness, were the magazines on offer, including genres or subgenres we never imagined existed: footwear magazines, big breast and bottom magazines, along with the less surprising to us transvestite magazines, not to mention transvestite books and new fetish paperbacks. The company being based in Hollywood, it wasn't about to confine its interest in celluloid as an offbeat fabric. Thus it has on sale skyscraper high heel films, high heel and corset films, strip tease films. At last, dress, primers and entertainment the clever body enhancement, which Fine Crafts also has answers to, with its breast insert and jelly kits, bra kits, latex chest frontal wear they dub the "treasure chest", and the final piece-de-resistance, or non-resistance, as the case may be, its artificial vagina. The catalogue has a mail in order blank on its last page. N.d., circa 1970The pages are 28 by 21.5 cm, and they were folded horizontally twice, like a typical business letter, to fit into a discreet envelope for mailing. We do not have the company's envelope. Otherwise, the glossy flyer has light age toning, a miniscule stain or two, trivial signs of handling, but we are comfortable designating it as being in Near Fine condition.