![Socks_Cover Socks: Between You and Your Shoes](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
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Between You and Your Shoes
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Photo of shoes exhibition entrance](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Shoes_Ex_02 Photo of shoes exhibition](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Sheep](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![needle and thread](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Factory](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Shoes_Ex_03 Photo of shoes exhibition](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
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![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
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![Shoes_Ex_01 Photo of shoes exhibition entrance](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Replica of Ötzi man’s shoe, 2002](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Ancestral Puebloan, c. 1200](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Yup’ik, 19th century](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Persian, Late 19th](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Iranian, early 20th century](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Close up of sliver and gold thread, Spanish, 17th Century](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Spanish, 17th Century](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![English, 1630-40](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Croatian-19th century](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Metohija, early 20th century](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Metohija, opanke](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
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![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Northwest Salish, 1970s](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Iglulingmiut Inuit, 1987](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Northern Afghanistan](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Nanai, 1994](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Mongolian, 1965-75](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
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![Sala, 1954-1955](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Manchu, c. 1880](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Collection of the Bata Shoe Museum P81.335, S83.98](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
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![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Bobby socks, 1950](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![American and Canadian, 1950s](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![apple green stockings](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![“car” shoes](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![American, mid-1970s](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Shoes_Ex_02 Photo of shoes exhibition](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
famous people? Are socks something that you would want to collect?
![Napoleon Napoleon reviewing the Imperial Guard before the Battle of Jena](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Napoleon's Sock](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
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![Socks, Socks and More Socks! Slide](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Queen Victoria's Stockings](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![Portrait of Queen Victoria](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
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![Shoes_Ex_01 Photo of shoes exhibition entrance](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
![How To make a Sock Puppet](http://batashoemuseum.ca/wp-content/plugins/revslider/sr6/assets/assets/dummy.png)
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Toronto: Bata Shoe Museum Foundation, 2021
Original exhibition designed by: Leonard Wyma
Copyright © 2021 Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada
By Transit
From the St. George subway station (on both the Bloor-Danforth and the Yonge-University lines), exit onto St. George Street. Turn left (walk south) for about 30 seconds and you’ll be at the northeast corner of Bloor Street West and St. George Street. From there, cross the road twice to reach the southwest corner of the intersection, and you’re at the Museum!
By Car
From Highway 401
Take the Avenue Road exit and go south to Bloor Street. Turn right onto Bloor Street and continue west to St. George Street. OR take the Bathurst Street exit and go south to Bloor Street. Turn left onto Bloor Street and continue east to St. George Street.
From the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW)
Get onto the Gardiner Expressway and exit at Spadina Avenue. Proceed north on Spadina to Bloor Street. Then turn right onto Bloor Street and go east on Bloor to St. George Street.
Parking
Street parking and paid parking lots within walking distance of the Museum may be available. Possibilities include:
The Toronto Parking Authority’s Carpark 58, the Bloor-Bedford Garage: 9 Bedford Road, north of Bloor Street West and two blocks east of the Museum.
The Toronto Parking Authority’s Carpark 205: 465 Huron Street, north of Bloor Street West and one block west of the Museum
Counting down to the opening of our newest exhibition, The Great Divide: Footwear in the Age of Enlightenment.
Do you have your tickets yet?