This blog page contains many of the classic barefoot photographs of the Sixties:

http://lovelylifethejourneythroughthesixti...4/barefoot.html

Brigitte Bardot wasn't, of course, a newbie Sixties barefooter -she was one of the great ur-barefooters who was going around St Tropez barefoot in the Fifties. More on her later, perhaps?

Oddly, the famous photo of Jean Shrimpton, barefoot in the rain on Kings Road Chelsea, doesn't feature. So, here she is:

http://highlowvintage.com/2015/06/28/jean-...gh-low-vintage/

This one photo helped to foster a barefoot fashion look that was peculiarly English. Note that the dress is fitted -not a Mother Hubbard sack, as worn by many hippy chicks.

Great pics! Wow....

Interesting blog indeed, many thanks for sharing.. I am an avid collector of vintage glamour/sexy/porn magazines, and I love the "barefoot look" of the 60s/early70s.. so you have touched a soft spot..

In Italy we have a pop singer called Patty Pravo who often performed barefooted in the late 60s, and loved to walk barefooted also in the Street.
Here is a posed shot of hers.

There are photos of genuine barefoot hippies turning up on Pinterest, but photos there often link back to malware. So, I'm not giving links.

However, if you are a member of Pinterest you can use the following codes for San Francisco hippies:

15551561192254552
15551561192254404
15551561192254407

Patty Pravo has had a very long career! Impressive. BUT -not barefoot recently, I suspect.

The Bardot, Jane Birkin, Patty Pravo....great pics and great time for barefooting. I think the 60s and the 70s were really a golden age for seeing beautiful, free spirited women barefoot on the road.

Indeed they were.. bare feet were fashionable back then.. as demonstrated by this picture featuring a very young Catherine Deneuve in Saint Tropez (1961).. no fancy summer footwear..
Many female movie stars (I would make a special mention for the gorgeous Elsa Martinelli, who mostly performed barefooted in the 1956 movie "La Risaia" / "The rice paddy") were "picked" barefooting in the street by paparazzis.. most of these shots cannot be found on internet, but vintage magazine collectors (like me) sometimes have the luck of finding some.

Catherine Deneuve barefoot in Saint Tropez, 1961

Catherine Deneuve in a 1965 dirty feet pose:

http://the60sfashion.com/post/56641732022/...ne-deneuve-1965

And rather more glamorous in a photo on Getty Images:

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-p...photo/160697821

PS
Getty Images also has a photo of Elsa Martinelli barefoot on an Italian rice paddy berm while on location in 1956:

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-p...photo/141553984

Feetosopher,

That 1961 pic of Catherine Deneuve is a great find! Thanks for sharing it with us!

I really like these vintage photos.

Me too

Same here --- that Deneuve picture is awesome!

-Hal-

Brigitte Bardot was perhaps the Dea Creatrix of recreational barefooting in the mid 20th century, although historically she was following a naturist interest which started in Germany for wealthy people in the 1890's and was taken up (to some extent) by CoCo Chanel after the First World War.

Bardot is credited with starting what Wikipedia calls the "clothes-optional" revolution at Saint Tropez, and must be given credit for saying "enculé" to the varnished "haut ton" at Cannes and the haute couture of Paris. She was going barefoot around Saint Tropez in the later Fifties (some of the photos of her doing that are labelled "Sixties", indicating just how much of a pioneer she was).

She is a genuine barefooter, who liked showing off her feet and who liked her men to go barefoot with her.

Photos online are almost all copyright, and some are firewalled. Also, they seem to come and go. The following is a sample set of links:

https://barefootjustine.com/tag/brigitte-bardot/

http://mademoisellebardot.tumblr.com/post/...ot-barefoot-and

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-p...photo/104409358

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-p...photo/160748661

http://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-phot...photo/124131483

http://www.frenchitude.co/2014/09/27/frenc...dot-turning-80/
(scroll down)

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-p...photo/166452067

@Southerncrossfire44, @alyfab, @Hal Heaven.. great to know that you liked my contribution, gentlemen..

:lol:

I also suggest, on Tumblr, to check the site Vintage Barefoot...not bad at all. Maybe, for my tastes, a bit too much retro, you can see lots of pics even from the 50s, I'm much more into hippie girls, but interesting, for sure!