Oooh yes I remember patent leather shoes.  I had a pair in the early/mid 60s when I was still a teenager.  The toes were p-o-i-n-t-y even by todays standards and the heels so thin that my mother refused to let me in the front door until the shoes came off.

She never missed an opportunity to tell anyone who would listen about the holes my heels made in her precious kitchen lino.:O:^O