We focus on several amazing sewing machines and their utility patents, from the end of the 1 9th century that revolutionized the textile industry, including shoemaking, with exiting, new shoe designs that necessitated the use of a shoehorn and button hook to merely slip one’s foot into an extremely tight-fitting boot that could have had as many as twenty button holes to button or gromets to thread. This occurred during the Victorian Era and during the height of the Silver Craze, when there was an abundance of affordable sterling silver, as well as extremely talented silversmiths. Sterling silver shoehorns became all the rage and aux necessaires for both men, women and children!