{"id":55342,"date":"2013-11-30T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=55342"},"modified":"2013-11-30T20:15:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:15:14","slug":"thats-one-for-the-money-the-only-pair-of-blue-suede-shoes-ever-owned-by-elvis-on-sale-for-80k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=55342","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s one for the money: The only pair of blue suede shoes ever owned by Elvis on sale for \u00a380k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/unnamed1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55340\" alt=\"unnamed\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/unnamed1.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/unnamed1.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/unnamed1-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a>The only pair of blue suede shoes Elvis Presley owned after his hit single are expected to sell for $80,000.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic size 10 brogues were ordered for him after he hit the charts with Blue Suede Shoes in 1956.<\/p>\n<p>They became part of Elvis&#8217;s wardrobe of stage outfits and were worn by him so much the soles have circular wear from his famous gyrating dance moves that wowed audiences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/unnamed-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-55339\" alt=\"unnamed (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/unnamed-11.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/unnamed-11.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/unnamed-11-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/unnamed-11-401x300.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a>They are the only known pair of blue suede shoes owned by Elvis in existence.<\/p>\n<p>Elvis owned them for four years before he gifted them to his best man and roadie Joe Esposito during a wardrobe clear-out after returning from duty in the US Army in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994 they were bought by museum owner Chris Davidson who put them on display at his Elvis-A-Rama institution in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have tipped the shoes to fetch $80,000 when they go under the hammer.<\/p>\n<p>The auction will take place on December 6 in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only pair of blue suede shoes Elvis Presley owned after his hit single are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":55340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}