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A shoe so innocent it became a comic strip, then a slang word for weed.
means A style of low-cut shoe, typically with a rounded toe and a single strap fastening across the instep, traditionally worn by children and especially associated with girls.
from Named after Mary Jane, a character in Richard Outcault's early-20th-century comic strip 'Buster Brown,' whose strapped shoes the cartoonist and the Brown Shoe Company turned into a wildly popular and enduring footwear brand. The unrelated slang sense for marijuana is generally thought to be a playful Anglicized echo of the Spanish 'marihuana,' the two names colliding by pure coincidence of sound.
- comic origin
- Named after a 1900s Buster Brown comic character
- strap defines it
- One bar across the foot makes it a Mary Jane
- spider-man
- Peter Parker's redheaded love, Mary Jane Watson
- double meaning
- Also vintage slang for marijuana
- never out
- Worn by toddlers, punks, and runway models alike
mary jane watson — spider-man's love interest in marvel comics, debuted 1966
mary jane shoe — buckled low-heeled shoe style with a strap across the instep, popular since early 1900s