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Slippers
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Pair of women's slippers of black wool sateen, lined with off-white cotton twill, bound with black silk grosgrain, with white kid insoles. Throat cut high at the back and with a squared faux tongue in front. "Tongue" is decorated with a black lace rosette trimmed with black glass beads. Squared toe; straight sole, stained dark in a thin line around edge, with knock-on opera heel. Machine-sewn.
2019.27.3a-b
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Adult, Female
Footwear
Historic Costume
Shoes
Female
Sateen
Wool
Cotton
Black
1870 - 1885
19th Century
Late 19th Century
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