Slippers
Clothing/Dress/Costume
One pair of white kid leather evening slippers with original box. Slippers are lined with white cotton twill (and kid leather insole) and bound with white grosgrain ribbon. Narrow, squared toe; low French heel, covered with white kid. Vamps are decorated with a large leather bow edged with white silk/cotton passementerie and with a metal "buckle" in the center, showing Colonial Revival influence. Two off-white silk moire ribbons are sewn to each shoe as ties. The cardboard box is an elongated trapezoid and is covered with a purple-black, shiny paper with a moire pattern. The inside is lined with old yellow tissue. One end has two paper labels pasted on top of each other. The lower one is black and white, with the notations, "1 Pair White Kid Slippers / Size 4 Width, M" and the top label is printed in blue with the store name and location: "Eagle Shoe Store./Hewes & McCann...Cincinnati." The box lid is separate and missing its sides.
2004.131.20
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Footwear
Adult, Female
Historic Costume
Shoes
Female
Leather
Cotton
White
Ribbon
moire
Silk
White
Hewes & McCann
1870 - 1880
19th Century
Mid 19th Century
Cincinnati
Ohio
United States of America
North America
Box dimensions
2-3/4 in
4-3/4 in
10 in
Box dimensions are given
Shoe dimensions
1.25 in heel
4