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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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