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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

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