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Slippers

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Pair of women's slippers of kid leather painted yellow with brown dots, lined with white kid and brown figured silk, bound with yellow silk ribbon, and with linen or cotton insoles. Trimmed around the front of the throat with tightly knife-pleated yellow silk ribbon, and with yellow silk ribbon rosettes on buckram backings. Rounded toe; straight sole (stained dark along sides of instep) with short Italian heel.

G2010.012a-b

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Adult, Female

Footwear

Historic Costume

Shoes

Female

Kid Leather

Kid Leather

Silk

Yellow

Pearce, James

Maker

1795 - 1805

18th Century

19th Century

Early 19th Century

Label

On one insole

Ja:s Pearce, / LADIES SHOE MAKER / 32, St Albans Str. / Pall Mall / LONDON / FROM / Little Earle Str.t Seven Dials.

English

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