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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