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Shoes

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Pair of women's oxford-style shoes of black cotton velveteen, lined with red kid leather. The throat and facings are edged with black leather cut with one scalloped edge, and there are black leather heel caps that extend to quarter-vamp seam, which is covered with black silk ribbon. Laces through five pairs of metal eyelets. Rounded toe, embroidered with red, yellow, blue, and green in possible strawberry motif; straight sole, stamped with "2" and "WARRANTED / SOLE LEATHER / COUNTERS", with short stacked heel. Machine sewn.

G2007.074a-b

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Adult, Female

Footwear

Historic Costume

Shoes

Female

Velveteen

Cotton

Kid Leather

Black

1881 - 1890

19th Century

Late 19th Century

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