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Shoe
Object/Artifact
Pair of child’s juliet slippers, deeply curved side openings, center seam oversewn with wide zigzag stitch. Square toes, straights, soft leather soles. Black or dark brown leather, insole of black leather. Pair of metal eyelets in top of vamp and back of heel. No marks. Supplied with shiny polyester ribbon in the holes.
G2007.038
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
1860 - 1880
shoe
child's
slipper
juliet
straights
leather