Slippers
An attractive and unusual design specific to its period distinguishes this pair of shoes worn by an infant girl between 1871 and 1874. The high peak at the back is a feature of fashionable contemporary women's shoes. Numerous attractive details - scalloped quarters, wave design of tab, embossed rosette trimmed with tiny buckle, double row of contrasting top stitching, and cheerful printed lining - create appeal in these inexpensive manufactured shoes.
Artwork Details
- Title: Slippers
- Date: ca. 1872
- Culture: American
- Medium: leather
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of The Jason and Peggy Westerfield Collection, 1969
- Object Number: 2009.300.3338a, b
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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