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Creator
Unknown
Date Created
1860-1870
Subject
Costume accessories; Worn costume accessories; Legs; Feet; Footwear
Description
1860-1870. Evening slippers. White silk satin indoor shoe with a medium vamp (toe) having a recede toe construction (a flat, low profile with no toe box), and a sightly rounded squared toe. The vamp is sewn to the quarters (backs) at the sides. One shoe still has its narrow cord ankle tie. The vamp is decorated with a broad white silk ribbon with picots on its edges, tied into a bow. All edges of the slipper are bound with silk twill tape. The sole is thin leather, completely flat with no heel, which is undifferentiated left from right. Lined with cotton. Professionally made. Hand-sewn.
Extent
Length: 19.1 cm / 7.5 in.
Width: 5.4 cm / 2.125 in.
Provenance
Gift of Clara Wadleigh
Museum Number
434
Publisher
University of New Hampshire Library
Medium
Silk, leather
Contributor
Astrida Schaeffer, photographer/curator
Date Digitized
3-1-2019
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Keywords
Women's shoes (footwear), 1860-1870, Evening slippers, Silk, Satin, White (color), Cord ankle tie, Silk ribbon, Picots, Bows (costume accessories), Twill tape, Leather sole, Cotton lining, Professionally made, Hand-sewn, Wadleigh (donor)
Comments
The Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection digital catalog was produced by the UNH Library Digital Collection Initiative, supported in part by a grant from the Mooseplate program and New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Additional funding provided by the E. Ruth Buxton Stephenson Memorial Fund.
Photography copyright, Astrida Schaeffer.