What you are looking at
Red kid leather, low curved heel, red tassels, and toes that curl up far past any practical point. The cut, high at front and back and dipping at the sides, was called the Juliet and was a standard slipper shape of the 1890s. The loose fit and the joke of the toes say these were for indoors: a bedroom or sitting-room shoe, not the street. A near-identical pair survives at the Peabody Essex Museum, so this was a shop line, not a one-off. Given by Charlene Osgood to the Brooklyn Museum in 1965, transferred to the Met in 2009.
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The maker
Rosenbloom's
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ca. 1892
Slippers
leather
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1965
1965
Given to The Met. Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Charlene Osgood, 1965
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Today
In the Met's collection
On record and open to study.
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About the label: Rosenbloom's
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