Wedding slippers

Unknown

1835–45 · silk · Costume Institute

Flat slippers in white satin were the most popular evening and formal shoe for women throughout the first half of the 19th century, although the details of cut, shape, and decoration changed over time. This pair of slippers displays the wide square toe popular around 1840, and features a particularly attractive large ribbon and lace bow centered with a silk-wrapped button, also typical of the period.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1835–45

Medium

silk

Culture

probably French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Sterling Peters, 1924